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The mission of Lose Fat, Not Faith is to empower individuals who wish to lose weight and/or improve their health with knowledge and internal, sustainable motivation to transform into the person they deserve to be. We do this by providing articles, tools, products, and services from industry leaders that share easy to understand information and guidance. Our core values are honesty and integrity so that we may offer value by giving our customers a comfortable and convenient place to find everything needed to achieve their fitness and lifestyle goals.
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Multivitamin Primer

To maintain our health, we require a variety of vitamins, minerals, phyto-chemicals (components of plants), and other nutrients. Many of these nutrients can be received in the diet. Evidence is mounting, however, that it is impractical and virtually impossible to obtain the amounts needed for optimal health from diet alone. Therefore, a multivitamin becomes important. The question then becomes - what multivitamin?

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Real Metabolism Calculator

The real metabolism calculator will reveal your true metabolic rate, or the average number of calories that you burn per day. From this, you will be able to determine exactly how many calories you will need to reach your weight loss goals.

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Your Real Metabolism

Your metabolism is the sum of all of your body's functions. Pumping your heart, repairing damaged cells, even digesting foods are all processes that require energy. The term "basal metabolic rate" or "BMR" refers to how many calories you would burn if you did nothing but sleep all day. Because you obviously do more than just sleep, BMR is an interesting number but knowing your real metabolism is far more important. Your real metabolism is the calories you burn, on average, every day, taking into account your BMR and all of your daily activities.

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Fat Loss Calorie Zigzag Calculator

This calculator estimates how many calories you should target based on your goal body weight. It also demonstrates an example of zigzagging calories throughout the week.

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The Body Weight Factor

Your body weight contains much more information locked inside than just how many pounds appear on a scale. Because of the close relationship between lean mass, fat mass, and metabolism to your body weight, that magic number can play a role in many important equations. Sometimes people tend to complicate their fitness journey by over-computing using complex equations and trying to reach a precision that isn't practical. Using something simple like your body weight can assist you with determining just how many calories to consume and how to make adjustments when you aren't reaching your goals.

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Coffee and Caffeine

Qahhwat al-bun, the "wine of the bean," is believed to have come to us through Ethiopia around the tenth century A.D. It is now called "coffee" and is consumed by over 100 million in the US and accounts for billions in international sales. Caffeine, a stimulant, is a major ingredient in coffee that is both the culprit for widespread addiction to coffee as well as the cause of its popularity. So how healthy is coffee really? What are the side effects of caffeine?

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Fitness Tip

This gadget provides a healthy insight into weight loss, muscle building, mindset, and more every time it is viewed. It taps into our extensive database of hundreds of fitness articles to give you something fresh and informative every time.

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Audio: The Decision (6:32)

Are You Ready For Change? Sure, we all want to lose weight and have lean, toned bodies, but ask yourself: are you ready to make the changes necessary in order to achieve your goals? The journey begins in your mind. In this audio excerpt from the 5-CD Lose Fat, Not Faith Audio Program, you will learn more about the decisions you must successfully make in order to lose fat and live healthy.

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Weight Loss, Diet, and Fitness Gadgets

This is our comprehensive collection of weight loss, diet, and fitness-related gadgets. Using these gadgets you can discover your body fat percentage, basal metabolic rate, compute your target heart rate, convert measurements for recipes, and much more. As we develop more gadgets, we will add them to this constantly growing pages. What's more exciting is that you can add any of these gadgets to your own Google homepage, as well as host them at your own website! Simply click the button beneath each gadget for options to store them where it's most convenient or share them where they will provide value to others.

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Type 2 Diabetes

Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of diabetes. It used to be called "adult-onset diabetes" due to the fact that it used to typically affect people over the age of 40. Now, however, more children than ever are affected with this disease. According to the National Diabetes Education Program, 177,000 young people under the age of 20 have this disease. Type 2 diabetes impacts the way your body processes carbohydrates. In type 2 diabetes, the body produces insulin. The body is unable, however, to process the insulin (this is known as insulin resistance). The result is that while the body produces more insulin, it is like it does not produce enough because the body's cells do not respond.

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