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One patient (W.H.) started off weighing 325 pounds (147 kilograms) and taking three blood pressure tablets. Over the next fourteen days, he would subsist on nothing but water, tea, coffee and a multivitamin. He found the first two days difficult, but then to his astonishment, his hunger simply vanished. After losing 24 pounds (11 kilograms) in the

The Ancient Greeks understood that both the mind and body must be exercised.

The low-fat diet was a complete failure.

Kelly has done standing backflips at a lean 230 pounds. At the same weight, he completed an ultra-marathon with no training runs longer than 5K, courtesy of Brian MacKenzie (page 92). Kelly has also power cleaned 365 pounds, but he has a bum wrist and catches the weight with one arm bent across his chest like a salute.

decision fatigue, and ego depletion.

The results were telling. The “Eat Less, Move More” group started out terrifically, averaging more than 4 pounds (1.8 kilograms) of weight loss over the first year. By the second year, the weight started to be regained, and by the end of the study, there was no significant difference between the two groups. Did these women perhaps replace some of

Raichlen, D. & Alexander, G. 2020. Why your brain needs exercise. Scientific American 322(1), 26 – 31.