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This week we have the pleasure of hearing from JJ Virgin. JJ is the author of the New York Times bestselling The Virgin Diet as well as Six Seeks to Sleeveless and Sexy, and is here to show us how eating low-quality foods–even in moderation–can cause fat gain.

- How SANE eating is both the same and not the same for children as it is for adults - How SANE eating is the most nutritious diet available - How SANE eating helps with behavior and attention issues - How a mother’s inSANE eating can permanently alter a child’s metabolism - How helping your child to stay SANE is one of the greatest gifts you can give them - How even naturally thin children should eat SANEly - How The Smarter Science of Slim compares to Atkins, Paleo, and Weight Watchers - What about the Twinkie diet?

  LISTEN: show   READ: transcript GET: free program & recipes This week: - Introducing and the audio debut of Slim Is Simple.org the Non-Profit Nutrition Education Effort - What about the reported mercury in seafood and heavy metals found in some protein supplements? - How much resistance should I be using when I do eccentric exercises? - Do I have to use a bike for smarter cardio or would other machines like ellipticals work? Listen via YouTube   Jonathan Bailor http://www.facebook.com/TheSmarterScienceOfSlim http://twitter.com/#!/jonathanbailor     Like this podcast? Please share it on Facebook & Twitter and leave a quick review on iTunes.     The Slim Is Simple.org Non-Profit Nutrition Education Effort The post Slim Is Simple.org, Mercury, How Much Resistance, and Bikes for Smarter Cardio appeared first on Smarter Science of Slim vs. Calorie Myths with Jonathan Bailor.The post Slim Is Simple.org, Mercury, How Much Resistance, and Bikes for Smarter Cardio appeared first on Smarter Science of Slim vs. Calorie Myths with Jonathan Bailor.

- Studies showing how SANEity heals our hormones, enables us to burn body fat practically and permanently, reduces our risk of cancer and cardiovascular problems, eliminates cravings, overeating, and hunger, and an increased need to burn fat all day, every day. - How to think about SANEity relative to low-carb diets - How low-carb SANEity has been shown to be more effective the more we’ve struggles with our weight - Five studies showing how high-quality SANE calories cause something completely different to happen in our body from a fat loss and health perspective than low-quality inSANE studies - How it’s irrelevant to lose ten pounds if you are also losing ten years of your life - How SANE eating without exercise will lead to more fat loss than inSANE eating with traditional exercise - How Carrie is taking a tasty bullet for all of us - How the best way to avoid overeating is to eat more SANE foods

- How we’re going to transition The Smarter Science of Slim podcast - How Jonathan and Carrie are going through transitions in their lives - Pepsi’s “weight loss” soda - How to protect yourself from all the pills, powders, and potions falsely claiming to do anything positive for your health - How over two billion people eat in a way that is more challenging than going SANE - How to reframe the time you spend exercising - How having diabetes costs about $50,000 per year - How to easily and effectively “invest” in your heath - How SANE eating can save you a lot of money long term - How it’s critical to look at the cost of SANE food per serving - How to deal with people who say snarky things to us about eating high quality food - How everyone already eats SANEly sometimes, we’re just trying to do it consistently - How Dr. Seuss can help us go SANE - How doing what everyone else does will give you what everyone else has - What really helps Carrie and Jonathan stay SANE - How high-quality blenders can make enjoying a SANE quantity of non-starchy vegetables simple - How to simply make delicious SANE smoothies

  LISTEN: show   READ: transcript GET: free program & recipes This week: - How muscles don’t get confused - How muscles do need more and more resistance applied to them - How doing a lot of different exercises is unnecessary - How the vast majority of exercise is unnecessarily risky and complex - How biology isn’t a matter of opinion but rather a matter of fact - How it’s critical to ease our way into smarter exercise - How we’ll start with two short workouts per week, and end up with one - How to tell when you are using the right level of resistance - How over exercising is like continually scratching off a scab - How failure is a good thing when it comes to eccentric exercises - If we can exercise a lot, we’re not exercising smarter - How we do not need to work our arms and abs directly when exercising smarter - How crunches have nothing to do with having a toned tummy - Jonathan’s favorite study of all time that looked to answer the following questions. How much stronger does an arm get if people:    o do not train it?            [untrained arm + untrained legs]    o train only it?            [trained arm + untrained legs]    o do not train it, but do train their legs?            [untrained arm + trained legs]    o train it and train their legs?            [trained arm + trained legs]   Listen via YouTube   Jonathan Bailor http://www.facebook.com/TheSmarterScienceOfSlim http://twitter.com/#!/jonathanbailor (212) 465-3130     Like this podcast? Please share it on Facebook & Twitter and leave a quick review on iTunes.     Trailer: Jonathan Bailor’s Smarter Science of Slim The post Ep.32 – Abs & Intelligent Exercise – Your 7 Day Smarter Exercise Program appeared first on Smarter Science of Slim vs. Calorie Myths with Jonathan Bailor.The post Ep.32 – Abs & Intelligent Exercise – Your 7 Day Smarter Exercise Program appeared first on Smarter Science of Slim vs. Calorie Myths with Jonathan Bailor.

