Archive for Better Nutrition
May 6, 2010 at 3:10 am · Filed under Better Nutrition, Miscellaneous
Vendors sold over 1 billion pounds of uncooked kernels and shipped out more than 245 million pounds internationally in the year 2000, meaning it’s no surprise that this confectionery is among the nation’s preferred delicacies. So if you want some, buy from the biggest in the market — sending a million or more pounds every year to lovers of gourmet popcorn balls. What’s more, it’s certified kosher, leaving it open for everyone.
Given their three decades of experience, you can give them your order in good faith, whatever flavor you’re craving. It takes the best fixings to prepare the best popcorn, so they sort through domestically grown corn to buy the best available. Following that, pure corn oil is used to pop the kernels to permit flavorings to infuse into the core of the popcorn. It’s packaged in visually pleasing containers and dispatched fresh straight to the buyer. Their speciality tins are a decent supply, sized for 2.5 and 6 gallons and filled to the brim. These are large enough to last you and your friends for several movies or supply a group of employees at a company. You’d expect the buttered and plain varieties, but some of the other flavors might be new to you. Perhaps these should be beyond your budget? No need to dismay — smaller tins and boxes are also available. They arrive decorated with the theme you chose like Christmas, a favorite sports team, birthdays, “thank you”, and so on. There are further personalization options — an appropriate picture, your name, or a clever missive. Know what you want? You could always place a big order. Customers with more diverse interests might investigate the samplers and assortments on offer. Should you want to acquire more than a small serving of assorted varieties, then towers are the best way to go. Although some towers are predesigned, one can also determine what each box will contain in a custom stack.
Popcorn in almost any flavor you might want can be purchased from the Popcorn Factory. Buy them as treats for yourself or as gifts. There’s no more effective way to spread a little happiness across the U.S.A.
January 8, 2010 at 3:31 am · Filed under Better Nutrition, Miscellaneous
Cheryl and Co can make your loved ones smile with old-fashioned cookies. Regardless of where in the US you might want to send a gift to, they can deliver a huge variety of bakery items directly from their bakeshops. Each and every box is exquisitely wrapped and promptly delivered directly to the recipient’s address with every item at the peak of freshness. What better way to delight your family, or even your clients?
Cheryl and Co started making delicious cookies in the early eighties when they opened their very first bakehouse in Ohio. Merely 7 years after opening they had already eminently extended their product range. It wasn’t long before the cookie supplier was selling its goods in carefully chosen retail outlets, and then introduced a section specifically for helping corporate customers find the ideal gifts. When they launched their website, this too was very popular and they finally amalgamated with the 1800Flowers brand family and these days are one of the largest cookie providers on the web.
The quality of their products and ingredients is the cookie supplier’s main priority. Each order is transported quickly to make sure it is received in perfect condition.
None of the baked items have any synthetic preservatives or additives. The range includes much loved cookies such as macadamia nut and raisin, and a number of more unique flavor combinations besides. Your hardest task will actually be the decision what not to send.
The choice is not limited to cookies either for brownies and premium chocolate are also available. You can purchase towers, boxes, or tins full of pre-selected types of bakery goods. Or, you can go for a gift box and then choose the varieties of your choice. When you look at the brownie shop on the internet site you will find that the range covers frosted, nut and even specially decorated holiday brownies.
Choose an elegantly boxed gift to thank a client or business contact. Or you can tell a loved one they are missed by delivering gourmet goodies in a novelty hamper. Naturally, for Christmas and other high days and holidays, they have especially made goodies just for the occasion.
So it’s easy to see the reason why Cheryl & Co’s products are such a success story!
August 4, 2009 at 9:20 am · Filed under Better Nutrition
1. Begin by paying attention to what you’re eating and you should start by cutting back on bad foods and replace them with more healthy foods into your diet. After you have this particular aspect in control, the next thing to do is to implement exercise with your plan. It is best to start an exercise program by starting with only 15 to 30 minutes at a time, especially if you are not fond of exercising.
