Month: May 2010
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Money for Muscle
If you walk into any health food store you’ll see a wall of supposed muscle building supplements. Each one with fantastic claims about protein synthesis, strength, power, weight gain, boosting hormons and enzymatic pathways and on and on. There are muscle building supplements for pre workout, post workout, morning, night, morning AND night, testosterone boosters,…
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What Does Being Healthy and Fit Do?
‘Health’ and ‘Fitness’ are meaningless terms by themselves. They only become meaningful when you take the time to give your own personal definition to them as it applies to you. Many people will change the way they eat, exercise and live in an effort to be ‘healthier’ and ‘fit’, but how do you measure this?…
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Top 50 Health Supplements
About 20 mins from my place there is a mini market that has a great salad bar. You can get a really good salad with just about anything you want on it. It’s easily the best salad bar I’ve ever been too and it’s also the most affordable (nice!). This same market is joined to…
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The Right Food and the Wrong Food
For a growing number of people who are looking to lose weight or ‘get in shape’ food seems to be divisive topic. The path to a healthy body or to weight loss becomes something that gets wrapped up into an identity which food plays a major role. Common incarnations of these food related identities include:…
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Different Types of Fat Loss
Fat loss is just a matter of having a caloric deficit, this isn’t news (or at least it shouldn’t be news to you). You can create the caloric deficit 3 ways. 1. Caloric restriction 2. Increasing activity/exercise (without conscious attention to calories) 3. A combination of the previous points Regardless how you create the deficit…