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Diet Wars

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Did you know that in long term studies comparing various diets, researchers have found that most of the time the diet in question is a lot less important that whether or not the participants stuck with it?  Longer term studies reveal a fairly even playing field when it comes to the range of different diets around, meaning that the best diet is actually the diet that you can stick to.

PRODUCT REVIEW: VPX NO Shotgun

VPX NO Shotgun is an amazing and powerful bodybuilding supplement.  For anyone with any experience using these sorts of supplements, you will know that VPX products are up there with any top sellers.

VPX NO Shotgun is no exception.  With a variety of different matrices included, you get more power with every ounce.

Choosing Whole Grains for Health

While eating grains has become a bit taboo these days with all the no-carb or low-carb diets around, eating whole, natural grains is actually vital to good health and to maintaining a healthy weight.

Carbohydates 101

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When it comes to carbohydrates, many people can get confused.  With the popularity of many no carb or low carb diets, some people may feel that all carbohydrates lead to weight gain.  However, according to most dieticians this is not the case.

PRODUCT REVIEW: Tribulus Terrestris

Tribulus Terrestris is a potent testosterone enhancing herb that has been used for centuries.  Tribulus Terrestri is extracted from the medicinal plant and used as a supplement for various conditions. 

Healthy Habits for Weight Management

In order to lose weight most people need to follow a diet or other weight loss program and increase their activity levels.  But when it comes to weight maintenance, that’s when things can get somewhat more complicated.  All too often, people who have successfully lost weight, gain it back once they’ve reached their weight loss goals.

Eating Clean for Weight Loss

Sometimes losing weight doesn’t have to mean following a diet guru or cutting out all of your favourite foods.  Sometimes weight loss can be successfully achieved simply by eating clean. 

PRODUCT REVIEW: Taurine

Taurine is an amino acid that functions as one of the building blocks of other aminos.  As such, though it is known as a semi-essential amino acid, it is key to many of the body’s functions.

Best Calorie Burning Workouts

If you’re looking to shed pounds than you’ll definitely want to increase your physical activity levels alongside a healthy eating plan.  By increasing your aerobic activity you will burn calories and thereby lose weight more quickly.  However, when it comes to exercise, just how much is enough?

PRODUCT REVIEW: Soy Protein Isolate

Soy protein is a nutritional supplement that has been used for ages in Asia as a source of nutrient and as a medicine.  Soy Protein isolate as developed in the 1960s made it possible for a product to be developed that didn’t have some of the gastrointestinal issues associated with the original varieties.

Foods that Build Muscle

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When it comes to building a lean muscular physique, focusing only on gym time will not serve you.  While workouts are essential, what you put into your body to fuel these intense training sessions is equally important.

PRODUCT REVIEW: Weight Gainer Serious Mass

Weight Gainer Serious Mass by Optimum Nutrition offers a high carbohydrate, high calorie weight gaining supplement.  Weight Gainer Serious Mass is targeted to those seeking to add bulk and mass fast and with a whopping 1250 calories per serving you would expect to do just that.

Best Thermogenic Foods

When it comes to losing weight most of us will take all the help we can get.  So finding out just which foods may help give you the extra edge is a worthy undertaking.  Keep reading to find out just which foods can seriously ramp up a sluggish metabolism and get you to your weight loss and fitness goals faster.

PRODUCT REVIEW: Prolab N-Large

Prolab N-Large is a weight gaining supplement and one of the most popular by far.  The use of creatine and other potent ingredients are pretty successfully deployed in this formulation to help users gain weight fast.

Why Protein Diets Work

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When it comes to losing weight, who doesn’t want faster more dramatic results?  Well, for most people who undertake a high protein, low carb diet, this is precisely what you get.  But just why is this the case?

Best Diet Tricks

When it comes to sticking with a diet, most people can use all the help they can get.  Changing your life and becoming more health conscious is of course a long term thing.  However, when trying to kick start your weight loss program; a good diet can do wonders.  Keeping yourself motivated is much easier when the scale moves downwards more quickly.

5 Best Butt Workouts

With the New Year here many of us have vowed once again to really let this be the year we get our butts in shape, quite literally.  If this sounds like you then keep reading to learn about the five best butt workout moves you should know.  These moves will tone, strengthen, and define your posterior in all the very best ways.

PRODUCT REVIEW: Dymatize Nutrition Elite Whey Protein

Dymatize Nutrition Elite Whey Protein is a potent whey protein blend designed to really boost your power and bulk.  The whey protein concentrate is blended with whey peptides, whey isolate in the ion-exchange form and comes in a thirty serving tub.

Dukan Diet Phases

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The Dukan diet is the latest diet to hit North America.  Though it has been around for over a decade now in France, it is only more recently that North Americans have begun to explore it as a quick and fairly simple way to shed pounds.

PRODUCT REVIEW: Acetyl L-Carnitine

L-carnitine is a derivative of lysine and methionine which are amino acids.  The L-carnitine gets synthesized primarily in the organs of the liver and kidneys.  From here it can be transported to other areas of the body.

L-carnitine is predominantly found in the tissues that utilize fatty acids.  It is here that it is in the highest concentrations. 

Workouts for your Body Type

According to some experts, determining the best workout for you can be based upon the general body type you have.  Some therefore divide the human body form into three distinct types.  These types can apparently have a profound effect on how you should best go about exercising and losing weight.

PRODUCT REVIEW: Acai Berry

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The Acai berry has recently received a good deal of attention for its amazing antioxidant and health giving effects.  But is the Acai berry really as outstanding as some claim?

Tips to Staying Fit over the Holidays

When it comes to losing weight the holidays can be a real challenge.  However, by simply keeping a few points in mind you can maintain your weight and perhaps even lose a few pounds.

How to Chose the Right Diet for You?

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Ok so perhaps you’ve really overdone it over the holiday season and are looking for a way to start the New Year with a new diet plan.  But just what are you going to chose?

New Years Resolutions 101

With the New Year comes a variety of New Years resolutions, but most people have some sort of exercise and diet resolution in their list.  This being the case it is no doubt important to find ways to stick to your new goals and to stay motivated in the midst of the cold and darker months.

PRODUCT REVIEW: Vitamin B Complex

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The Vitamin Bs are a family of vitamins known most generally as B Complex.  These include a host of different forms of B vitamin and though they are related they also have different specific functions in the body.

Air Travel Health Tips

Over the holidays many of us will be boarding planes and spending time in this enclosed space ripe with stagnant air and potential airborne illnesses.  Squished in like sardines you may have the misfortune of being seated near someone with a cold or worse. 

Fresh Fitness Ideas for the New Year

With the New Year comes an opportunity to shake things up a little in the old fitness routine.  If you've become accustomed to the same old workout, chances are you are starting to plateau and failing to see real results. 

5 New Years Resolutions that Will Change your Life

With the approach of the New Year many of us will begin thinking about how we want the next year of our lives to look.  New Years is a great time for making changes and moving towards a healthier lifestyle.  Below are the top five most important changes you can make in order to improve your health and increase your lifespan.

Meal Planning for Weight Loss

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When it comes to successful weight loss, planning ahead can be the key to success.  However, it is not only your weight loss goals and diet of choice that require some planning, but also your individual meals.