John Barban is a professional strength and conditioning coach who has completed graduate studies in both exercise and nutrition. He has extensive experience designing nutritional supplements and has developed his trademark workout for women www.6minutecircuits.com. John is an expert contributor to www.efit-today.com and recomends the diet program Eat Stop Eat (www.eatstopeat.com), and believes it is the best new diet for easy and effective weight loss.

A commonly held belief about food is that you need to eat frequent meals to keep your metabolism going and to keep burning calories. I'm not exactly sure where this idea came from but it makes absolut...

Anything you do in your life that provides a sense of gratitude and is really worth something is usually done with a sense of purpose behind it. Things of little or no value have no purpose behind the...

If you are trying to lose weight but have been unsuccessful so far, check to see if you are making any of these common mistakes. 1. Eating too Often -- it is a commonly held belief that eating multipl...

Appetite and hunger cravings seem to be one of the new villains in the battle against weight gain and obesity. Nutritional supplement companies, pharmaceutical companies and many new diet books are al...

In your quest to lose weight there are only two things you can do. The first is to eat fewer calories, the second is to exercise. This sounds simple, but not all exercises are made the same. I would s...