2 - Limit your eating and action choices to what you find pleasurable. It is best to do activities that you enjoy when exercising because you will find that you have more success with activities that you enjoy rather than trying things that you do not enjoy.
3 - Work on your muscles not on your weight. By this method you will lose weight pound by pound depending on your weight and muscles. By working out with weights to build up your muscle and then let the extra lean muscle mass burn up more calories for you.
4 - Eliminate most, but not all, of your carbohydrate intake, as you do need a certain amount to fuel your body. In your diet cut down carbohydrates and also cut white breads and pastas from your diet.
5 - One should set sensible, reasonable and achievable goals We can put deadlines to our goals, makes them measurable and realistic by choosing goals that we know we can attain.
6 - Eating cookies, candy, cakes and other sweets as well as drinking drinks that are loaded with sugar and also soda with sugar can be surprisingly unhealthy. If you want to lose some pounds and want to shrink your size then cut on these bad goodies or at-least reduce to 80%.
7 - Eat a healthy nutritious breakfast. You should consume the majority of your daily calories early in the day, making breakfast a priority.
8. You can control the amount of portions by simply leaving some food left over on your plate. Let your protein consumption be proportionate to the quantity of food you take.
To see significant change in your weight loss in no time, follow these simple tips one by one. Also ensure you check out Pure Hoodia for more tips and information about nutrition and weight reduction from experts.
June 24, 2009 at 12:09 am · Filed under Better Nutrition, Health
With all of life’s commitments nowadays it’s increasingly difficult to pause, cook yourself a healthy meal and actually finish off the day’s tasks. It doesn’t come as a shock that people find it difficult to get their recommended daily intake of fruits, veggies and vitamins. The issue being, most prepared food for purchase these days is made using pre-packaged, low quality ingredients with tons of preservatives. You lose a good portion of the healthy nutrients in food when you process them like that! Unfortunately, people don’t think they have the time to cook a great meal with their busy schedules.
There’s no doubt, if you’d like to get healthy and do something that’s good for your body, the best thing to do is buy the ingredients and cook the meal yourself. The less your food is processed, the better it will be for you. Do your best to stay away from preservatives. The great thing is, with the right recipes, you don’t have to spend hours cooking meals! I make tons of simple, yet delicious meals at home that don’t take any longer than 30 minutes to make! (Believe me, these are much healthier than Rachel Ray’s 30 Minute Meals! Hers are full of preserved foods.) The Cooking Cousins have tons of great recipes that are simple but made with all fresh ingredients. If you’d like to impress someone with your cooking skills would prefer not to spend the day in the kitchen, try their gnocci recipe.
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If your schedule really won’t allow you to cook meals, you can begin juicing to get your daily intake of fruits and veggies. Like other foods, packaged juice (especially from concentrate) is simply less benefitial than homemade juice. If you’d like to stop paying those crazy juice-bar prices, you should buy yourself a good juice extractor. A good one will last you at least 10 years! The Samson Single-Gear Juicer can produce extremely healthy juice and takes less than 2 minutes to clean, so they’re perfect for people with busy schedules. You can find excellent prices on a Samson Green Power Kempo and get free shipping from www.PurelyJuicers.com.
May 13, 2008 at 12:29 pm · Filed under Better Nutrition
Two recent studies found that cocoa contains chemicals called flavan-3-ols, which have been associated to lowering blood pressure and increasing function of the blood vessels cells. By consequence, drinking or eating cocoa not only lowers blood pressure, but also diminishes the risk of cardiovascular disease in elderly men, helping them live longer.
Researchers concluded that cocoa is a rich source of antioxidants, therefore its action may also have a positive effect to other disease that are linked to oxidative stress (e.g. pulmonary diseases and certain types of cancer).
