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How to Increase Your Metabolism by Changing Your Diet !How can you increase your metabolism by changing your diet? The thermogenic "Heat" effect of food (calories burned digesting and processing the food you eat) accounts for about 10% of the calories you burn every day. Here are a few tips on how you can burn more fat just by changing the way you eat! read more... |
Don’t Skip Breakfast to Cut CaloriesWhen you’re trying to lose weight, cutting out breakfast may be tempting. You figure you’re saving yourself some calories and you get a couple extra minutes to snooze. But research has consistently shown that the people who successfully lose weight are the ones that wake up and eat! Furthermore, people who eat breakfast regularly have better vitamin and mineral status and eat fewer calories from fat. So it seems that breakfast really is the most important meal of the day. read more... |
Your Favorite Place to eat might be killing you slowlyMeals at Regular Restaurants are Even Worse Than Fast Food food, restaurants, fast food, calories, portions, obesity, overweightA new study has compared fast food and table service meals at restaurants. Both types of meals are larger and have more calories than meals prepared at home. However, the typical fast food meal is smaller and has fewer calories than the average meal from a table service restaurant. read more... |
Cross Training / Repetitive Use Injury Prevention as the Weather Turns ColdAs the Weather Gets colder many of you that workout outdoors and competitive athletes, particularly triathletes, are planning their off-season training, which often includes cross training. I encourage you to follow their lead and introduce some cross training into your fitness regimen. Most of us have heard about cross training, but aren’t quite sure what it is, other than we may have purchased some cross training shoes. Cross training really just means engaging in a variety of fitness modalities so that we don’t under or over train any particular muscle group. Cross training also includes keeping variety in our aerobic training and introducing interval training to improve performance. Emphasizing one or two muscle groups and neglecting others can cause strain to joints and ligaments, as can falling into an exercise ‘rut’ in our aerobic training. Interval training is particularly useful if you have reached a plateau in your current regimen and have stopped seeing results. read more... |
Soy Too Much of a Good Thing?Too Much of a Good Thing? "People are just starting to wake up to this, to just how serious this all is," says Daniel, who earned her doctorate at the Union Institute and works as a certified nutritionist. "So far, if you look at the studies, you'll start to see that there are only possible benefits of this food, and proven dangers." For Daniel, the problem exists in the soybean itself, a legume that by nature is chock full of antinutrients and toxins to ward off predators. If eaten in small amounts (say, a few tablespoons every couple of days) these toxins pose no real harm. The trouble occurs when we consume more than 35 grams of soy a day -- a quantity Daniel argues is easily reachable in our modern diet so crammed with soy meats, soy extenders, soy protein and soy emulsifiers, substances so full of estrogens, metals, sugars and additives, so "toxic," that they are posing considerable risks to our collective physical and mental health. read more... |
Metabolism Article October 2008What's worse than being on a diet? Being on a diet and not seeing any results! Here are three common facts that can be misleading to dieters. Each piece of advice is accompanied by tips that will help you to learn how to eat because you're hungry, not because you think you should. So start learning how to maximize your metabolism and begin losing fat. Plus: Test your calorie IQ If you're trying to maximize your metabolism and lose weight, you need to understand the basic guidelines for eating well. Otherwise, you'll unknowingly undermine your own efforts and ruin your weight loss plan. But no matter how confusing it gets, to succeed in your diet there's one simple rule you should follow: If you're not hungry, don't eat. Commonly Misinterpreted Weight Loss Fact #1: Your metabolic rate drops sharply when you reduce your overall caloric intake and wait long hours in between meals. read more... |
'Good' Fat is a New Weapon in the Obesity FightA new understanding of brown fat cells -- the "good" kind of fat that burns energy and keeps you warm -- could lead to new treatments for obesity. read more... |
The 5 Most Outrageous Weight Loss MythsThese days you can't go anywhere without hearing about a new weight loss breakthrough. A pill, a cream, or a new fad diet - you name it and it's going to solve all of your weight loss problems in 30 days or less. Or not. The truth is that most of the things you hear about weight loss are hype. Plain and simple. Here are the top 5 myths about weight loss: read more... |
Interval Training Burns More Fat, Increases Fitness, Study FindsScienceDaily (June 29, 2007) — Interval training burns fat and improves fitness more quickly than constant but moderately intensive physical activity, according to research by a University of Guelph researcher. read more... |
