Category: Diets



Diet program for mass building

Diet program for mass building

The following meal plan can be used when wishing to build muscle mass, as part of an appropriate exercise programme.MEAL 1 (Breakfast): 4 boiled/poached eggs and 2 slice of toast OR Extreme Meal Replacement and 50g oats with skim milk/apple juice. MEAL 2: Baked potato, large salad and chicken/tuna/cottage cheese with 6 Extreme Aminos/Glutamine capsules. [...]


Artificial sweeteners in the bitter facts

Artificial sweeteners in the bitter facts

In this carbohydrate rich society we live in, one thing is true, we Westerners love our sweets. In recent publications in leading medical journals, it has been acknowledged we are the fattest generation the world has ever seen.   Diabetes in children and adult onset diabetes has more than doubled in the last 25 years, [...]


Better diet process

Better diet process

I have many clients asking me about diets and the same questions keep cropping up time after time. There are as many diets as there are questions and each diet seems to create more questions. Is the Atkins diet safe? Does it work? Should I reduce my carbohydrates? How much protein should I eat in [...]


Dietary resveratrol partially mimics caloric restriction

Dietary resveratrol partially mimics caloric restriction

Abstract Resveratrol in high doses has been shown to extend lifespan in some studies in invertebrates and to prevent early mortality in mice fed a high-fat diet. We fed mice from middle age (14-months) to old age (30-months) either a control diet, a low dose of resveratrol (4.9 mg kg−1 day−1), or a calorie restricted [...]


Dirtiest foods

Dirtiest foods

How would you rate your food-safety IQ? I know someone who never washes their fruits and vegetables after bringing them home from the market because he believes that they’re washed at the store. Um, no. Read on to learn about what some call the “5 dirtiest foods” and for a food safety wake-up call… The [...]


Soda is the truth of diet

Soda is the truth of diet

We talk a lot about ”watching what we eat,” but if you never gave a thought to what you ate and instead watched only what you drank, you could probably cut 450 calories a day out of your life. (Yes, nearly a pound of fat loss a week!) That’s what a study from the University [...]


Diet Addictions are No Joke

Diet Addictions are No Joke

The one thing I hear at every competition I have been to, is the athletes swearing by Crystal Lite and Diet Pop to get through the days leading up to their show. These shredded athletes that gave up every form of sugar, dairy and starchy bread. Claimed to have only survived by the sizzling snap [...]


Go Green and Get Rid of Fat Naturally with Green Tea

Go Green and Get Rid of Fat Naturally with Green Tea

Have you ever wondered that losing weight could be so much easier? After hours of running on the treadmill and working out, there are still no favourable outcomes? Then it is time to inculcate a wonder drink in your diets. The drink popularly known as Green Tea is a storehouse of anti-oxidants. Green tea is [...]


Kim Kardashian Getting Sued over Diet Drug QuickTrim

Kim Kardashian Getting Sued over Diet Drug QuickTrim

Recently, the Kim Kardashian diet drug, QuickTrim has come under fire for having potentially dangerously high levels of caffeine, and now a powerful law firm is ready to take action. According to reports, Bursor & Fisher is preparing to file a civil suit against the supplement’s manufacturer, Windmill Health Products, for what it believes were [...]


FitHeads

FitHeads

The FitHeads program is rated 3/5 FitHeads Review: Background No the FitHeads is not some poorly named 1980s comedy movie about some now forgotten early 80s fitness craze. Instead FitHeads is one of those fitness ideas that is long on sales pitch and light on facts. When you visit the FitHeads website ,you don't immediately [...]