The team studied 470 men aged over 65 and asked them questions about their daily intake of cocoa. Based on over 15 year examination of cocoa’s relationship to cardiovascular health within this group, this research team found that men who consumed cocoa regularly had considerable lower blood pressure than those who did not. On the other hand, those men with highest cocoa consumption were at half risk to die from cardiovascular disease in comparison with the others. More than that, their risk remained lower and related to smoking habits, weight, calorie intake, weight, physical activity levels, alcohol consumption and other factors.
The conclusion was that high cocoa and chocolate consumption makes men less likely to die of any cause.
The problem is cocoa is rarely tolerable in large amounts and therefore the suggested therapeutic amount is about 100g of dark chocolate per day.
Valerian D is a freelance writer interested in issues such as nutrition and diets.
April 20, 2008 at 1:26 pm · Filed under Better Nutrition
Eating healthy and taking care of yourself is essential to obtain optimal wellness. Most people roll their eyes or moan when confronted with these ideas, but, in reality, taking care of yourself is not as hard, time consuming, expensive, or dull as most would have you believe. In fact, once people decide to choose a healthy life, they notice more energy, increased self-confidence, more time to do things that really matter, and they spend less time in the doctor’s office or hospital. It is less expensive to buy organic foods and shop for most items at a health food store than it is to buy candy, soda, chips, pizza, alcohol, and cigarettes.
Not only do people consume less food on a healthy diet (you really can’t just eat one Pringle), they help their bodies to become stronger and more able to fight disease, which makes their health costs lower as well. The foods are not dull or tasteless either. It does depend on what you like, but, in general, unprocessed and whole foods right from the garden (or produce section) are the tastiest and most satisfying. If you don’t like fresh snap peas, maybe you’ve not had them done right!
In our current society of hustle and bustle, we often go for the cheapest and quickest foods to get rid of that nasty hunger sensation. But what does that do to you? Really? Most people don’t know and they don’t care. They will care more when they discover they have heart disease or diabetes or the variety of other conditions caused by this type of lifestyle. But patterns get established and it is so difficult to stay away from the burgers or sodas for long. Tastes get perverted (yes, that is the word for it) to like too much fat, sugar, and salt in our diets. Foods don’t taste as good without additives.
In reality, they don’t taste as good because cheap food is cheap food and you wouldn’t eat it if you weren’t fooled by the extras added in to either make it look, taste, or smell better. A McDonald’s thin hamburger is grayish to begin with, never mind that it has comparatively loads of fat in its small size. Try just the burger without the cheese, ketchup, mustard, onions, or pickles. Pretty bland. That cheese (if you could call it that) is what they call ‘cheese food’. They cannot call it ‘cheese’ because of the processing. This ‘cheese food’ makes up most of the sliced cheeses in supermarkets. Look at the labels. The ketchup has corn syrup (sugar) and sugar added. I could go on, but I won’t.
The point is, these additives are added to make an inferior product taste good enough to sell at a cheaper price so the public will buy. I guarantee in a taste test of a more expensive, yet organic ketchup made with tomatoes that taste good, and regular ketchup without any added sugar to either sample, you would choose the organic one over the non-organic based solely on freshness of taste. The same goes for burgers, ice cream, breads, and many processed products. The better the ingredient quality, the better it tastes and the healthier it is for you.
It is best to limit the use of anything processed (processed meaning things were done to it, it is not directly or closely linked to the whole, natural food; usually these foods are in boxes or bags), but whole grain rice with spices and herbs in a box with no unnatural additives is much better for you than the usual Rice-a-Roni, mac and cheese, and the like. Read those labels as well. If you cannot pronounce or understand what an ingredient is, do not consume it. If a product says ‘enriched’, this does not make it a better product.
In fact, things are enriched when they have had those enriching items taken away. Processing foods uses heat, cold, light, drying, or crushing which all serve to deplete vitamins and minerals in the food. To replace these essentials means the food was already compromised. Look for foods that are as close to their natural state and as fresh as possible. The best foods are fresh straight from the earth. The next best is fresh from the produce or bulk section. Then comes frozen, dried, and canned, respectively.
