I just answered a question in Quora and thought I’d reproduce it here. The question was: Whose fall from grace was worse: Tiger Woods or Lance Armstrong? And my answer was: ” I think they are both very different and bear a scary similarity. The difference is obvious: Tiger Wood’s fall from grace has nothing to […]
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It is almost a non-issue that stress, depression and anxiety will change our feeding behavior. The question is: why? What is behind this? This is not one of those evolutionary psychology-type questions. I believe it is time to really understand why we shift to what retrospectively is an obvious poor choice of food and eating
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Watch out for Ursolic Acid based supplements: they will probably soon be abundant. Not only they promote muscle growth, increased grip (and general strength), but affect glucose intolerance, being natural candidates for obesity control. Athletes are already talking and asking, so I decided to take a look. By “take a look” I mean “pubmed” it.
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Deep Space Nine is not that far away: our identity is partly given by our tiny symbionts. Our gut microbiota is as unique as our fingerprints. It influences an enormous variety of physiological functions, including mood (and, why not, cognition?). For the non-nerds, Deep Space Nine is the last Star Trek series, known as “the
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The week before, my friend and nutritionist Rodolfo Peres asked me to send him my diet journal. Not surprisingly, the day I created the journal spreadsheet and started recording data, my eating habits changed dramatically and very soon I noticed I had lost weight. I did not measure it, but probably mostly fat tissue –
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The week before, my friend and nutritionist Rodolfo Peres asked me to send him my diet journal. Not surprisingly, the day I created the journal spreadsheet and started recording data, my eating habits changed dramatically and very soon I noticed I had lost weight. I did not measure it, but probably mostly fat tissue –
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Powerlifting is a multi-federation sport. That means it has multiple governing or sanctioning bodies. While this is an inevitable trend (and, as I argue, a healthy one) in non-Olympic sports, the existence of a neutral, ecumenical space is important to preserve the sport itself, to promote critical decision making by members of the community
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(I sent this to JSTOR and to the Attorney’s office) To whom it may concern: I wonder how you will live your irrelevant lives knowing that your stupid actions induced an extraordinary, brilliant and ETHICAL human being like Aaron H. Swartz to commit suicide. Whatever the mental condition he had was only a vulnerability to
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On October 5, 2012, Gene and Ame Rychlak created the campaign “Power Against Violence and Abuse”. Their mission is as simple and complex as powerlifting itself: to confront all forms of abuse. Abuse, by definition, is an act of violence that takes place between asymmetric players: an adult against a child or an elderly person,
Surviving suicide, rape and abuse through powerlifting: my story Read More »
