Category: Nutrition & Supplements



In-Depth Look at Carbohydrate
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In-Depth Look at Carbohydrate

Simple Carbohydrates: Monosaccharides: which include Glucose, (also called dextrose) Fructose (also called levulose, or fruit sugar) and Galactose. Disaccharides: which include Sucrose, Lactose, and Maltose Simple carbohydrates or sugars may cause a fast rise in blood sugar, thereby stimulating excess insulin production, which causes a fast drop in blood sugar. Glucose and Maltose have the [...]


Omega 3 and Omega 6 Difference
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Omega 3 and Omega 6 Difference

Both the omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids belong to a group of polyunsaturated fats called ‘essential’ because they are necessary to life and to health yet we cannot make them in the body – they must be obtained from diet. They cannot be inter-converted and both must be present in the diet in a proper [...]


Frequent Meals Importance
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Frequent Meals Importance

When you skip a meal the body goes into a “fasting mode”. During this fasting, carbohydrates, protein and fats are all used for energy. Carbohydrates are the number one source of fuel for the body, followed by protein and then fat. As this fasting phase continues the following things happen: The muscle glycogen storage deposits [...]


Nutrition For Optimal Recovery
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Nutrition For Optimal Recovery

One way to achieve optimum performance is to focus on post exercise food choices. Since carbohydrates are the primary source of fuel during intense activities and are also used during endurance activities, the restoration of muscle and liver glycogen (the body’s storage form of carbohydrates) stores is important to allow proper recovery. An adequate intake [...]


Role Of Essential Fats In Bodybuilding
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Role Of Essential Fats In Bodybuilding

We all have heard that fats make you fat, such as the hard and hydrogenated fats, also we are constantly being told that fats will also make you ill; mostly because of processing (frying) and hydrogenation and overheating of supermarket and low quality oils. As a result many people have become fat phobic and are [...]


Sadness of Dieting Deprivation
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Sadness of Dieting Deprivation

Well the dieting season is upon us again. Now is the time that people who go onto diets automatically think; starvation, cut-down, eat lettuce, bored taste buds, joyless eating, eat more lettuce. Boring diets, deprivation diets, “faddy” diets, food group eliminating diets, most commercial diets send out the wrong message. Your body is not an [...]


Create a Bodybuilding Diet
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Create a Bodybuilding Diet

Ok, so you want to get huge?! You get into the gym, pound weights till you have a big red head, go home and that’s it, you maybe think that all you have to do. Pump the weights. If only it was that simple. Nutrition plays a very large part of recovery and growth. Without [...]


Your Body and Water
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Your Body and Water

It has been proven through various studies that 75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated (but is that an excuse for the Sabres?). Also, it is perceived that the thirst mechanism is so weak that in 37% Americans it is often mistaken for hunger. People seem to go about their busy lives without notice to how [...]


Healthy Way Gaining Weight
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Healthy Way Gaining Weight

There are many reasons why a person may require weight gain due to being underweight. Genetics may play a major part in keeping a person lean. Some medical conditions may alter the way food is digested or have an effect on a person’s food intake. So the first port of call for any underweight individual [...]


Because Of Cortisol Losing Muscle
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Because Of Cortisol Losing Muscle

What is Cortisol? Cortisol if often referred to as the ‘Stress Hormone’ as although it is produced naturally throughout the day it is released in greater amounts as a response to stress. The adrenal gland is where Cortisol is produced and released by the body in varied levels throughout the day. Cortisol levels are generally [...]


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