You may wonder how the Standard American Diet (SAD diet) affects your health besides flavor and price. Processed foods, as mentioned above, typically contain less vitamins and minerals than the original foods that made them up. If you eat food mostly from packages or boxes and are not reading labels, not only are you not getting valuable nutrients, but also you are consuming items that may be depleting nutrients in your body. Sugar uses B vitamins from your body. Preservatives and additives put an extra burden on your liver, whose job it is to break these compounds down so your body can get rid of them.
What your body cannot get rid of, it will store in fat, so these chemicals will not be running around causing harm where they do not belong. No where in nature will you find a body needs ‘blue dye 2′ or ‘propylene glycol’ necessary and good for survival. Fat is the best storage place for these toxins. Fat is found not only right under your skin but also lining your nerves and in your brain. These may not be places you wish toxins stored.
We commonly hear that fat is bad and cholesterol is bad from the media. We do need fat and cholesterol to live. Fats and cholesterol are large components in healthy skin, all your cells, hormones, and your brain and nerves. They are also a good source of energy when needed. It is not good to severely limit these items from the diet. It is the quality of the fats that you consume that makes the difference. Some fats that are good for your body are called essential fatty acids, or EFA’s. Your body cannot make these fats, therefore the essential aspect. You can find these helpful fats in flax seeds, fish, evening primrose oil, borage oil, and some other oils and foods.
If you eat fat mainly from grass-fed animals, butter, fruits, vegetables, grains, fish, and get some EFA’s in your diet, you will do well. Margarine contains fats called ‘trans fatty acids’ which helps it stay solid at room temperature. These trans fats contribute quickly to atherosclerosis and heart disease. Trans fats are also found in many processed foods like chips, fries, and some diet foods. Please read labels. Do not eat any foods that say ‘trans fatty acids’ or ‘hydrogenated’ or ‘partially hydrogenated’. Hydrogenation is the process that forms the trans fats.
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April 16, 2008 at 6:29 pm · Filed under Better Nutrition
Most often, the effects of vitamins and vitamin deficiencies are spread over a period of time. If your body isn’t getting sufficient amounts of a particular vitamin, it may take weeks, months or even years of low levels before the effects are evident. And when you start a vitamin regimen, it may take a significant period of time for your body to begin exhibiting the effects of having sufficient levels.
Vitamin K - otherwise known as potassium - is commonly associated with leg cramps. If a Vitamin K deficiency is the cause of your leg cramps, it’s likely that adding the vitamin to your daily routine can give you ease in a relatively short period of time.
One of the bigger (but less commonly known) reasons for Vitamin K in the human body has to do with blood clotting. This vitamin allows blood to coagulate so that it forms clots naturally. This makes it important for anyone taking medications to thin the blood to carefully monitor the amount of Vitamin K they add to their body. If you’re taking an anti-coagulant drug, talk to your doctor before adding any vitamin to your daily routine or changing your diet - especially if those changes involve Vitamin K supplements or foods rich in Vitamin K.
One of the biggest myths about Vitamin K is that bananas are rich in Vitamin K and can be used instead of Vitamin K supplements. In fact, bananas are not a particularly good source of Vitamin K. For example, a half-cup of broccoli contains 200 times the amount of Vitamin K in a banana. Green vegetables are among the highest in Vitamin K content, with kale, turnip greens, broccoli and spinach heading the list. Cabbage, green beans and parsley are also included on the list of foods that are high in Vitamin K.
While the green foods are a good source of Vitamin K, they’re not the only source. You’ll also find that strawberries are a moderately high source of Vitamin K, as are dill pickles.
Not all the Vitamin K needed by the body is consumed. In fact, this is one of the few vitamins that the body actually helps manufacture. Babies don’t have much Vitamin K present in their bodies when they’re first born, therefore an infant’s blood may not clot as it should. To combat that, many hospitals give a shot of Vitamin K to babies soon after birth to start the body’s natural processing of this important vitamin.
