Are you wasting your time in the gym? If you are not using proper pre and post workout nutrition, you are likely sacrificing much of your potential gains resulting from hard lifting. So assuming that you do not want to waste time in the gym, you should make proper workout nutrition a priority. Basically, if you want to add pounds of lean muscle to your frame in record time, you better listen up!
Do you want to lose fat fast and show off your inner six-pack (of course you do!)? Have you ever tried a traditional low-fat diet with limited success? Well, my friend, let me introduce you to the so called Anabolic Diet. This diet has been a well-kept secret of the fitness and bodybuilding industries and has had very little following outside of these circles. While you may never have heard of the anabolic diet, it is actually the favorite diet of many professional bodybuilders looking to cut down to insanely-low levels of body fat. Granted, you probably don’t want to look like a professional bodybuilder, but they are the foremost experts on losing body fat fast, so LISTEN UP!
Because you are reading this article, I can tell that you are very likely interested in the concept of using anabolic steroids. While I can’t tell you what to do, here is my advice: don’t. Potential side effects such as gynecomastia and testicular atrophy outweigh the benefits, except for professional athletes, of course. But are there safer alternatives to anabolic steroids? One promising supplement for building muscle is creatine, a nitrogenousorganic acid that occurs naturally in skeletal muscle. In this article, I will explore the history and science of creatine supplementation, the possible mass and strength gains, as well as any potential side effects.
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According to USA.gov, the most popular New Year’s resolution of all is to lose weight. Despite the wide popularity of this goal, I would be willing to bet that by February few people have actually stuck to their resolution and have succeeded in losing weight and keeping it off. But in spite of these seemingly overwhelming odds against your success, here are some tips to help you stick to your resolutions and actually lose weight (and keep it off) if that is your goal.
Keeping a New Year’s resolution is a powerful way to take control of your life. In order to keep any resolution, there are a few basic tips you can follow. These little pieces of advice can really help you stay committed to weight loss or any other goal.
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Dietary fat is not the enemy. Despite this, dietary fat has been under attack from various organizations such as the USDA (US Department of Agriculture) and the ADA (American Diabetes Association). These influential organizations instead promote a diet low in fat and high in carbohydrates. So while these low-fat diets are fairly healthy, they do not produce optimum weight loss and help strengthen the false belief that ingested dietary fat directly becomes body fat. In this article, I hope to dispel this myth while showing the benefits and necessity of having some dietary fat.
Perhaps one of the more impressive examples of female fitness is the story of Jessica Biel. While she was never truely out of shape, she needed to really tone her body while gaining muscle for her role in Blade Trinity. By the end of her training, she looked simply amazing. Tone arms, slim thighs, you name it. Recently, she has consistantly been ranked one of the most beautiful women by many magazines, and its no wonder why with a body like hers. While her results are certainly not easy to achieve, her workout and diet plans have been released so you too can work out just like Jessica Biel to hopefully get an equally sexy body.
Introduced in 1992, the USDA food pyramid gave Americans a general guide to how they should eat. Growing up in the United States, I personally was blasted several times with this so called “food pyramid.” We were told that a healthy diet should include, 6-11 servings of grains per day, and only 2-3 servings of meats, nuts, or beans. So, great, now that all americans know how they should eat, we should become a more healthy country as a whole. We all know how that’s turned out. In this article, I hope to reveal the conspiracy of the food pyramid, as well as explain (and prove with data) why it is an ineffective diet plan. In addition, I will suggest a much more effective diet that actually makes sense.
One of the most common piece of advice being thrown around right now in regards to health is that everyone should drink at least 8 glasses of water every day. This ubiquitous 8×8 rule (8 glasses, 8 ounces each) is religiously followed by many people, despite any real evidence to support this claim. With this article, I hope to dispel this ridiculous idea that you must drink 64 ounces of water per day in order to stay hydrated.
So just where did this myth begin? One possible source is a Food and Nutrition Board of the National Research Council that recommended approximately “1 milliliter of water for each calorie of food,” which would amount to roughly two to two-and-a-half quarts per day (64 to 80 ounces). The catch to this claim is that it did not say that you needed to actually drink 64 ounces of water per day; instead you should get a total of 64 ounces of water from various sources, including drinks as well as food.
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Recently, artificial sweeteners have been showing up in in pretty much any type of food or drink out there. These substances, such as saccharin, aspertame and sucralose (splenda), have a sweet taste while promising to be nearly calorie-free. Unfortunately, many of these sweeteners have been (tentatively) linked to numerous health problems, including CANCER and possibly even weight gain (the mechanism for how this happens is debated). But there is another low-calorie sweetener available that is completely natural and seems to be much safer.
This natural sweetener is stevia, a derivative of the plant Stevia rebaudiana, which grows natively in Paraguay and has been used for centuries by the natives. “Discovered” in 1903 by Dr. Moises Santiago Bertoni, this natural plant is 300 times as sweet as sugar but with virtually no calories or carbs! As an added benefit, stevia can withstand cooking temperatures, so unlike many artificial sweeteners it can be used in cooking.
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Recently, you may have been hearing about the health problems associated with a diet high in high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS). But what does this sweetener do to your body biologically that makes it so dangerous? In this article, I will explain the history and the process of making HFCS, as well as the biological reasons why HFCS can be harmful to your health.
Up until the 1970’s, the only major sweetener was sugar (sucrose). But between 1975 and 1985, HFCS began to be rapidly introduced as a sweetener in the United States, less than 3 decades after its invention in 1957. This rapid introduction happened because in the United States sugar has high tariffs, which makes natively grown corn a much cheaper solution. Currently, although we know the risks of HFCS, removing these ingredients from American foods would be very difficult because it would devastate the corn industry, an important American agricultural industry. These high-fructose corn syrups are ny of a group of corn syrups which have undergone enzymatic processing in order to increase their fructose content and are then mixed with pure corn syrup (100% glucose) to reach their final form. Standard HFCS comes in 3 varieties: HFCS 90 which is approximately 90% fructose and 10% glucose; HFCS 55 which is approximately 55% fructose and 45% glucose; and HFCS 42 which is approximately 42% fructose and 58% glucose.
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