Whey, casein, soy— there are several different proteins to choose from, but what role do they play in your fitness plan? If your goal is to build lean muscle and burn fat, it’s essential to know the difference between protein supplements so that you can best use them to your advantage. Let’s take a closer at what the research says about the different kinds of protein available, and how you can best time them to increase and maintain lean muscle while burning fat.
While some seem to have an easy time with weight loss, others can have a real challenge maintaining a healthy weight. Research at the San Diego School of Medicine shows that the key to maintaining weight loss may be as simple as a handful of walnuts.
The ability to get lean by producing extra brown fat and enhancing and activating existing brown fat represents a promising way to burn fat. Several landmark discoveries and approaches to this are being explored at major research centers and universities worldwide, with great excitement!
“Dad bod” sounds like a cute and endearing name, but there’s nothing cute about it. In fact, it can be quite serious. A dad bod is a telltale sign that you are carrying excess body fat, and it’s a red flag that obesity and other health problems are around the corner. If you’d like do drop a few pounds and tighten things up, here are seven steps to put the brakes on a dad bod before it becomes a serious health concern.
The second part of our summer fat-loss tips gives you another 25 ways to burn more calories and get the exercise you need. These tips are particularly useful if you’re in a rut and miss workouts in the gym.
This two-part article will fill you in on 50 ways to burn more calories and get the exercise you need. No more excuses— if one idea doesn’t work for you, perhaps 10 or 20 of the others will. Use a little imagination and you can burn more calories almost anywhere.
Did you know that your body has two kinds of fats? No, seriously. Just like the fat that you can consume in foods, your body is naturally comprised of both good and bad fats. The question that researchers have been asking for years, is how we can increase the amount of “good fat” while reducing the bad?
Most people don’t associate chilling out with losing fat. In fact, it is often the opposite as the frustration of losing fat is anything but relaxing, and isn’t that the purpose of chilling?
Just as scientists and the public were inaccurate in regarding all dietary fat as “fat,” so, too have they been in regarding the different forms of body fat as “fat.” When scientists, dietitians and clinicians looked past their entrenched bias, they discovered that some forms of dietary fat are more readily burned versus being stored, specific fatty acids act as hormone precursors and still others offer health benefits that remain to be fully understood.