  LISTEN: show   READ: transcript GET: free program & recipes - How we increase the quality of cardio the same way we increase the quality of resistance training - The actual difference between cardio and resistance training - How it doesn’t matter what you do, it just matters how much resistance you use - How to increase the quality of cardio without having to move any faster - How to increase intensity while also increasing safety - How smarter cardio is easier to get started with than smarter resistance training - How less expensive mechanized stationary bikes are ideal for smarter cardio - How the more fun an exercise is the less effective it is at fat burning - Why traditional cardio is useless from a long-term fat loss perspective - How smarter interval training can be done by everyone - How smarter exercise will work muscle fibers you have never worked in your whole life - How smarter exercise will work muscle fibers that control your fat-burning hormones - How smarter exercise does everything traditional cardio does and much more Listen via YouTube Jonathan Bailor http://www.facebook.com/TheSmarterScienceOfSlim http://twitter.com/#!/jonathanbailor (212) 465-3130 Like this podcast? Please share it on Facebook & Twitter and leave a quick review on iTunes. Trailer: Jonathan Bailor’s Smarter Science of Slim The post Ep.31 – Smarter Cardio 101 – How Get More Out of Less Cardio appeared first on Smarter Science of Slim vs. Calorie Myths with Jonathan Bailor.The post Ep.31 – Smarter Cardio 101 – How Get More Out of Less Cardio appeared first on Smarter Science of Slim vs. Calorie Myths with Jonathan Bailor.

  LISTEN: show   READ: transcript GET: free program & recipes Welcome to another “bonus” episode of The Smarter Science of Slim podcast. A lot of readers and listeners have noticed that there’s quite a bit of Smarter Science of Slim activity going around the world and web, and have emailed asking for one place they could get all things Smarter Science of Slim…at least from an audio perspective. So here we go! Between “standard” SSoS podcast episodes I’ll share SSoS interviews etc. from all around the world and web. I hope these are helpful…and heck, if they’re not, or if they become repetitive (interviewers tend to ask me similar questions), feel free to skip them :) For this week, here’s an interview I did with Ben Greenfield. Get-Fit Guy’s Guide to Achieving Your Ideal Body: A Workout Plan for Your Unique Shape (Quick & Dirty Tips)     Jonathan Bailor http://www.facebook.com/TheSmarterScienceOfSlim http://twitter.com/#!/jonathanbailor   Transcript Jonathan Bailor-  Hey everyone, happy to have another Smarter Science of Slim “bonus” podcast.  This week I’m actually really, really excited to talk with a guy who has a special place in my heart.  His name is Ben Greenfield – just an awesome podcaster and blogger.  But even more importantly than that, someone who supported the Smarter Science of Slim back in the early, early days.  Actually Ben recorded a podcast with me -the first ever podcast I recorded- even a year before The Smarter Science of Slim came out.  So, Ben saw something that he liked and was there to support.  So, wanted to give Ben a shout-out here and provide any support we can offer him.  Ben, how ya doing today?   Ben Greenfield-  Good.  Way back in the dinosaur days, huh, man?   Jonathan- Totally!  I feel like we were communicating via the strings with the cans on either end and now we have Skype.   Ben- Yeah, technology has come a long way.  My computer no longer fills up my entire office.  It’s this small portal sitting on my desk – it’s crazy.    Jonathan- Speaking of technology, I know one thing you’ve had a lot of personal success with, and that I get a lot of questions about and I was hoping you could tell us about, is performance.  Specifically, I’d like to focus on endurance performance without eating a bunch of starches and sweets.  Because Ben, you know, that we hear this traditional dogma of “carbo-loading” – it’s really just synonymous with endurance performance.  I haven’t studied endurance performance too much, but I know you have a lot of experience there.  So, could you just give us your take on the avoidance of starches and sweets when it comes to endurance and triathlon-like performance.   Ben-  Yeah, sure.  The concept of consuming carbohydrates as a primary fuel while you’re out running a marathon or doing a long bike ride, is based off the idea of hitting the wall.  You’ve probably heard of that, right Jonathan?   Jonathan- Absolutely.   Ben- Bonking.  It’s a pretty crappy place to be for anybody it’s happened to.  Basically, it’s  when you’re body runs out of stored carbohydrates.   Meaning, you’ve got two primary places where you store carbohydrate – your liver and your muscles.  Once you deplete all that carbohydrate, which typically takes about two hours or so of moderate aerobic exercise, you start to get dizzy, weak, light-headed, and your performance suffers.  The answer to that, especially back in the marathoning days of the 80’s and on forward even to today, is that you eat a higher carbohydrate diet – so you always have your liver glycogen stores and your muscle glycogen stores topped off.  That works – you will be able to perform pretty well when you are keeping your glycogen levels topped off.  But there’s a health trade off.   Meaning that when you are constantly elevating your blood s[...]

