There are not many “sure things” in life. Almost everyworthwhile endeavor comes with a certain degree of riskand no assurance of the outcome.In the case of chiseling your body into a lean machine, there’s always [...]
Alcohol has been implicated as a factor that may hurt your efforts to lose body fat.Whether alcohol is "fattening" has been a very controversial subject because technically speaking, alcohol is NOT stored as fat; [...]
Unless you’ve been living under a rock somewhere for the last several years, you’ve probably heard about the health benefits of eating fatty fish or taking fish oil supplements. Well, it looks like you might [...]
Last week, I posted an article about the wide publication of the discovery of an “obesity virus.” Coincidentally, this report came on the tails of en even more publicized study from last month’s New England [...]
It never ceases to amaze me how the media is so quick to jump on any study that has the slightest ring of “sensational orcontroversial news” written all over it, or how quickly the publicaccepts [...]
Last year I wrote an article / newsletter warning consumers about body wraps, abdominal belts and abdominal electrical muscle stimulation for weight loss. 700,000 ab belts and $16 million later, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) [...]
8/8/2007 – The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced on Monday that it will be accepting refund requests from consumers who feel they were defrauded by miselading advertising claims and falsifying before and after photos. This [...]
You’ve probably seen the advertisements: “Drink oolong tea and lose a jeans size every 7 days!”… “Burn 20 lbs of fat in 30 days with green tea!” … Maybe you even watched Oprah a few [...]
I have very little interest these days in all the media-hyped stories of dramatic, rapid losses of body weight. That doesn’t impress me, for numerous reasons. For example,weight is not fat. “weight” could be composed [...]
In a previous Burn the Fat Blog post, I wrote about the “skinny fat” phenomenon, and this obviously struck a nerve as many burn the fat readers chimed in with their opinion about how real [...]
