Ripped & Thermogenic to the Core
Thursday, 25 August 2016
By Feature Contributor George L Redmon Phd. Several studies have confirmed that humans show significant (mild) cold induced thermogenesis, without shivering. Tissues shown to be involved in adults are skeletal muscle and brown adipose tissue (BAT). The most likely cellular mechanism in both tissues is mitochondrial uncoupling. Recently functional BAT has been rediscovered in
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IIFYM – If It Fits Your Macros the Pros and Cons!
Friday, 08 May 2015
By Steve Jones Editor-In-Chief If you had the choice of eating a big plate of vegetables or anything else you wanted with the promise of both achieving a lean ripped physique, what would you choose? Enter the world of IIFYMâŠ. What Is IIFYM? IIFYM diets, which stands for âIf It Fits Your Macrosâ, is a
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Fructose A Bodybuilders Worst Enemy
Wednesday, 28 January 2015
By Steve Jones Editor-In-Chief The intake of added sugars, such as from table sugar (sucrose) and high-fructose corn syrup has increased dramatically in the last hundred years and correlates closely with the rise in obesity, metabolic syndrome, and diabetes. Fructose is a major component of added sugars and is distinct from other sugars in its
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Lean up With Mark Robinson
Wednesday, 28 January 2015
By Mark Robinson, Accredited Dietitian | 2013 Model America Champion Nutrition is often made out to be unnecessarily complicating, which unfortunately leads to varying interpretations of exactly what the best nutritional choices may be for one to achieve their goals in health. In this article I aim to clarify the vital terms of nutrition and
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Low GI – Fact Vs Fiction
Wednesday, 10 September 2014
Imagine a categorizing system in which numbers are assigned to foods, allowing you to choose the foods that curb appetite, help shed excess pounds, lower your risk for diabetes, and improve heart health. These in fact are the claims of popular diets that use the Glycemic Indexâ GI diet, for short. What is the Glycemic
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Bad Fat Into Good Fat
Sunday, 29 June 2014
By Regie Simmons In the old Westerns it was always easy to identify the bad guys because they always wore black. But, in the ensuring decades it has not been as easy to delineate the good from the bad. Bad guys donât always were black, and every once in a while a so-called bad guy
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Cheat Meals!
Sunday, 29 June 2014
When is cheating good for you? In most cases cheating in any field is frowned upon, but what about a little cheat meal here and there in a well planned diet program. Do people throw in cheat meals purely for a psychological reasons or are there real benefits to throwing in a few cheat meals
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Lose Weight Now!
Sunday, 09 February 2014
Science has proven that Low-carb diets are very effective when it comes to weight loss. However, as with any diet plan, people sometimes stop losing before they reach their desired weight. Is it because the Low carb diet has just stopped working or are there more hidden reasons that need to be revealed. If things
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H20 To Go
Sunday, 09 February 2014
The body is about 60% water, give or take. Weâre constantly losing water from our bodies, primarily via urine and sweat. The human body doesnât have any efficient mechanism of storing water and therefore we must replenish it all the time. The human brain is about 85% water and our bones are between 10 to
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Green Coffee For Weight Loss
Sunday, 13 October 2013
Green Coffee extract is the latest buzz word in fighting the battle of the bulge. It has received a lot of exposure through the Dr. Oz Show purporting its benefits for weight loss. The big question – Is it just another one of those fad weight loss supplements jacked up with a lot of hype?
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