Health and Fitness Facts for all ages"Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience." -Izaak Walton Aquatics: Older people find stress free weightlessness in water is a good way to work out. All kinds of new "water toys" to exercise with are on the sports store shelves these days. Younger people also like aquatic fitness training. There's less stress on the joints and less sweat. …Could be the wave of the future. read more... |
Roll with it: Challenge your muscles with strength training on a stabilityWant to have a ball with your strength training? Then grab a stability ball and get ready to challenge your muscles in new ways. read more... |
What You Think is What You'll GetWhen I was obese, most of my mental brain energy was spent thinking about food. I would read those women's magazines that had food advertisements in the first 20 pages. I would stand in line at the supermarket waiting to buy my high-fat, sugar-loaded items and salivate over the artistically designed foods in those beautiful gourmet magazines. read more... |
Clean and Jerk for Body DevelopmentI feel this is one of the two classical competitive Weightlifting exercises. The objective of the Clean with Jerk is to lift the barbell to a locked out overhead position in two seperate movements. read more... |
Change Your Focus - Change Your LifeIf you want to lose extra weight and improve your health and fitness, you must change your focus. Change what goes into your head and you can change what goes into your mouth, then only then can you change your body. Change is an inside out job. read more... |
THE BENCH PRESS IS NOT A GOOD CHEST DEVELOPERAs in all my articles we must first start with an anatomy class. The chest muscle (pectoralis major) attaches to the 6th rib, goes up the center of the chest and across the clavicle. The whole muscle goes through the lower part of the shoulder and attaches to the upper arm in one place. It is responsible for something called horizontal abduction. read more... |
CROSS TRAINING FOR A LIFETIME OF FITNESSCross Training is the key to Injury Prevention, Motivation, and Results. Too often we see participants getting injured, aerobics attendees dropping out of class or people just stop working out altogether because they're not seeing the results they want. read more... |
Choosing a Personal TrainerFrom Paige Waehner, Your Guide to Exercise. About.com Health's Disease and Condition content is reviewed by our Medical Review Board Why a trainer may be right for you If you want to lose weight, get healthy and/or build muscle, hiring a personal trainer can be a step in the right direction. A good trainer can help you set up a program that meets your goals and teach you the best way to exercise. Here's what you should know before you hand over the cash. What is a Personal Trainer? read more... |
Food Combining what is it all about? by James B. Jefferson M.E.S. C.P.T. C.S.N. Licensed Wellcoach.Carbohydrates, proteins, and fats supply 90% of the dry weight of the diet and 100% of its energy. As sources of energy, carbohydrates, proteins, and fats are interchangeable in proportion to their energy content. The energy content is 4 calories in a gram of carbohydrate or protein and 9 calories in a gram of fat (1 gram equals 1/28 ounce). However, these nutrients differ in how quickly they supply energy; carbohydrates are the quickest, and fats are the slowest. This is why we want to use the Carbs for energy from Breakfast to Late Afternoon where we need quick energy not long stored energy that fat provides us. Our Bodies will always use the quickest energy available for the Krebs Cycle and store the slow burning energy like Fat. read more... |
How do movie stars look so good so fast when they want to?It is not a good idea to compare your life and goals to movie stars and their bodies. It would be easier for you to get into shape if your day looked like theirs. read more... |
Swap Overtraining For Smart Training!Swap Overtraining For Smart Training! Athletes of all levels can avoid many sports injuries with Prehabilitation (Prehab) Prehab is a personalized exercise program that continually evolves involving strength and conditioning exercises for specific muscles that help to reduce injury BEFORE an injury actually occurs. It provides sports specific focused exercises and activities for athlete's needs. The philosophy is simple: prevent injuries. read more... |
What is the Cause of Fibromyalgia?The simple answer to this question is than no one knows for sure. One line of research deals with the non restorative sleep pattern so common in fibromyalgia. When deep non dreaming sleep is disrupted, an individual will suffer from persistent fatigue and will never feel truly rested. read more... |
THE BENCH PRESS IS NOT A GOOD CHEST DEVELOPERWow what a statement, hah? Do I dare challenge the almighty bench press exercise? After all, it is written in stone somewhere, "you must do bench pressing to get big thick pecs". Right? Well guess what? I say it is a poor selection for chest development and it has a high risk for injury and I can prove it. read more... |
