Cold Exposure and Calorie Burning – Q&A
The short answer is yes-ish but there are a few caveats; as usual I’ll trudge (hopefully briefly) through some of the physiology. The basic idea is that, by being exposed to cold, the body has to burn calories to generate heat. And there is truth to that. Some of this is due to shivering but there is also the whole brown/beige/brite adipose tissue thing that may be at play here.
DEXA Versus Calipers for Body Fat Estimation
There is a common occurrence online (my support forum has an entire thread) for people to ask for visual estimates on BF%. No, it’s not a perfect method but folks who have done this for a while can give at least a ballpark estimate. You can also find some neato graphics people have put together for men and women online.
Bipolar Recovery Update 6
So it’s been a little while since I’ve done one of these and, since I can’t really come up with anything else to write about at the moment, it seemed like a good time to do another bipolar update. The last one of these was done quite some time back so it’s really overdue. I figure at this point most people have read earlier parts of this, if not you can find them all here. But I’m not going to recap everything over and over again even if it pads out the word count.
Body Fat Energy Availability or Hormones – Book Excerpt
In any case, here is another excerpt from the book, dealing with the causes of secondary amenorreha. For those not familiar with the term, primary amenorrhea is when the onset of menstruation (called menarche) is delayed; as frequently as not this occurs in females involved in sports such as gymnastics, ballet, ice skating and other sports that “emphasize thinness” (as the literature puts it).