Bob Benson is the founder of Vitamins online. You can check out our website at http://www.pharmaceutical-supplements.info
April 10, 2008 at 11:47 am · Filed under Better Nutrition
“Soup diet,” “vinegar diet,” “Hollywood Secret Diet,” “low-carb diet”… the list goes on. Sadly, these diet fads perpetuate many of the most common myths surrounding nutrition and losing weight.
Over time, these myths have become deeply rooted in the consciousness of Americansespecially for those who are desperately grasping for truths about nutrition. In fact, I’d bet it’s safe to say you and I were taught long ago the supposed “right way” and “wrong way” to lose weight. Unfortunately, most of these “truths” are, in fact, dead wrong.
Usually, these myths were based on some haphazard, outdated approach, passed on from generation to generation, leaving little to no room for dispute. And while a few of them may work over the short term, the majority of them hardly ever work over the long term. And worse, most of them are not a healthy approach to weight loss. Today, modern science has, thankfully, uncovered some of the most destructive myths surrounding nutrition and losing weight.
Here are the five most easily avoidable yet highly destructive myths for how to positively affect the metabolism with food and boost your body’s ability to “burn” fat:
MYTH: You should restrict calories when you want to drop pounds.
FACT: You must eat smart, not less, if you want to lose weight!
Contrary to common belief, if you severely restrict your food intake, your body quickly “panics” and goes into a fat-protection “survival mode.” As a result, your metabolism slows and you start using muscle as fuel (muscle actually burns fat, so we don’t want to lose this precious tissue), and restricting your food intake too much will leave you feeling irritable, hungry, and grouchy. (Surely we’ve all been there before!) And because your body is in “survival mode,” very powerful signals are sent from your brain, telling you to eat, eat, eat! Why? Because it thinks it’s starving, and it doesn’t know when it will get food again.
“If you want long-term weight loss, you must carefully choose the type of foods you eat!”Realistically, you can expect to hold off your uncontrollable urges for only so long before you give in. And voila, instant weight return, plus some bonus bodyfat for your efforts.
Unfortunately, millions of people every year resolve to lose fat by severely restricting their daily food intake. My hunch is that’s one reason Americans are, in general, in worse shape now than ever before! And a new study, found in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, confirmed, once again, that restricting calories will decrease your metabolism and only prevent you from losing bodyfat.
MYTH: It isn’t necessary to pay attention to the type of calories you consume to lose weight.
FACT: If you want long-term weight loss, you must carefully choose the type of foods you eat!
Whenever you’re considering the types of food to eat, remember this: all calories are not created equal. Fat requires only two percent of your body’s energy to use it up; carbohydrates require roughly 10% energy to burn them; whereas protein requires an astonishing 20% of your body’s energy to use it… Thus, by consuming more protein, you’re actually revving up your metabolism.
“Research shows that right around .8 to one gram of protein per pound of bodyweight is adequate, and safe, for enhancing your body’s metabolic rate…”Research shows that right around .8 to one gram of protein per pound of bodyweight is adequate, and safe, for enhancing your body’s metabolic rate as well as helping your body maintain fat-burning muscle tone. Consuming around 40% of your daily calories in the form of quality proteins is adequate for recovering from workouts and keeping healthy muscle tone.
It’s easy to see why the common adage “fat is more fattening than carbohydrates or protein” came into being. So it’s smart to take in no more than 20% dietary fat any given day whenever you’re attempting to lose fat. (These fats will likely occur naturally in most whole-food proteins, so don’t worry about adding any “extra” fat.)
