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Beef Tallow vs. Seed Oils: You Make the Choice
Beef tallow has made a comeback in home kitchens and on social media, often framed as a return to a more traditional fat after decades of seed oil dominance. Cardiologists and public health groups have pushed back, pointing to cholesterol data as the reason to stay away from it. Both sides cite research, and both…
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What Are We Supposed to Believe About This Coffee Study?
Every few weeks another headline tells us that coffee is either saving our lives or slowly killing us. This week’s claims that coffee reduces the risk of cirrhosis, liver cancer, and death from liver disease. The study was big and followed hundreds of thousands of people for more than a decade. Researchers even ran MRI…
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Is there an age where progressive overload in strength training stops?
Does progressive overload have a hard age limit? Probably not, but a decade-long plateau and a shoulder injury complicate the answer.
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What is the Moderate Method?
Episode one recaps how skipping meals, discovering intermittent fasting, trying keto, and retiring early shaped Kevin’s moderate approach to diet and exercise.
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Employers Passing on the Cost of Outsourcing Self-Control
The rise of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs has created a problem that many employers never anticipated. GLP-1s have evolved into a major expense for corporate health plans. According to a recent Wall Street Journal article, large employers across the country are scaling back coverage, adding restrictions, or eliminating benefits for weight-loss use altogether. Demand has exploded,…
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Exercise Overpowers Junk Food Depression
A new study from University College Cork, led by Professor Yvonne Nolan and published October 21, 2025, in Brain Medicine, purports to show exercise can reduce depression-like behaviors caused by a high-fat, high-sugar Western diet. Researchers fed male rats either a healthy diet or a high-fat, high-sugar “cafeteria diet” for seven weeks. Half of each…
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Why 80% of Chronic Disease Is Lifestyle-Driven — and How to Tackle the Other 20%
A cardiologist recently reminded his audience that more than 80% of chronic disease—heart disease, diabetes, cognitive decline, and even many cancers—stems from lifestyle. Diet, exercise, sleep, and stress management aren’t side notes to medicine. They are medicine. That number sounds both liberating and intimidating. If so much of our health depends on daily choices, are…
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Vinegar instead of laundry detergent?
Dr. Paul Saladino is one of my go-to guys for extreme living. He does things that are the antithesis of moderation. I almost use his advice as a divining rod to know what not to do. His latest advice is to replace your laundry detergent with white vinegar. It seems like a silly idea to…
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BMI is too inaccurate for individual use
I’ve always considered BMI (Body Mass Index) an inaccurate measurement for assessing a person’s weight. I remember seeing a news report back in the 1990s that illustrated the flaw in this measurement by using Michael Jordan as an example. At the peak of his career, Jordan weighed about 216 lbs, and his height is widely…
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Moderate Method exercise routine
I don’t have a goal to lose weight or build big muscles. If I do have workout goals, they would be to maintain muscle tone and to be able to walk and run for at least the next few decades. I’m 57 at the moment, so that means I want to be mobile until I’m…