#1. Which concept of traditional weight loss did you find the most difficult to dispel? #2. What are the less-SANE (or, dare I say, inSANE) foods that were the hardest for you to change? #3. What are inSANE "treats" or "cheats" that you occasionally allow, if any? #4. What are the biggest "changes" to your diet since you started to understand the SSoS concepts to how you eat now? #5. What do your coworker thinks of all the greens you eat?

  LISTEN: show   READ: transcript GET: free program & recipes This week: - How much resistance to use while doing eccentric exercise - How quickly/slowly to exercise eccentrically - How to exercise eccentrically at home - How to customize body weight exercises to have the perfect level of resistance - The four eccentric exercises to do - How to only use “shared sources” of resistance while training eccentrically - How to only do eccentric exercises when little if any balance is needed - How eccentric exercise allows us to build our way up to otherwise “impossible” exercises such as pushups and pullups - The three phases of eccentric training - How to make eccentric exercises more challenging - The difference between “good” and “bad” hurts while exercising - How to get free in person instruction on how to exercise eccentrically   Listen via YouTube   Jonathan Bailor http://www.facebook.com/TheSmarterScienceOfSlim http://twitter.com/#!/jonathanbailor (212) 465-3130     Like this podcast? Please share it on Facebook & Twitter and leave a quick review on iTunes.     Trailer: Jonathan Bailor’s Smarter Science of Slim     Full Transcription Jonathan: Hey everyone, Jonathan Bailor and Carrie Brown coming at you with another Smarter Science of Slim podcast and this week Carrie, last week we talked about eccentric training. We talked about how we have to exercise less in order to clear our hormonal clog because to clear our hormonal clog, we have to work on muscle fibers. We have to work on more metabolically beneficial muscle fibers and to do so, we use more energy quickly, which means we have to exercise less and we have to exercise less frequently but it’s not something too good to be true gimmick because eccentric training is quite challenging and it leaves us quite sore. That’s part of the reason we can’t do a lot of it and we can’t do it frequently and I promise that this week we are going to talk a bit more specifically about how to actually do it. Carrie: Alright. Jonathan: So we are talking about how to exercise eccentrically. Folks, I just want to give a quick disclaimer, trying to describe how to do exercises truely using the spoken word is a bit challenging but we are going to do the best that we can here and there are some videos from the smarterscienceofslim.com that make this a bit easier but the good news is that these aren’t new exercises, it’s just a way to take existing exercises and do them different, to do them smarter, a general rule of thumb, general steps, remember eccentric means extending. We are talking about slowly lowering weight and the general way we do this and there are ways to do this at home, there are ways to do it at the gym. We are going to talk about the at home stuff today as I also like to maybe have some time to talk about how we can do cardiovascular exercise smarter as well but that might have to wait until next week. We will see how this goes. How do we exercise eccentrically generally? So first thing we want to do is we want to get warmed up and then we want to pick a resistance and again we want to talk about how to do this specific exercise but these are like the five rules, so get warmed up. Step two is to pick a resistance that we can’t lift with the one arm or one leg but we can easily lift with both arms or both legs, so for example let’s say 20 pounds, so we can’t lift 20 pounds with one arm but we can lift it with both arms. Okay, that’s sort of the weight we pick to begin with. Then we lift the resistance with both arms or both legs and when we do this, each arm and each leg will be lifting half of the resistance, makes sense so ten pounds each. Then, we’re going to slowly lower all of the resistance with one arm or one leg for ten seconds, so now each arm or each leg lowers all the weight or 20 pounds. You might again be asking yourself well, if I couldn’t lift 20 pounds with one [...]