So finally, carbohydrates should be consumed in the range of no more than 40% of your daily intake, avoiding simple carbs and completely eliminating the refined (sugary) types of carbs and incorporating plenty of fibrous types of carbs. In fact, new scientific evidence from the American Journal of Epidemiology has shown that when consuming too many carbs (especially simple-sugar carbs at one sitting), your body responds by stimulating a surge of insulin to be released. Why do you want to avoid this? Because insulin is a hormone that encourages fat stores to become larger, more easily “transporting” fat to be stored and sealing the fat stores shut, preventing fat cells from breaking down.
Fortunately, adding more protein to each meal in your diet “buffers” this insulin secretion by slowing the rate of absorption of carbohydrates. And, the addition of dietary protein also kicks up another hormone called glucagon (insulin’s opposing hormone), which can offset the fat-storing ability of insulin by dragging it down and helping dispose of it before it stores more fat. A new study in the European Journal of Nutrition offers evidence that glucagon’s release in the body (as a result of increased protein consumption) may further stimulate fat burning by encouraging fat to be liberated and used more easily.
Kristen Leventis has learned how to positively affect her metabolism with food and boost her body’s ability to burn fat by avoiding the pitfalls of common dieting practices.MYTH: I don’t need “extra” protein to help my body lose weight.
FACT: Any person who exercises and wishes to lose weight must have more protein in their diets.
If you tell the average nutritionist you consume plenty of protein-rich foods because you’re attempting to lose weight or because you train with weights, you’ll often hear, “Oh, you don’t want to do that. You don’t need that much, and it may even lead to kidney disease.” Unfortunately, as in any industry, nutritionists are susceptible to ingrained teachings, even if they’ve now been shown to be false or misleading. In this particular case, there isn’t a single decent study that indicates that healthy adults should not consume a protein-rich diet, especially if they are involved in regular exercise and are trying to drop extra bodyfat.
New research confirms that those performing any type of weight training require a greater amount of protein than sedentary individuals. What causes concern for most people is this amount is above the current Canadian and U.S. recommended daily protein intake requirements for healthy adults.
However, from extensive research, one of the top researchers in the nutritional field, Dr. Peter Lemon states, “…data suggest that the RDA for those engaged in regular endurance exercise should be about 1.2 to 1.4 grams of protein per kilogram of body mass (that’s 150% to 175% of the current recommended daily allowance).”
Other well-noted researchers and leaders in the field of nutrition have come to similar conclusions repeatedly over the years. They’ve found that persons engaged in physical activities, yet merely adhering to the RDA standards for protein requirements, were actually losing precious muscle tissue as they worked out, simply because their bodies did not have enough protein readily available to repair and rebuild their muscles after a workout.
Plus, it’s been shown that those who consume increased amounts of protein (even higher than the RDA recommendation) have denser bones than people who ate less.
From the scientific evidence alone, it is clear that people engaged in regular exercise and who want to lose weight require greater than the RDA in protein to get optimal results.
MYTH: To lose weight, I can just cut down on the number of meals I eat each day.
FACT: Eating five to six evenly spaced meals per day provides the body everything it needs to starve (and reduce) bodyfat.
Rather than running around with your calorie-counter book, you must instead pay attention to the “types” of food you eat, the respective “proportions” of each type, and “how often” you eat. I like to call this meal patterning.
As indicated in a recent study in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, by spreading your meals more evenly throughout the day, in five or six smaller meals, rather than two or three large meals (or an overindulgence in snacks whenever you’re hungry), you can maximize the absorption of nutrients (so your body can use more of the food you eat) and supply your body with more stable (non-spiking) levels of insulin-levels your body can adequately manageto keep your body from storing and trapping fat and steadily increase your metabolism throughout the day. So, never go more than a few hours while you’re awake without eating a balanced, high-quality, carbohydrate-rich, low-fat meal.
MYTH: All calories are created equal, so to lose weight, all I need to do is reduce the number of calories I eat every day.
FACT: You must focus on the types of calories you put into your body, in addition to the number of calories you consume.
