Thousands of diet plans add up to a $40-billion a year industry. The public wants to get thin and cunning entrepreneurs want to get fat – with profits! Anyone can become a weight-loss guru with a great marketing team and a few testimonials. However, the weight-loss industry continues to grow, while obesity has reached epidemic [...]
Everything you consume can either positively or negatively affect your nutritional success. You have now learned that the types of food and the amount of food you consume each day are important. When working to change your body composition you need to know how many calories are enough or too much. Next you will find [...]
Carbohydrates (also called carbs) are macronutrient compounds commonly classified as: * Sugars (simple carbohydrates) * Starches (complex carbohydrates) * Fiber All carbohydrates are made up of sugars. Although there are a number of different types of sugars, in the body all carbohydrates are converted from sugar to glucose, the body’s preferred energy source. Glucose is [...]
I’m not going to go into a lot of descriptions on the various diet plans available today, because the fact of the matter is, a large percentage of these diets are fad-based and not really healthy for you. Most of them will only work for a short while because they put such a shock to [...]
From iFitness101.com As you’ve most likely experienced at least once in your life, an array of weight-loss diets regularly flood the markets today. The well-marketed ones sell briefly and fade as fast as users gain back all the weight they just lost. Most fad diets are low-calorie diets disguised by clever marketing gimmicks. There are [...]
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