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Omega-3's? That's the whole benefit?
That's a huge benefit however, there are few other sources of Omega-3s in our daily diet.
Which is unsurprising, because mammals suck at making omega-3s, and plants are a bad source of healthful omega-3s.
Let's not get too excited.
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Fasting has real and proven health benefits. I have heard physicians state that it is the single most benficial thing you can do for your health. From Wikipedia: Research suggests there are major health benefits to caloric restriction. Benefits include reduced risks of cancer, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, insulin resistance, immune disorders, and more generally, the slowing of the aging process, and the potenti…
Calorific restriction is not the same as fasting. Calorific restriction is eating less. During fasting you will lack vital nutrients that cannot be stored by the body. When you end a fast your blood sugar level will sky rocket, which is also bad for you.
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Grass-fed beef is leaner than fattier corn-fed beef.
And? Higher-fat proteins create satiety faster. Eating more fat doesn't make you fat. If it it's lean beef that you're after, specify "lean beef", not "grass fed beef". There are plenty of retail cuts on a corn-fed cow that are plenty lean. A corn-fed tri-tip is going to be less fatty than a grass-fed chuck. If you're aiming for lean protein, your cut selection is way more important than which cow the cut comes from.…
(Incidentally: I prefer to eat the beef of an animal that is free-range and grass-fed, then finished with some healthy corn feed without drugs.)
I'm going to jump right into the idea of fasting for 6 days and the unfortunate reality that most people in our field(s) don't. 1. know how to lose weight (really) 2. know how to eat 3. know how to workout Here, if you want to try fasting, which I do recommend, give this a shot. http://www.leangains.com/ or do the Warrior diet (one huge meal a day). A 16/8 fast is great. Heck, I sometimes even do an eat-stop-eat way…
This is generally good advice, but avoiding carbs is unnecessary. There is basically no compelling evidence that avoiding carbs causes people to lose weight faster than other diets, and there is quite a bit of evidence that properly consumed carbs help muscle growth. Carbs before heavy weightlifting make sure your glycogen stores are replenished, i.e. you are more likely to hit your reps. For some people, compliance…
Unless you are actually exercising, foods that take long to digest and slowly release energy are better for your mood and concentration. A spike in the blood sugar is followed by a drop in the blood sugar which leads to cravings. I guess the blood sugar analysis in the body is a based on calculus.
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http://www.t-nation.com/readArticle.do?id=1526539 Summary: resistance training is most effective, then interval training (high intensity and lower intensity), and then steady state high intensity cardio training, and finally least effective steady state low intensity cardio training.
What a shock that a body building website would say that. I can't believe it. Let me ask Microsoft if I should use Linux for my servers or not, hold on BRB. The reality is that an hour of cardio is going to burn many, many more calories than 15 minutes of lifting. Now, if you hate cardio and can't stand to do it for an hour, but you love lifting, then obviously you're better off lifting. But if you can learn to enjoy…
1. How many calories used to rebuild and strengthen the muscles?
2. How many more calories do your bigger and stronger muscles burn even when not in use?
This goes for both cardio and weight lifting.
I'm going to jump right into the idea of fasting for 6 days and the unfortunate reality that most people in our field(s) don't. 1. know how to lose weight (really) 2. know how to eat 3. know how to workout Here, if you want to try fasting, which I do recommend, give this a shot. http://www.leangains.com/ or do the Warrior diet (one huge meal a day). A 16/8 fast is great. Heck, I sometimes even do an eat-stop-eat way…
This is generally good advice, but avoiding carbs is unnecessary. There is basically no compelling evidence that avoiding carbs causes people to lose weight faster than other diets, and there is quite a bit of evidence that properly consumed carbs help muscle growth. Carbs before heavy weightlifting make sure your glycogen stores are replenished, i.e. you are more likely to hit your reps. For some people, compliance…
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That's a huge benefit however, there are few other sources of Omega-3s in our daily diet.
It's 30mg/100g. That's an order of magnitude lower than most fish, two orders of magnitude less than the best fish, and about what you'd get from a turkey sandwich. Which is unsurprising, because mammals suck at making omega-3s, and plants are a bad source of healthful omega-3s. Let's not get too excited.
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This is generally good advice, but avoiding carbs is unnecessary. There is basically no compelling evidence that avoiding carbs causes people to lose weight faster than other diets, and there is quite a bit of evidence that properly consumed carbs help muscle growth. Carbs before heavy weightlifting make sure your glycogen stores are replenished, i.e. you are more likely to hit your reps. For some people, compliance…
Do you have a response to Gary Taubes et al. who have observed in recent years that the "calories in vs. calories out" hypothesis has no basis in the science of human metabolism, and that insulin, the hormone secreted in response to consumption of carbohydrates, has a very well-understood and primary role in fat storage?
http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2011/08/carbohydrate-h...
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This is generally good advice, but avoiding carbs is unnecessary. There is basically no compelling evidence that avoiding carbs causes people to lose weight faster than other diets, and there is quite a bit of evidence that properly consumed carbs help muscle growth. Carbs before heavy weightlifting make sure your glycogen stores are replenished, i.e. you are more likely to hit your reps. For some people, compliance…
Do you have a response to Gary Taubes et al. who have observed in recent years that the "calories in vs. calories out" hypothesis has no basis in the science of human metabolism, and that insulin, the hormone secreted in response to consumption of carbohydrates, has a very well-understood and primary role in fat storage?
For example, one of his criticisms of the calories in/calories out theory is that it fails to explain bodyweight stability. Simple calculus shows this to be false.
http://crazybear.posterous.com/the-calories-incalories-out-m...
Another one of his tricks is to focus on calories above maintenance, while completely ignoring differences in maintenance needs, in an attempt at reducto-ad-absurdum. People unfamiliar with the model don't realize he can write 3000 words and never mention the actual caloric gap between fat and thin people.
http://crazybear.posterous.com/how-1-graph-reveals-what-3000...
Gary Taubes is willing to mislead people to sell books.
Also, the calories in/calories out model has been empirically verified on a number of occasions. This is the first of many studies on the topic:
http://openlibrary.org/books/OL6617921M/A_biometric_study_of...
Any textbook on sports medicine will give you a whole lot more references, including specific details on various corrections and second order terms. I'd love to quote a few more, but unfortunately my textbook is in a storage compartment 50 blocks away.
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Your advice to workout hard and short instead of cardio is wrong. Working out at all is better than not working out. But cardio exercise (e.g. running and/or biking) for sustained periods of time will burn much more calories. And that's what weight loss is all about. Calories in vs. calories out. I speak from not only the obvious facts but also experience, I lost over 100lbs from January 2009 to July 2010 and got hea…
You are correct that sustained aerobic exercise burns more calories than an anaerobic activity such as weightlifting. The benefit of weightlifting in particular is that, by building more muscle, you are increasing your body's BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate) because more muscles == more energy necessary to run them. This translates to your body burning more calories while at rest.
It really comes down to personal preference. Do the workout you're going to be able to keep doing.