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The reason why we present the evidence for the safety of aspartame as an artificial sweetener is because the alternative usually is to consume foods/drinks sweetened with refined sugars. Sugar sweetened beverage is hands down the worst grocery in terms of avoiding weight gain. . It is very...

Are Protein Bars Good For You? Bodybuilding & Sports Nutrition Supplements Store – Prosource It wasn’t all that long ago when the question featured above would have seemed comical on its surface. Protein bars occupied the lowest rung on the sports nutrition ladder. They were amalgamations of...

One of the most underused muscle-building habits is keeping track of progress. If you want to build the most muscle in the shortest amount of time possible, you need to measure your success. In the kitchen this means, yes, tracking your calories. I understand that it's inexact, a pain in the...

by Christian Duque America is facing a major battle, a war actually. Heart disease is always a crucial concern, the onset of adult diabetes is on the rise, and many have been left scratching their heads, looking aimlessly for what’s causing all the healthcare woes. The cold hard facts are...

Weight*management always comes down to how many calories you eat versus how many you burn. Fad diets all promise removing every carbohydrate you avoid and replacing it with a grapefruit means you just torch fat away. It's simply not right. For a long time, we assumed 3,500 calories makes up a...

There are many ways that we burn calories, but lifting alone doesn’t burn very many. And cardio is something our body gets better and better at quickly and we end up burning fewer calories at the same length of time/intensity as our cardiovascular fitness improves. For this reason, adding more...

It’s common for people to “bulk” in an effort to add some quality lean muscle mass to their frame. What generally tends to happen due to a surplus in calories to allow for muscle growth, a little body fat tends to be added as well. When it’s time to start your cut, many fail to see the results...

A*COMPLETE GUIDE TO PROTEIN SHAKES FOR MUSCLE BUILDING AND WEIGHT LOSS Once unique to the diet of bodybuilders, protein shakes are seeing increased inclusion in the diets*of nearly anyone seeking to improve their health. These shakes can be purchased pre-made, quickly created by combining...

In a perfect world, eating more food would directly correlate to more lean muscle mass. Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way. Except for those on steroids who are able to elevate protein synthesis around the clock, natural lifters need a moderate surplus to avoid gaining too much fat. What...

It's not hormones, it's not insulin, it's CALORIES. (1) . No matter how many PhDs a person has, if they tell you fat loss is not about calories they don't know the literature and are WRONG. . As the pictures show, your body can adapt its physical activity (NEAT) and metabolic rate to reduce your...

There are no clear nutritional or health benefits conferred by eating organic food over non-organic food, and they certainly won’t make you leaner. -- But we’re not saying that organic foods are bad or that you shouldn’t buy them. In fact, there may be some benefits to the farming methods used...

For many years (decades?) a common suggestion was that one should attempt to gain some muscle mass mass (through resistance training and possibly overeating) prior to beginning a diet. Well meaning individuals would suggest you spent 3-4 weeks or more training hard and eating well to gain muscle...

Nutrition Rules That Miss the Mark 1 – “Diet is 70% of Your Results!” Nobody will argue the importance of diet when it comes to achieving your physique goals. A nutrition plan that’s not in line with your goal will make it much harder to reach it. If your objective is to get shredded and...

his recommendation is likely to be the most powerful for many lifters, but it may be the hardest to digest. From my over 30 years of experience with helping guys get bigger and stronger, I'd say that the number one reason they fail to gain muscle is their stubborn refusal to gain weight and...

Some bodybuilders never use protein supplements, preferring instead to get all their protein from food sources, such as meat, fish and eggs. Their view is backed by most mainstream dietitians, who note that it’s not difficult to get all the protein you need to build muscle just from eating...

Make This Healthy Gainer Shake. Experienced lifters need to be in a caloric surplus to build muscle at an optimal rate, but that doesn't require thousands of extra calories over maintenance intake. It's body-building, not belly-building, remember? Roughly a few hundred calories over maintenance...

Women and Steroids - How to Eat For Muscle. Since every body type is different, it is difficult to generalize how one should eat for various goals (e.g. muscle gain, weight loss, competition, etc.). The following is an amalgam of information mostly generated from the personal webpages of...

by Matt Weik You don’t need to starve yourself or spend hours on the treadmill each day in order to lose weight. In fact, you only need to make some very minor adjustments to your diet and nutrition in order to see some big results. This article will show you some extremely easy ways to lose...

If you fill your hunger with protein first what are you most likely not going to eat a huge amount of? It takes roughly 24.6-26 calories burned to digest every 100 calories of protein yet it only takes roughly 3.8 to 4.2 calories burned to digest every 100 calories of fats/carbs so are you...

by Dean Graddon . Regardless of what it says on your fitness tracker or cardio machine, the fat burning zone isn't really a thing. You're actually in the fat burning zone right now, as you sit absolutely still, reading from a screen, because most of the energy you're using right now comes from...