Healthy Recipes for Lean Muscle
January 12, 2012
Healthy Recipes for Lean Muscle
Feel like you could do more to gain lean muscle mass?
Well hitting the gym is the first step, but eating right is just as important.
If you’re trying to gain lean muscle, you need to pay attention to your diet. The truth is, diet is a key factor in supporting lean muscle growth.
The main reason for this is that a balanced combination of protein and amino acids (the building blocks of muscle fibers), carbohydrates, and vitamins and minerals are needed in order to continuously gain muscle.
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Six Pack Abs Diet
January 9, 2012
Six Pack Abs Diet
There’s a lot of information out there about ab workouts, but when it comes to getting six pack abs, diet is key!
In fact, diet may be the most important factor. Most of us have some ab muscles hiding under there, because our abs are involved in so many things we do. But the right diet is needed to show them off!
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Healthy Cereal Bar Recipe
September 1, 2011
Healthy Cereal Bar Recipe
When you’re trying to lose weight and get in shape, snacking can be really frustrating.
The truth is, healthy snacking is totally possible. You just have to be smart about it.
Watch the carbs, sugars, and fats and aim for snacks that are high in protein. This will help keep you satisfied longer.
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Protein Drink Recipes
April 12, 2011
Protein Drink Recipes
If you think protein drinks just taste chalky and completely miss the mark in exciting your taste buds then you are in for a surprise.
We’re going to look at 5 tantalizing protein drink recipes that will blow you away and will be a perfect substitute to a snack that just won’t provide the same punch in the amino acids that will feed your muscles.
Remember protein drinks are a fantastic way to allow your muscles to get stronger and grow and at the same time increase your metabolism to burn fat faster even during rest state. I even have my mom taking it so that she can overcome waist-damaging cravings and the results she has gotten has been quite amazing even though she is over 60 (sorry mom for giving your age away!).
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Weekly Diet Plan
January 10, 2011
Weekly Diet Plan
When it comes to a successful weight loss plan you most likely will need a little help developing the right strategy that will work for specifically for you.
The fact is that most of us have been given incorrect or incomplete information about what is healthy for our bodies and what is not. This is why we have developed a weekly diet plan to help you on your road to weight loss and to give you an idea of what a healthy diet looks like.
Weekly Diet Plan: Breakfast
It’s the most important meal of the day! Any healthy weekly diet plan will include a good-for-you breakfast to start your day off right. Why is breakfast so important?
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Healthy Snacks for Lean Muscle Building
November 25, 2010
Healthy Snacks for Lean Muscle Building
There are a ton of snacks out there that have been brilliantly packaged to look healthy and most of these deceiving products even have words that lead you to think they actually are. However, if you take a closer look at the ingredients and nutrition listing you’ll be more often unpleasantly surprised than you will be pleasantly surprised.
We’re going to take a look at three healthy snacks that you can put together yourself and will be devoid of high fructose corn syrup, artificial preservatives and other ingredients that really shouldn’t be in our foods.
Before we get into these healthy snacks how do we classify them as healthy in the first place? In my humble opinion a healthy snack should contain some protein, fat and hopefully some fiber as well. This combination will make you feel satisfied with what you ate as a snack and help fight off any other unhealthy cravings which often are saboteurs of our smart eating plan.
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Healthy Diet to Lose Weight
November 15, 2010
Healthy Diet to Lose Weight
Most of us have tried the fad diets but even if we lose weight it comes right back once we stop eating the crazy boring diet meals these diets enforce. So what is a healthy diet to lose weight and keep it off?
Well, you probably know the answer or at least part of it. The healthy diet to lose weight is and always will be smaller portions or sensible foods. It sounds so boring but it is simply the undeniable truth.
The key to making this lifestyle chance work for you is by understanding what separates a healthy choice from an unhealthy choice. It will also be helpful for you to realize that not all health food is boring!
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Fat Burning Compatible Foods
October 14, 2010
Fat Burning Compatible Foods
Let’s rev up the metabolism engine and burn you some extra calories by including a killer list of fat burning compatible foods. The cool thing is that you don’t have to do any extra work but do the shopping in advance so you are all ready to go.
With that said, I’m not going to let you off that easy right? You’ve got to do the other part of the muscle pie and work on adding a little extra challenge to your workouts each day in what ever style you like, as long as it is different.
Variation is key in success to fat burning and with that said hopefully these foods will keep things interesting in the kitchen and with you trying something different.
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Corn Sugar – Health Alert!
October 11, 2010
Corn Sugar – Health Alert!
This is a serious news alert that I thought I should bring to your attention and it’s all about corn sugar which is also known as high fructose corn syrup. Basically it’s all about the bottom line of some of the most powerful and profitable corporations in America – the soda drink companies.
You have probably heard about high fructose corn syrup and how hazardous it is to your health. The obesity epidemic is rampant in North America and the wisest scientists and doctors have stated that the #1 factor is the large amount of high fructose corn syrup found in our foods.
You’ll find high fructose corn syrup in everything from soda pop to low-fat ice cream to yogurt and of course most baked goods including whole wheat bread. High fructose corn syrup aka HFCS is a sugar substitute because it is extremely cheap to produce and significantly sweeter than table sugar.
But this is not breaking news, here is what is…
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Healthy Eating Tips: Cooking Your Food
October 5, 2010
Healthy Eating Tips
While most of us are in a rush and often putting together the most healthy meals possible there are definitely some things that we do and don’t realize the impact it has on our overall nutrition.
I wanted to provide a healthy eating tip when it comes to how we cook our food based on some new research that was revealed. It discusses the nutrition value of food when comparing heating styles – for instance boiling vs steaming vs barbecuing vs frying vs baking.
You probably already know that steaming vegetables is one of the best ways to cook your food because it keeps the nutrients in. But what about the other methods?
