Some people think that it is better not to eat anything before a workout or exercise session in order to burn more fat. Research just does not back that up. A recent study with a bunch of bikers did not come to that conclusion.
In today’s Wellness Minute Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy explain where your fat is located could impact your health. Researchers have found that your fat distribution impacts diabetics. Fat in your abdomen and liver areas effect your insulin sensitivity. Diabetics have been shown to improve when they lose some of this fat. Listen right now to hear Dr Fitness’ tips. Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy’s Wellness Minutes improve your health in 3 minutes a day or less. iTunes Follow us on Twitter @FatGuy and @DrFitness6 Be our Friend on Facebook
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On today’s show Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy had on Dr Michael Aziz author of the book Perfect 10 Diet. Dr Aziz is one of New York City’s most sought after physicians. He founded Midtown Integrative Medicine on Madison Avenue over a decade ago. After 
unsuccessfully trying to lose weight himself in the 1990’s using conventional methods – Dr Aziz began studying the relationships between nutrition, weight loss and better health. He realized that an aggressively low fat diet is bad for your health. So he began developing his own balanced approach to weight loss. His progream focuses on ten key hormones (insulin, glucagon, leptin, human growth hormone, thyroid hormone, cortisol, estrogen, progesterone, testosterone and DHEA) that help give you a more balanced approach to losing weight and keeping it off. His 40-20-40 formula (40% of calories come from good carbs, 20% comes from protein and 40% comes from healthy fats) helps the weight come off easy and keeps up your energy levels as well. Some of the tips Dr Aziz shared were: that there are two main reasons people gain weight 1-from emotional eating too much and 2- hormone imbalance. You should avoid foods that have too many chemicals and added hormones. Eat only real foods. You can create human growth hormone naturally by sleeping more, lifting weights and eating protein. To learn more please go to his website www.perfect10diet.com
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In today’s Wellness Minute Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy explain how breast feeding your child can help you lose weight and keep it off. Everyone’s know that there are lots of health benefits for infants when they breast feed, but a recent study has shown that is is also good for the mom’s health as well. Th e results showed that moms who breast fed their kid had less abdominal fat later in life along with lower risks of diabetes and breast cancer. Listen right now to hear Dr Fitness’ tips. Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy’s Wellness Minutes improve your health in 3 minutes a day or less. iTunes Follow me on Twitter @FatGuy
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On today’s show Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy had on Patrick Turpin with one of Dr Fitness’s favorite healthy snacks 
PopChips. PopChips are never fried never baked only popped. PopChips come in your favorite flavors like: BBQ, Original, Salt & Vinegar and Sea Salt. Their two new flavors are Sour Cream & Onion and Cheddar. They are an all natural line of potato chips that have about one third the fat and half the calories of regular potato chips. No wonder Dr Fitness puts them on the top of his favorite Chip List. Mens Health and Womens Health Magazines also named PopChips their favorite healthy snack as well. To learn more about where to find them please go to their website www.popchips.com
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In today’s Wellness Minute Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy explain how skinny friends can make you gain weight. Studies show that when you are eating with skinny people you use them as a guide as to what and how much to eat. So if your skinny friend is binging on chocolate cake you start thinking well if she can eat that then there is no harm in me having a piece as well. So you see your skinny friend (she’s not doing this to sabotage you on purpose) is undermining your weight loss program. Good news though, when you hang out with fatter people they also influence your behavior. When you see what heavier friends are eating typically you eat less because subconsciously you don’t want to look like them. So the bottom line is when you are trying to lose weight hang out with more fat people. Listen right now to hear Dr Fitness’ tips. Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy’s Wellness Minutes improve your health in 3 minutes a day or less. iTunes Follow me on Twitter @FatGuy
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On today’s show Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy had on one of Dr Fitness’ favorite authors. Dr. David Kessler. He is the 
former Commissioner of the FDA (the same guy who changed food labels and took on the tobacco industry) and author of the bestselling book The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite. This book will change the way you look at food. In the book Dr Kessler cracks the code to why you overeat. He explains that the food industry has literally made it a science to figure out exactly what makes food so delicious and addicting. He calls these foods hyper palatable. These hyper-palatable foods have been engineered in food labs to actually change your brain chemistry so that you crave and want to eat more. Restaurants and food manufacturers combine fat, sugar and salt in cleverly delicious ways to make you want it more and more. They have come up with foods that have never existed before and that humans desire with such demand that many of these companies are multi-billion dollar money machines. Dr Kessler explains why you overeat and gives you some ways to stop. And stopping is not as simple as trying harder and having willpower because these foods change your brain chemistry much like drugs or nicotine does. In order to stop you have to treat your favorite trigger foods much like an alcoholic treats liquor. You have to avoid it and avoid the places it is served. And you can’t connect the food with emotional memories. Try to reward yourself and celebrate in other ways rather than eating and going out to restaurants. To learn more please go to his website www.theendofovereatingbook.com
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