  LISTEN: show   READ: transcript GET: free program & recipes Welcome to another “bonus” episode of The Smarter Science of Slim podcast. A lot of readers and listeners have noticed that there’s quite a bit of Smarter Science of Slim activity going around the world and web, and have emailed asking for one place they could get all things Smarter Science of Slim…at least from an audio perspective.   So here we go!   Between “standard” SSoS podcast episodes I’ll share SSoS interviews etc. from all around the world and web. I hope these are helpful…and heck, if they’re not, or if they become repetitive (interviewers tend to ask me similar questions), feel free to skip them :)   For this week, here’s an interview I did with Dr. Ray Hinish of the Cut The Fat Podcast.     Jonathan Bailor http://www.facebook.com/TheSmarterScienceOfSlim http://twitter.com/#!/jonathanbailor     Trailer: Jonathan Bailor’s Smarter Science of Slim The post Bonus 14: With Dr. Ray Hinish appeared first on Smarter Science of Slim vs. Calorie Myths with Jonathan Bailor.The post Bonus 14: With Dr. Ray Hinish appeared first on Smarter Science of Slim vs. Calorie Myths with Jonathan Bailor.

  LISTEN: show   READ: transcript GET: free program & recipes Welcome to another “bonus” episode of The Smarter Science of Slim podcast. A lot of readers and listeners have noticed that there’s quite a bit of Smarter Science of Slim activity going around the world and web, and have emailed asking for one place they could get all things Smarter Science of Slim…at least from an audio perspective.   So here we go!   Between “standard” SSoS podcast episodes I’ll share SSoS interviews etc. from all around the world and web. I hope these are helpful…and heck, if they’re not, or if they become repetitive (interviewers tend to ask me similar questions), feel free to skip them :)   For this week, here’s the second interview I did with Leslie.     Jonathan Bailor http://www.facebook.com/TheSmarterScienceOfSlim http://twitter.com/#!/jonathanbailor     Like this podcast? Please share it on Facebook & Twitter and leave a quick review on iTunes.   Trailer: Jonathan Bailor’s Smarter Science of Slim The post Bonus 13: JB Back on Holy Hormones appeared first on Smarter Science of Slim vs. Calorie Myths with Jonathan Bailor.The post Bonus 13: JB Back on Holy Hormones appeared first on Smarter Science of Slim vs. Calorie Myths with Jonathan Bailor.

- How to deal with people who say “What about cultures who eat a lot of rice?” - How to base your life on science instead of stereotypes - How there are essentially three types of exercise and how two of the three are great for us - How the one type of exercise that is the least useful is the one we’re told to do - How the higher the quality of an exercise the less of it we can do - How we need to redefine how we think of exercise as we’ve redefined the way our body works (aka set-point = true, calorie counting = false) - How smarter exercise is all about hormones, *not* calories - How doing aerobic exercise to lower your set-point is a bit like walking to make yourself taller - How extreme at home exercise programs is like brushing your teeth with a steak knife - How smarter exercise is like using a Sonicare toothbrush - How smarter exercise is done infrequently and for a short period of time - How smarter resistance training will not make women look “bulky” - How to think of muscular size like muscular speed - How you should not do more reps with less weight - How muscle does not weight more than fat

