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Essential Foods In Your Diet
When dieting, some people may try to take certain types of food out of their usual meals. But there are also certain food groups that are essential and should not be taken out of the daily meal just to lose weight. If these foods are taken out, they can sometimes even make it hard for you to lose weight since they provide the body with the essential nutrients it needs to function. Here are some of... [Read More]
Common Diet Mistakes
People go on a diet in order to maintain a healthy weight. But in trying to get fast results, many people may result to making common diet mistakes to achieve their weight loss goals. Here are some of them.Eating Less Than NormalSome people think that eating less than the usual can help them reach their weight loss goals faster. Although it might work, there can also be unwanted consequences. And ... [Read More]
Metabolism Myths: Building Muscle Increases Metabolism
With regards to metabolism, the common belief is as you build more muscle, your metabolism will significantly increase - which means you will burn more fats and increase weight loss. Trainers, physicians, and other fitness experts often get asked whether a person should do more aerobic exercises or more strength training workouts. Before arriving at any conclusions, you should first look at how mu... [Read More]
Metabolism Myths: Muscle is the Most Metabolically Active Tissue in the Body
Whenever you talk about metabolism, the topic of building muscle always crops up. It maybe because we always hear that muscle is the most metabolically active tissue in the body. If you really want to increase your metabolic rate, you should know what does the trick.Metabolic rate is determined by the amount of fat-free mass in you body. Fat-free Mass (FFM) is made up of internal organs, muscle, a... [Read More]
Metabolism Myths: Thirst and Dehydration
You may have heard that by the time you are thirsty, it's too late, and you're probably already dehydrated. To determine if there's any truth to this, first you should know what goes on in your body when you're thirsty. Plasma osmolality is a measure of the concentration of substances such as sodium, chloride, potassium, urea, glucose, and other ions in blood. When you plasma osmolality increases,... [Read More]
Metabolism Myths: Exercise Decreases Appetite
You're on a new weight loss program, and you've restricted your calorie intake to drastic levels. You try to ignore your hunger pangs, even though you're feeling rather faint for lack of food. Everyone keeps telling you that your reduced food intake won't matter since exercise curbs appetite. Not so says Dr. Mark Dedomenico. A lot of exercisers do not make up for the energy they use up during exer... [Read More]
Quick Weight Gain Means Slow Metabolism
Whether you gain weight fast or lose weight slowly, do not blame it all on your metabolism.Dr. Mark Dedomenico says if you want to lose weight and maintain that weight for life, you should befriend your metabolism. A person's resting metabolic rate (RMR) decreases by 10 percent every 10 years. If your RMR is 1,500 calories in your 20s, your RMR would drop to 1,350 calories during your 30s. by the ... [Read More]
Busting The Diet Myths
As the world becomes more obsessed with weight loss and dieting, everybody seems to have the right to claim that their method of losing weight is the correct way of doing so. However, we should realize that our bodies work differently. Your weight loss plan may work differently on my body. It is all about how to filter out the good advice and eliminating the not-so-good ones.&nbs... [Read More]