Tag: protein
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How Much Protein Is In An Egg?
Eggs are an excellent source of protein and relatively cheap too. They have a very high biological value and a full complement of essential and non-essential amino acids. In short, if you wanted a complete and easy to absorb protein source look no further than eggs. With that said there are a few considerations you…
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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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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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What is the Best Ratio Of Protein Carbs and Fat?
Most weight loss diets will usually give some sort of recommendation of the preferred or optimal protein carb and fat ratio based on the effect is supposedly has on your hormone balance and the way your body digests the food, how it will make you feel yadda yadda. But what gets left out of the…
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Low Protein Training
I’ve been back to the gym two days in a row now, and will be in again this evening. Lifting about 70% of what I’m normally used to, feeling a bit lackluster after eating soup and bagels for a week and not sleeping particularly well. The interesting to note here is that I’m probably only…