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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...

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...

by Matt Weik Without a doubt, eggs are one of the best protein sources you can find. I’ve done several content pieces on how great eggs are not only for your health, but for putting on quality lean muscle mass. It seems just about every year some new research comes out showing more benefits...

themusclephd Many people think you can’t gain muscle eating plant base sources of protein and I use to be one of those until we did a study showing that you can. However, there is ONE BIG CATCH. Because plant protein is lower in essential amino acids, you have to eat more of it per serving - at...

Most men like to eat, and eat a lot. So it's easy to go too far with a calorie surplus when the focus is on muscle gains. But there's a difference between eating enough to fuel workouts, recovery, and hypertrophy, and eating so much that you just look like a fat guy with decent traps. Big arms...

7 Signs of Good Digestion I’m sure you’ve heard the phrase “you are what you eat,” but I’d like to take the sentiment one step further to claim you are what you absorb. Digestion is the complex process by which your body reduces the food you eat into individual nutrients in order to build...

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...

Well I’ve been trying a slow bulk and I’ve gone backwards. I’ve been trying to eat very clean. Steamed vegetables and spinach. 1-2lbs of meat a day I cook 1 cup of each white rice, Farro and quinoa and mix with meat and veggies. 2 scoops protein with water I can’t do it with milk. I snack on...

<header class="entry-header">Disordered Eating No Longer Controls Me, But That Doesn’t Mean I Never Struggleby Nia Shanks </header> <!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');</script><![endif]--> I’m no longer captive to disordered eating. But that doesn’t mean I never...

for fat loss; what’s best for improving overall health; is there such a thing as an all-you-can-eat peanut butter diet; are total calories or food quality more important. Eating healthy is complicated. Not really. Eating healthy seems complicated because of the abundance of information on...

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by Tom MacCormick - Ever inhaled your lunch while checking email, Facebook, or working on a report? This distracted eating is a physique-ruining habit you need to break. How? "Hara hachi bu.” It's a Japanese phrase which means "eat until 80% full." So when helping someone get lean I ask them to...

by Matt Weik It’s not difficult to overeat. We can all sit down with a bowl of ice cream, a bag of potato chips, or whatever other indulgence you might enjoy and go to town. Or maybe it’s a poker night with the boys and you’re kicking back a few cold ones or enjoying a cigar with a few...

With broscience running all over the fitness industry, we came to find out that meal timing and frequency really means nothing these days. You have people following IIFYM (if it fits your macros) as well as the intermittent fasting crowd. Both of which, I am a huge fan of. However, it appears...

The One Simple Hack part of the title either piqued your interest, or triggered your potential-bullshit alarm. Simply writing it induced a bit of nausea for me since most “hacks” are overused, regurgitated phrases filled with empty promises. Or they’re just stupid. This simple hack, I’m relieved...

The key to losing fat and keeping it off is simply to figure out what's sustainable. Those who achieve their body composition goal are those who can stick with the changes they make in the long run. Sure, you can cut huge amounts of carbs and fats, basically surviving on only protein and...

How many of you started your weight loss journey and the weight started dropping like bird poop on a clear day in July? Then all of a sudden it was like your body started pumping the brakes and your weight loss progress seemed to have slowed down or even stopped all together? Well, you aren’t...

The Real Girl Power of Female Bodybuilding Beyond the blinged-out bikinis and lucite heels, a female bodybuilder (and girly girl) has a message for the mainstream media: The frail and starved are being replaced by the fit and powerful. I’m sure plenty of people were shocked when they first...

Being consumed with guilt after overindulging, and then making extra restrictions with food for the next two days.Feeling like you didn’t work hard enough in your workout because you were unable to improve your performance, so you squeeze in an extra workout to “make up” for it. Feeling...

by Josh Hodnik We were once programmed to believe that a low-fat, high carbohydrate diet was the key to a fitter society that would be less prone to disease. That didn’t help matters and the rate of obesity and disease climbed. The low carb/high protein diet would eventually replace the...