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Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Obesity, Your Genes Are as Guilty as You

By Ricardo d Argence

While genes play a role in your body shape, their role should not be used as an excuse to ignore diet and exercise, or else you will never lose weight.

Even though your genes control how many fat cells you have in your body, doesn't mean that you need to fill them with food. Losing weight can be easier than you think, but you must commit a significant amount of effort and hard work in order to be healthy and sculpt your body.

There are some basic body types the thin, lean ectomorph who has little body fat at any time, the athletic and well muscled mesomorphs who can lose fat easily and bulk up quickly, and the endomorph who stores fat. For the endomorph, life can be a little more complex, they gain weight quickly, and it is usually stored as fat, and the fat is very slow to disappear.

If you have an endomorph body, you will gain weight on a regular, healthy diet. That can be discouraging for the most of this kind of people. However, you can lose weight by counting calories and engaging in an exercise program even when it seems you are doomed by genetics.This is a more reasonable and suitable solution to the problem. Instead of having to wait several weeks or months,many people however tend to want something that promises quicker results.

Also be due to some chemical imbalances that can occur in the brain may tendencies to gain excess weight. Even when they have had plenty to eat, a lot of people seem to get a signal to eat more.

Today research is being done that may soon lead to a new appetite suppressant being put on the market. This medication is said to block the impulse to overeat by regulating a hormone in the hypothalamus. Studies are proving successful in the laboratory, and it may not be long yet another new weight control drug is on the market for overweight consumers to try.

Billions can be made each year off a drug that will keep people thin, or make obese people lose weight. With this kind of money at stake, there is little wonder why new weight loss drugs keep popping up, both with and without harmful side effects. What is somewhat shocking is that people would rather use manmade chemicals as their quick cure instead of commit to solving the problem through dedication, willpower, and work.

You can lose those pounds and create a new body with weight training, cardio workouts, and a healthy diet, instead of hoping for a new quick fix for your extra weight. The loss of weight will be gradual, and this will give you time to firm those arms, abs and glutes. Heredity will not lock you into a body shape if you are willing to follow a course to change it. It is not impossible to lose of extra fat, but not without some effort on your part.

Drugs do not successfully help people lose weight permanently, that's a sad fact you have to know about quick weight loss pills. The best way to get in shape and reduce body fat is to combine a regular exercise program with a healthy diet with minimal simple carbs and sugars, which are often the cause of weight gain. - 17269

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10 Easy Ways To Elevate Your Natural Testosterone Output

By Ricardo d Argence

The amount of muscle you can achieve is regulated by testosterone, also known as the Holy Grail of muscle growth. Quite simply, testosterone is the most important muscle-building hormone in your body and is one of the limiting factors that determines how much muscle you can ultimately build. Here is just a small handful of the many amazing benefits that increased testosterone levels will provide you with: Increased muscle size and strength, decreased body fat levels, increased sex drive and sexual endurance, improved mood and decreased levels of "bad" cholesterol.

Sounds pretty good, doesn't it? Well it is, and in this article I'm going to outline 10 simple steps to naturally raise your testosterone levels and achieve all of these incredible benefits. While these steps will not result in "steroid-like" muscle gains, they will definitely contribute to your overall bottomline results.

1) Use compound exercises as the cornerstone of your workouts. I'm talking about the basic, bread-and-butter lifts such as squats, deadlifts, bench presses, rows, chin-ups, dips, lunges and military presses. These exercises will place your muscles under the greatest amount of stress in the gym and will force your body to increase testosterone production.

2) Your intensity and effort should always be at 100% when you are training. If you want to see real muscle mass increases, you have to push yourself to your limit when you work out at the gym. Increasing muscular stress by working out will produce more testosterone.

3) Exercise your leg muscles just as hard as your exercise your upper body. You may already know that growth in the chest, back, and arms will be stimulated by intense training of the legs. The increased testosterone produced through leg training exercises is one of the reasons for this.

