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Nobody Has Ever Gotten Skinny By Doing Situps,Ever
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] One of the largest myths surrounding the search for a slimmer waistline is the proclaimed benefits of abdominal exercises. We are surrounded by infomercials touting drastic weight loss due to ab-rollers, sit-up benches, and ab chairs. The quick fixes and testimonials surrounding such machines are almost completely false. The benefits of a rigorous abdominal exercise routine are almost nonexistent in the battle to slim down and lose fat. Simply put: Sit-ups and ab-crunches will not make you skinny. This myth ranks as one of the most overlooked and misunderstood in the fitness world, yet the market for abdominal machines continues to grow. Here is why.

The Salad Trap: Why Salads are Usually the Devil
[Food-and-Drink:Salads] Fresh, green, loaded with vegetables and all our other favorite toppings, the salad has satisfied dieters and non-dieters alike for years. Dieters always turn to the salad as a clear indicator that their new "diet" has commenced. A newly dieting person sometimes will comment on how they are "trying to eat more salads and fresh vegetables" instead of their former fatty fares. They proudly order up these green, leafy bowls of goodness with all certainty that their health will improve and their waistlines will diminish. I see these seemingly proud types of people almost daily, yet usually it's with some trepidation.

The Liquid Diet: How Alcohol Can Destroy a Diet
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] The average one ounce shot of hard liquor contains about 70-75 calories with some darker liquors like bourbon and brandy a little higher. Add one shot of liquor to a few ounces of tonic or cola and the calorie count is in the hundreds. And those exotic pina coladas or margaritas can run even higher than that. By any measure, one drink wont ruin any diet, yet one drink is rarely a common occurrence.

Here's To Your Everyday Habits
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] What I want to unlock in the fat mentality is how the patterns of overweight people differ so starkly from those of their slimmer counterparts. As a matter of fact, it is what drove me to research and produce this book. Time and time again I would see overweight people publicly displaying exactly how they got overweight in the first place. It was like clockwork, I would see overweight people making the same identical mistakes for everyone to see. Unfortunately, the mistakes they were sometimes making were so elusive that even they themselves had no idea what they were doing wrong.

The French Paradox: Why the French Don't Get Fat and Americans Do
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] It is often observed that the French, among other cultures, enjoy a paradox that is anything but imaginable to most Americans. The "French Paradox", as it has been labeled, illustrates how the French eat food that tends to be overwhelmingly rich, buttery, and fattening, yet their health statistics reflect an overall thin, healthy, and long-lived population. Conversely, the United States shares the French's love of decadent and tasty food, yet suffer from an entirely different fate of an overweight and unhealthy culture of people.

"My Sandwich is a Little Dry": The Habits of Fat People
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] The Most Horrible Habits of Fat People

Don't Blame The Deadline
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Eating and Stress: What Happens When Fat People Combine the Two