  LISTEN: show   READ: transcript GET: free program & recipes Welcome to another “bonus” episode of The Smarter Science of Slim podcast. A lot of readers and listeners have noticed that there’s quite a bit of Smarter Science of Slim activity going around the world and web, and have emailed asking for one place they could get all things Smarter Science of Slim…at least from an audio perspective.   So here we go!   Between “standard” SSoS podcast episodes I’ll share SSoS interviews etc. from all around the world and web. I hope these are helpful…and heck, if they’re not, or if they become repetitive (interviewers tend to ask me similar questions), feel free to skip them :)   The Metabolic Effect Diet: Eat More, Work Out Less, and Actually Lose Weight While You Rest   For this week, here’s an interview I did with Jade Teta and Ray Hinish.   Jonathan Bailor http://www.facebook.com/TheSmarterScienceOfSlim http://twitter.com/#!/jonathanbailor     Like this podcast? Please share it on Facebook & Twitter and leave a quick review on iTunes.   Trailer: Jonathan Bailor’s Smarter Science of Slim The post Bonus 12: With Jade Teta and Ray Hinish appeared first on Smarter Science of Slim vs. Calorie Myths with Jonathan Bailor.The post Bonus 12: With Jade Teta and Ray Hinish appeared first on Smarter Science of Slim vs. Calorie Myths with Jonathan Bailor.

  LISTEN: show   READ: transcript GET: free program & recipes This week: - How to sweeten foods SANEly - How to drink SANEly - How alcohol should be thought of while going SANE - How to drink a SANE amount of water - How green tea can help you achieve your health and fitness goals - How drinking water actually does help your body burn fat - How drinking water helps you to stay SANE - How to SANEly sweeten water - How to drink a lot without using the restroom a lot at night - How to tell if you are drinking a SANE amount of water - How to make green tea yummy if you don’t like its taste - How to buy green tea most cost effectively - How to avoid staining your teeth while drinking tea - How basically any calories you drink (other than from SANE smoothies) will fatten you   Listen via YouTube   Jonathan Bailor http://www.facebook.com/TheSmarterScienceOfSlim http://twitter.com/#!/jonathanbailor (212) 465-3130 Like this podcast? Please share it on Facebook & Twitter and leave a quick review on iTunes.   Trailer: Jonathan Bailor’s Smarter Science of Slim     Full Transcription Full transcript Jonathan: Hey everyone. Jonathan Bailor and Carrie Brown here, living the Smarter Science of Slim. And folks, I got to tell you. I just learned some shocking news about Carrie Brown. So here is a question. Carrie just told me she bought some xylitol and xylitol is a non-caloric sweetener which is quite SANE. She told me she bought some xylitol. And I said ‘OK, that’s cool, that’s cool’. How many pounds of xylitol – pounds mind you – of xylitol do you think our dear Carrie Brown purchased? 1 pound, 2 pounds, 10 pounds, 20 pounds? No dear listeners, Carrie purchased 55 pounds of xylitol! Apparently Mount Rainier is going to explode, as she has told me, and she will be able to make SANE, sweet dishes forever. Carrie: Mount Rainier, accept it or not. Hey, no I just took last week’s podcast to heart. You told us to buy everything in bulk – I take everything you say very seriously, Jonathan. Jonathan: I buy 25 pound bags of cocoa so there’s no… 55 pounds though is a new record. Carrie: Don’t listen to him. Let me tell you what I am going to do with all that xylitol. I am going to make you SANE ice cream and SANE cookies and SANE cakes and you are going to love me forever, but I have to have a lot xylitol to do that. So don’t listen to him. Jonathan: I love it. Well, speaking of xylitol… no, this segway is going to make no sense… ha ha… let’s talk about how you need to drink a lot of green tea and water while going SANE – it didn’t make any sense because I was thinking of something else in my brain. I was thinking of other sweetener solutions. I think we have covered this in another podcast but let’s cover it again here. Caloric sweeteners, totally inSANE. So sugar, corn syrup, agave nectar, honey, all that stuff, I don’t care. There is a list of like 55 different sweeteners on the website, check them out, they are bad. Non-caloric natural sweeteners, ‘natural’, ‘non-caloric’ is key. Carrie: Xylitol is made from birch. Jonathan: Xylitol, stevia or luo han guo are all great options, completely SANE. In the middle is artificial, non-caloric sweeteners so these are things like Splenda, Sweet’n’Low, Equal, if you have to choose between sugar and high-fructose corn syrup and honey and those things and Splenda, I would take the Splenda, but again try to go towards the natural, non-caloric ones whenever possible. But of course if you are drinking – like Carrie says, like I say, it’s about being better not being perfect – if you currently drink Coke, drinking Diet Coke is better. Don’t worry about ‘I can’t never drink soda again’. Just go with the non-caloric sweetened version. Here is a good segway to step four of the five steps of helping you go SANE. Carrie: Carrie’s achilles’ heel. Jonathan: Carrie’s achilles’ heel. We’re not talking about sod[...]