“Sadly, many nutritionists today continue to preach the outdated theory that ‘all calories are created equal.’”Sadly, many nutritionists today continue to preach the outdated theory that “all calories are created equal.” Thankfully, for those of us who pay careful attention to the most recent scientific findings (as well as carefully watch what’s going on in the real world!), this old-school theory is being replaced by the newer, more accurate theory about calories when it comes to gaining or losing weight.
Before today, you too may have thought that weight loss or weight gain was strictly a matter of “calories in versus calories out.” In other words, if you “burn” more calories than you consume, you would in effect lose weightregardless of the calorie source. Conversely, if you were to consume more calories than you burn off each day, you would then gain weightagain, regardless of the calorie source.
The truth is, however, the “calories in versus calories out” philosophy fails to take into account modern research that finds that proteins, carbohydrates, and fats have very different physiological effects on the body’s metabolism through countless pathways. For instance, hormones such as insulin and glucagons, as well as thermic effects (the way the body internally regulates “heat” production), and literally thousands of other effects foods have on the body are all uniquely caused by different macro-nutrients.
As I will point out, in the next section of my Plan, not only is the mantra “all calories are created equal” proven to be false, “protein is protein” and “all fats are created equal” is also incorrect. For example, we now know different fats, such as healthy omega/fish oils versus unhealthy saturated fats, have vastly different effects on the body’s metabolism and overall health. We also now know that different carbohydrate sources have their own unique effects on the body’s ability to use, or store, fat (such as high glycemic index carbohydrates versus low glycemic index foods). And surprisingly, we now know that different proteins can have unique effects in the body too.
So, as my friend, William Brink, a Harvard graduate, with a concentration in the natural sciences, and academic researcher, has so eloquently pointed out in his “Unified Theory of Nutrition,” while the total calorie intake does in fact dictate how much weight a person gains or loses, the macro-nutrient ratios or proteins, carbohydrates, and fats ultimately dictate what type of weight a person gains or loses.
Make no mistake about it, this seemingly simple statement will allow you to better understand the differences between the old theory of calories and the new theory of macro-nutrients. And the reason we know this to be true is because of recent studies, which have concluded that two groups of people who are put on the same number of calories per day but given different ratios of protein, carbohydrates, and fats will lose different amounts of bodyfat and/or lean body mass.
Other evidence shows that even though people on these diets may lose the same amount of weight, one group loses more bodyfat and retains more muscle tissue than the other group, which loses only weight, which could be comprised mostly of water and muscle mass and very little fat weight.
It is for these reasons, in addition to the number of calories I consume, I pay careful attention to the types of foods I put into my body and, most importantly, the ratio of proteins, carbohydrates, and fats I consume them in.
Putting this truth into practice, my daily eating patterns consist of balancing my meals, repeated five to six times throughout the day, such that the macro-nutrient ratio of foods found on my plate are somewhere near 40% high-quality proteins, 40% energy-rich, low glycemic carbohydrates, and no more than 20% naturally occurring fats. You simply can’t go wrong with a sound, intelligent, science-based plan like this for eating.
At only 33 years old, Stephen Adele has been helping individuals from all walks of life create measurable results in their physiques and performance over the last 15 years and has rapidly become a respected authority. He has published numerous articles for magazines around the world, been quoted in several trade publications, appeared on radio shows, conducted seminars around the globe, and is the CEO of the prestigious supplement manufacturer, iSatori Technologies.
Stephen now also shares his insights, expertise, and inside connections in two of the fastest growing publications in the industry, Real SOLUTIONS email newsletter and Real SOLUTIONS magazine, and has recently co-authored the consumers’ guides 7 Never-Before-Told Secrets Everyone Should Know Before Buying Supplements, The 21-Day Ultimate Energy Plan, The Lean System Success Plan, and MAXIMUM GROWTH, Volume II.
Over the years, Stephen’s philosophy has remained unchanged: “The greatest gift you can give yourself is the gift of a strong mind, which can yield extraordinary dividends in the form of a stronger, healthie
