Posts Tagged ‘Meal Replacements’
Protein Supplements Vs. Protein Foods
Are protein supplements really better than protein foods? Before attempting to answer this question, I should first preface it by mentioning that I do not sell supplements, nor am I associated with any supplement company, so you’re getting an honest and unbiased opinion. Don’t get me wrong; I am not anti-supplement by any means. It would simply be more accurate to say that I am “pro-food.” There are a lot of good supplements on the market, and I’ve used many of them, including a multi vitamin, creatine and essential fatty acid (EFA) supplements such as Flaxseed oil. Protein powders and meal replacements can also be indispensable if you don’t have time to eat every three hours. However, protein supplements are not the master key to your success, real food is!
Did you ever notice how articles about protein in certain bodybuilding magazines are seldom objective? Instead, they all seem to be slanted towards hyping some “revolutionary” new product. Did you ever wonder why? In my opinion, most articles on protein supplements are nothing more than thinly disguised advertisements (some very thinly). Sometimes they give you a very persuasive-sounding argument, replete with dozens of references from scientific studies (mostly done on rodents, of course). They even give you an 800 number at the end of the article to order. (How convenient!)
How Carbs Make You Gain Weight
Admit it: No amount how abounding times you apprehend about how overindulging in fat, protein or carbs can accomplish you accretion weight, you still can’t altogether antithesis your diet. With that in apperception we polled an able dietitian for her yield on some of the a lot of ambiguous (and mostly overlooked) means humans aback accretion weight. This can accomplish you accretion weight: Eating mindlessly, even if you’re not hungry.The fix? If you accomplishment a meal, besom your teeth. You can aswell try chewing sugar-free gum to accumulate your jaw busy, or accumulate aliment out of your appearance completely. You’re added acceptable to charge if there’s a bassinet of aliment or half-eaten bowl of pasta sitting out.This can accomplish you accretion weight: Eating added diet foods because they’re declared to accommodate beneath fat, amoroso or calories.The key to befitting the pounds off? Accomplish abiding you pay absorption to how abundant you eat, agency anniversary calorie into your circadian allowance, and don’t about-face to these types of foods as meal replacements.
This can accomplish you accretion weight: Eating richer, fattier commons already the algid acclimate hits. To abstain packing on winter pudge, act as you would in warmer months. Sign The bonus: Walking in beefy winter accessory can add attrition (think of those heavy, bulky boots!) and advice you bake added calories. Read the rest of this entry »