4) Increase your EFA consumption. Necessary fatty acids that come from origins such as peanuts, avocadoes, healthy oils such as omega 3 fish oil and flax seed. To boost testosterone levels naturally, nothing beats olive or canola oil.

5) Minimize your consumption of soy. There is a direct negative effect on testosterone levels when the estrogen levels in the body increase, which can be caused by soy protein.

6) Limit your consumption of alcohol. Alcohol has been shown to have quite a dramatic effect on testosterone levels, so try to limit your "binge drinking" nights and keep your alcohol consumption in moderation.

7) Increase your dietary intake of cruciferous vegetables. Broccoli, cauliflower, radishes, turnips, cabbage and brussel sprouts have all been shown to dramatically reduce estrogen levels, thereby raising testosterone.

8) Decrease the levels of stress you are under each day. The highly catabolic horomone cortisol causes testosterone levels to drop severly when you are stressed out.

9) Have more sex. Becoming sexually aroused increases oxytocin in the sytem which increases the production of endorphins and raises levels of testosterone.

10) Make certain that you get enough sleep each night. Insufficient sleep may result in a reduction of your testosterone levels due to the production of cortisol.

Begin implementing these procedures on a regular basis and you will probably experience a substantial growth in your muscle size and strength gains. - 17269

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Do Even Half of Those Muscle Building Programs Work?

By Caleb Lee

Many muscle building programs are experiments or self discovered by weight lifters, which worked for that specific person who discovered it.

Some of you may have tried several programs and found then to not work.

Here are 4 reasons why the programs may not have worked.

#1: Work as Much as You Can at One Time

By this, I mean you have to be working many muscles at one time. This will give your body benefits of having stability and coordination between muscles. However, muscle building programs like to incorporate machines into their workouts. Workout machines tend to focus on one muscle. This is bad because it will take forever to work many muscles, and you do not develop any real life application. Free weights can help you to work many muscles at once. Doing compound exercises like Squats and dead lifts can benefit you in saving time, working many muscles at once, and also gaining stability and coordination between muscles.

#2: The Program is Not Efficient for the Every Day Person's Time Constraints

If your workout came from someone who lived in a gym, you researched and found the wrong program. You want to keep it as short as possible, while still getting a full workout in. Like I said before, compound exercises will do the trick. Make sure to use fewer reps and sets while adding more weight. This will ensure a good amount of resistance to tear the muscle down in a short amount of time.

#3: You are Not Incorporating Enough Intensity

A good muscle building program should have a high amount of weight, while using less reps and sets. Programs using 50% of your one rep max are a waste of time. Your target should be to life around 80-85% of your 1 rep max. If you use less weight, you will see slight improvement until the improvements will stop. Its like your body will have become immune to lifting such a small amount of weight.

#4: More Recuperation During and After Workouts

When you workout, remember to leave time between exercises to let your body settle and start to rebuild. Rushing to your next exercise will not benefit you, and ultimately might hurt you as it will strain the muscles.

When you are done at the gym, you should try to plan a nap in to let your body rest. At night, try to sleep as long as you can, obtaining 8 hours or more of sleep. Having this large amount of sleep will better your body for the next day. Make sure to relax during the day to prevent stress from disrupting your muscle growth.

You can check out more information on a good workout program by looking at my article: DoubleYourGains' 3-5 Beginners Strength Program. - 17269

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Weight Loss Pills Help Little More Than Drinking Coffee Or Tea

By Christine G. Shannon

When you are putting together a plan to lose weight, you will find that there are many occasions when weight loss pills are a part of it. These pills can be instrumental in helping you lose the weight that has been creeping on to you over an extended period of time, and you will discover that it can be part of a weight loss plan, just like a better exercise program. When you are looking to use weight loss pills, you'll find that they can complement a good exercise program, but you have to think about whether not they are safe.

