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By texxmezz on February 4th, 2007

Marching Into The Peace Corps, pt 21: Junk Science and Fitness

I am amazed at how much junk science exists when it comes to the diet and fitness world. The strange thing about this is…if this amount of bad information floated around inside any other industry (banking, insurance, security), there would be heads rolling out the door. It seems when it comes to the most precious thing we have – our bodies – the lousier the information becomes.

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By texxmezz on January 15th, 2007

Marching Into The Peace Corps, pt 15: It’s A Move It To Lose It Kind Of World

There’s a certain amount of subliminal messages being sent by the diet pill industry: “take our product and you’ll be skinny and ripped”. On some rational level we know this is false, but our emotional side opens the wallet and plunks down the cash. You cannot get great muscle tone from a bottle, only from working out. You have to move and sweat if you want jaws to drop and tongues to wag as you walk by, and that’s a fundamental truth.

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