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Multi-Vitamins for Better Health. Or Death. Whatever.

Recently my friend N joined a gym. As part of his new gym experience, he got a meet-n-greet with a personal trainer. This gym, being of the swanky variety, offered him something better than a New Gym Smell car freshener. (No, I’ve never heard of tho…

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Does Caffeine Help or Hinder Weight Loss?

Photo Credit: Fail BlogYou don’t have to be a rocket scientist to know that diet pills don’t work. If they did, we’d all look like Carmen Electra and spend our nights partying away with the Zantrex dancers. And yet they sell. So who’s buying? Women…

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Seasonal Affective Disorder: Is Vitamin D the Cure?

Life is full of difficult choices. Take tonight for instance. The cold weather necessitated me pulling out all the workout pants I’d packed away in the spring that, courtesy of my I’m-totally-trying-not-to-obsess-about weight gain, don’t fit like the…

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Don’t Let “D” Stand for Deficiency

Remember how we’re always going off about the importance of getting enough vitamin D in your life? How outdoor activity - and vitamin D producing sunlight - is important for any Primal Blueprinter? It seems some recent scientific research is again making this point for us.
Vitamin D and Parkinson’s

Come to think of it, I’ve never [...]

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Don’t Let “D” Stand for Deficiency

Remember how we’re always going off about the importance of getting enough vitamin D in your life? How outdoor activity - and vitamin D producing sunlight - is important for any Primal Blueprinter? It seems some recent scientific research is again making this point for us.
Vitamin D and Parkinson’s

Come to think of it, I’ve never [...]

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How to Stay Healthy When You Are Dieting

So many of us get caught up in the push to lose weight that we let our health slide. There are a few ways that you can make sure that you are staying healthy when you’re loosing weight, and they’re not hard to do at all. You will need to see a doctor or a [...]

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Dear Mark: Is Flax Bad?

Dear Mark,
I’ve been researching flax and am ready to pull the plug on my dedicated flaxseed grinder. The kicker was seeing flaxseeds associated with prostate cancer. What’s your take?
Thanks to reader Clare for the thoughtful correspondence on flax. This is exactly why I love doing this blog. Research continues to unfold, and the conversation [...]

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Would You Pay $48 A Week To Be Thin?

My Fave Target Commercial. What? Like you don’t have one.I was recently accosted in Target. Really it was my own fault. Gym Buddy Allison and I were in the Sports Nutrition aisle looking for gels to take on our long runs. (And, let’s be honest, to …

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2nd Annual Maine Coach & Athlete Cross Country Clinic (Part I: Nutrition Basics & Fueling for Performance)

The 2nd annual Maine Coach and Athlete Cross Country Clinic was on August 18th, 2008 at the University of Southern Maine. This is the second part of my reporting on the clinic; the first part was about injury prevention and treatment. This part covers the presentation on nutrition and fueling.
Nutrition Basics & Fueling for [...]

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Can the Alli Diet Pill Boost your Weight Loss?

Is Alli the magic weight loss diet pill we’ve been looking for?
Despite the fact that most of us understand that losing weight is the product of fewer calories in and more calories burned, it doesn’t mean that we don’t wish weight loss came in an easy pill form. Alli is one of the first over-the-counter [...]

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Can Creatine Take Your Workout To The Next Level?

Over the counter supplements range from great little finds to worthless junk, and there is a lot of gray area in between. If you’re looking for a quality supplement that will actually get some results, creatine may be something to look into. As with any health supplement, you should always check with your doctor before [...]

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Beyond the ABCs of vitamin lore

[By Merry]For some reason this flickr photo makes me want to sing “Let the sunshine in!” …This is a rant.It is only a rant.If this had been a real, informative post, it would have been written by Crabby.It is only a rant. Please remain calm.Okay, ye…

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Dear Mark: Primal Compromises for Athletes

Post-Marathon Carb Mountain
I’ve been getting a slew of emails lately from marathon runners and other endurance athletes among our group, many in response to our 30-Day Primal Health Challenge. Questions have run the gamut but generally get at how to combine endurance training and Primal Blueprint methodology:
How do I combine a low carb diet with [...]

