Summary: The Weight Creep. It's not a creature. It's what happens when you eat just a few extra calories a day that you don't burn off. Over many years those calories add up to more fat, more weight. What foods help in feeding weight creep? There's a new study out of Harvard that tracked almost 121,000 people over 20 years. They listed the top foods that helped these people put on extra weight AND the foods that helped stave off the weight creep. Some fitness and weight loss myths just won't die. CNN had a list of the top 10 that are the most often quoted, yet are not true. A couple favorites from the list are Number 10) Your cardio machine is counting the calories you're burning. and 4) You can spot reduce for tight abs or toned arms. In the Email and Comments portion of the show, Sergio wrote in asking about a newsletter that Jeff himself gets. It's called the Nutrition Action Health Letter. Russ and Jeff go over a list of recent articles including one study that showed people were influenced by the names of foods. People ate more pasta when the menu called the pasta “Succulent Tuscany Pasta” instead of “Italian Pasta”. Brian emails asking how he can eat all this food!? he's eating clean, on the top two tiers of the food ladder, and is having a hard time eating all the calories that he knows he needs to. He's not hungry, so what's he supposed to do? He also wants to know if he should resort to commercial nutrition supplements to get some extra calories in his body. Links Mentioned in the Show: 10 Fitness Myths The Weight Creep Marathoner's Diet Nutrition Action Health Letter Recipe of the Week: Frozen Banana Ice Cream Roasted Garlic Cauliflower Motivational Quote: "Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change." - Jim Rohn
