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No-carb diets produce the fastest weight loss of any other diet. But there is a catch because the weight lost is mostly water.

Moreover, there are many other nasty side effects with high protein diets.

So, without further ado, here is how high protein diets can decrease your health:

1. Accelerated muscle breakdown: Eating more protein doesn’t translate into spared muscle. In reality, eating more carbs translates into spared muscle. And recall that muscle controls a big portion of your metabolic rate. You see, in the absence of carbs, your body burns muscle for energy.

2. Negative hormone production: High protein eating translates into more cortisol being released into your body. And not only does cortisol break down muscle protein, but it also decreases immunity. So make sure you are well aware of this.

3. Less mental performance: You see, although your body can convert muscle protein to sugar for your brain, it’s not a very efficient process. Subsequently, your mental performance decreases. So if you need to maintain mental performance, high protein diets are probably not for you.  Read more...

Do you take dietary supplements on a regular basis? If so, you are not alone since more than half of the American population takes supplements to improve their health.

After all, the American public spends billions and billions of dollars each year on a wide array of pills and powders.

The main issue here, however, is that lot of these supplements are sold with downright deceptive advertising, and in extreme cases, can cause serious health issues.

Thus, without further delay, here are common falsehoods the supplement companies don’t want you to know:

1. They don’t have side effects: Look, just because the supplement companies market their products as natural does NOT mean there are 100% safe. In fact, there are many “natural” substances that are lethal. Also, remember that a lot of supplements are super concentrated concoctions of different ingredients. Thus, at this level, the naturalness tends to fade.

2. They are backed by valid studies: Most of the sexy charts and graphs you see on the labels and advertisements are made up. You see, the bulk of the data is performed by biased entities that are directly related to the supplement companies themselves.  Read more...

Disassembling a fat cell is only part one of the process. Once disassembled, the fat cell’s contents have to be transported in order to be oxidized.

As a result, maximizing blood flow in your body is necessary for maximum fat loss.

So here is how to lose more weight by increasing blood flow:

1. Do cardio: Doing some extra cardio is the most efficient way to strengthen your heart and circulatory system. Just make sure you don’t do too much because you’ll get a negative return. The best approach here is to do a couple sessions of high intensity cardio per week.

2. Track progress: You should consider tracking the progress you make with regards to blood flow. Blood cholesterol levels and heart rate are two great parameters to begin tracking. Both indicate how healthy your blood flows throughout your body.

3. Control your emotional center: Negative emotions don’t just stay in your head, they have profound effects throughout your entire body. Said effects can age your circulatory system, thus reducing your ability to get blood around efficiently. So make sure you have some type of daily routine that allows you to keep things in balance.  Read more...

We all want to find the secret to a long and productive life. As a result, many of us have been tricked into buying miracle pills and one-hit-wonders.

A much better approach is to make small changes day in and day out that will have a compounding effect over time. This is more sustainable and more realistic than expecting an overnight anti aging cure.

The bottom line is that we don’t age overnight, thus expecting to reverse aging from one day to the next is not reasonable.

So here are some foods you can start incorporating into your daily regimen to increase your lifespan:

1. Nuts: Don’t be turned off by their high fat content because fat is necessary to optimize levels of hormones in your body and to help your nervous system repair itself. For the biggest bang for your buck, stick to walnuts since they have high amounts of heart healing omega-3 fats.

2. Organic cocoa: Harvard researchers found that an indigenous sector of a population drinking cocoa had less heart disease than the same population not drinking cocoa. The key here is to stay away from the commercial formulations as they tend to be loaded with sugar and fat.  Read more...

Is this a flabby upper arms joke? Nope because the truth is that you can lose arm fat without having to touch a weight.

The secret lies in spontaneous fat loss. This method of losing the flab is the easiest one out there, I promise.

It’s so easy because there is no exercise involved and no dietary restrictions. You simply tweak little things here and there and the arm flab goes away just like that.

So without further delay, here are four steps you can take right now to lose those flabby upper arms:

1. Buy foods with labels from not-so-cool places. Studies have shown restaurant goers will unconsciously eat up to 500 fewer calories at dinner if they are presented with wine that comes from an undesirable wine-producing area. You have to be creative here, but it’s worth it.

2. Stick with slow digesting carbohydrates. Studies have shown that obese teenage boys will eat 621 fewer calories per meal if they’ve had slow digesting carbs earlier in the day. The slowest digesting carbohydrates on the planet are legumes and vegetables.  Read more...

Whey protein is extracted from milk and although only 20% of milk is whey, it is an effective supplement for weight loss and muscle gain. The rest of milks protein is called casein and in order to separate the two, the milk must be subjected to a series of purification processes.

Whey protein, if its pure, will be free of most of the causes of milk allergies, as most of these are contained in the casein that is extracted during the purification process. Whey protein therefore can be a good dietary option for people with these kinds of allergies, however whey isn’t necessarily suitable for people who are completely lactose intolerant.

There is no question that whey protein can help with weight loss and muscle building, but do we need a lot of it? What happens if you have too much? Some doctors have been known to advise caution to people using whey protein as if too much is consumed it can cause harmful side effects.

One of the most ironic things about these side effects is that your working out practices can result in not being able to work out anymore. Gout is the reason for this and it is one of the most unpleasant side effects that can be brought on by excess protein.  Read more...

A health supplement (also known as a dietary supplement) is a preparation that is usually found in the form of a shake, powder or tablet and is made to contain the specific nutrients either that your diet is lacking, or that your body simply has a natural deficiancy of.

There is international disagreement as to whether these supplements fall under the category of food, or drugs. Supplements providing dietary minerals or vitamins are recognised by the UNs highest authority of food standards (the Codex Alimentarius Commission) as a food item.

Probably the most common type of supplement is protein, but there are many, what you might call sub-categories within protein. For example, whey isolates, which usually contain amino peptides for muscle growth & recovery, Taurine for improved energy output and L-Glutamine for recovery.

Powdered proteins are often used by bodybuilders. These proteins will normally be consumed immediately before and after a workout, or in place of a meal. The reason this type of protein supplement is so popular is because a regular intake of protein into the body means healthy muscle growth and repair.  Read more...