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5 Supplements You Need While You’re Dieting

Whenever you start a diet you’re going to need to make sure that you are taking the right supplements for your body. Most “diets” lack one or more of these supplements.  Without the proper balance of nutrients and vitamins, your body can easily feel deprived and your cravings can skyrocket out of control. There are [...]

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Diet Pills: Safe and Effective?

In recent years, diet pills containing ephedra were under much scrutiny from the medical community. The drug is a common supplement used in diet pills to stimulate metabolism, stifle appetite, and spur weight loss. Even though, it’s been used for in China for thousands of years, it was found to be potentially fatal [...]

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Weight Lost: 46 Pounds in 6 Weeks aka Over 7lbs this Week!

After 6 weeks on the medically assisted weightless program JumpStart medicine with Dr. Sean Bourke, I have lost 46 pounds in 45 days (just over a pound a day… Wow!) This week I lost 7.1 pounds and I am ecstatic to have achieved 109.2% of my goal.  I have been feeling great, but the larger dose of Phentermine was caused [...]

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Thursday’s Real Food Resource: Whole Food and More

This post is this week’s Real Food Resource, which is a weekly spotlight on books, sites, and relevant media that helps you to identify what real food is. If you enjoy this article, please consider subscribing to Almost Fit. Thanks.
Every once in…

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Protein Requirements After WLS

I’ve always prided myself on being an ideal post WLS patient. I take copious amounts of vitamins. I eat a blanced healthful low carb diet. I get in plenty of calories according to my BMR(basal metabolic rate) to maintain my weight. In spite of my anal like adherence to this. It still has not kept me from becoming severely malnourished.

One place I am severely lacking are my protein levels. I’ve

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Where do I go from here???

For years after my WLS I actively participated in the online support forums. They were my home away from, so to speak. These past months many changes have occurred in my life that have me wondering exactly where do I go from here. I no longer feel a connection with the WLS community as a whole. Some believe it is only because of the problems that I have been having lately that have colored my

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Malnutrition After WLS

I’ve done several posts in the past about the need for many supplements after WLS. In each one I have stated multiple times you need to be proactive in your own health care. Do not take it when the doctor tells you your “labs” are fine. Know what it is they are checking and the values. Ask for copies.

The OSSG Gone Wrong Yahoo Group I have recently joined has a complete list of ALL lab work that

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Follow-Up WLS Life Sucks

First let me thank my online friends for their support and concern. I appreciate all of your support and encouragement.

With all this junk going on with me, I did what I normally do….research.

Do you know how really difficult it is to find long term research on WLS? It doesn’t exist. Most I could find was for 5 years tops.

Surgery for Weight Loss: Comparison of Risk and Benefit- Ernsberger

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WLS Life Sucks

I’m in a pretty bad place mind wise about living this life after WLS.

By the bariatric surgeon’s standards, I am a huge success. I lost over 200 pounds and have been able to maintain that weight loss. Is that number on the scale all there is to judge your success?

I eat on average 2000 cals a day. Take multiple supplements each and everyday like clockwork. Yet my most recent lab work has me

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Supplements 101

Everyone reads the magazines, watches the TV infomercials, reads the hype across the internet about the hottest new supplement. Well, let’s put all this on hold for a second … Think, are you ready for this? Are you ready to put a catalyst into your body that fires you up, and puts you on a [...]

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Dr Larry McCleary—Book Signings

I’m in the process of reading Dr McCleary’s book, The Brain Trust Program. So far I’m really getting into it. It makes a good addition to my ever growing library about nutrition and health. I was most interested in this because it deals with brain heal…

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This Week Last Year: Marathon Strategy, Vitamins and Head Lamps

This week last year I was getting ready for the New York City marathon, although that did not keep me from racing. I had not quite started tapering yet, though.

I planned out my NYC race strategy, since I would be pacing a friend through his first one. Our race almost exactly mimicked the [...]

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