Some weight loss pills contain only herbal or natural ingredients. These work by curbing the appetite and some also include dietary supplements and multi vitamins which can psychologically help a dieter. In addition to the weight loss pills, the dieter will need to watch what they eat, make sure their portions are reasonably sized and get more exercise.

What about chemical or synthetic pills of the non-natural variety - how safe are those? The FDA do not test and monitor over the counter drugs and they do not have proof of effectiveness of such pills. The exception is Alli which is approved as an effective, over the counter diet pill. A lot of people have heard of the problems associated with the Ephedra pill.

When you think about the fact that most over the counter pills are not governed or monitored by the FDA, you will find that with the exception of Alli that you will not know whether they work, what the real side effects that you might experience are or what might happen to you. Many of them use caffeine as a primary ingredient, and will tend to have the same effect on you as tea or coffee, though of course the weight of your wallet will definitely be lighter. You may even find that you can have a nasty allergic reaction to the ingredients that are found in some weight loss pills.

Because overweight people tend to have a discipline issue when it comes to calorie intake, the weight loss pills may do little to change their behaviors or metabolism and they will continue to gain weight, so they will give up. Some weight loss pills claim you can still eat all you want and lose weight, but this has seldom been found to be true.

When you are looking to lose weight and to keep it off, you will find that what you need to do is that you need to make sure that you consistently burn more calories than you take in, and this holds true whether you are using weight loss pills or not. Without this important fact, even the best pill is going to be useless, and while you can always use pills to help, you will find in the long run, they should only be taken under the eyes of a trusted physician.

The best way to lose weight is by giving your body what it needs to be a healthy weight, such as nutritional and fat burning calories, correct portions, eating a number of times a time to keep your metabolism burning fat, and enough variety to keep you committed to a long-term diet.

Weight loss pills are not cheap and they are not all proven safe to use. If you are already on medication for high blood pressure or heart problems, diet pills might be dangerous. The best way to shed pounds is a weight loss plan like FatLoss4Idiots; you should check it out quickly at the link below, which offers what you need for permanent and healthy weight loss. - 17269

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Antioxidant Rich Acai Like You've Never Tasted Before

By Dr. Jerimiah Crossderd

Aside from the acai berry being an unsullied, mouth-watering, organically grown fruit- it is also rich with antioxidants. Antioxidants are nutrients as well as substances that slow the oxidation damage to our body.

The process of the body's cells consuming oxygen, creates a by-product known as a free radical that can do lots of harm to the body. Antioxidants play a huge role in preventing and repairing the damage done by these free radicals. Adding antioxidants to your daily diet is the best way to protect yourself from these free radicals.

The breaking down of the body's DNA and causes of cancer have been linked to Free radicals. They can wreak havoc on the body when left unchecked. The damage can be so severe to the cells that at times free radicals are responsible for them not working at all.

The types of damage these free radicals can do range neurological damage down to hormonal problems. A perfect food with just the right amount of antioxidants to fight these free radicals is found in the acai fruit.

Antioxidants have shown for years that they are the optimal way to maintain, repair, and strengthen the body from free radicals.

Dr. Perricone is the one who introduced the mainstream audience to this amazing fruit by writing a book entitled, the Perricone Promise. In this book he writes that the acai berry is the most perfect food on the planet.

When it comes to a food that will make you look and feel young, Dr. Perricone says that the acai berry has all of the ingredients needed to accomplish this. Also, when looking for a diet that will revitalize your health and slow the aging process Dr. Perricone says look no further than the acai fruit berry.

The acai fruit is known as a super food that contains every nutrient your body needs in fighting harmful free radicals. If your goal is to improve your overall health, as well as strengthen and maintain your body, then you should look further into the numerous benefits of the this amazing fruit.

So, if you are looking for a diet that will provide energetic health, a reduction in aging, and a free radical fighter then look no further than the acai fruit berry. - 17269

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