Fitness Newsletters - April 2007

Protein Needs To Build Muscle
Fitness and health depends on a balance. Balance of exercise and diet. Balance of mind and body. Balance of nutrients in your diet. Protein is a basic essential in everyone's diet from vegetarian to carnivore! Yes you also need fats and carbohydrates but protein rounds out the balance. You can achieve a healthy diet through all types of proteins; they do not have to be animal sources. I know this is a controversial subject but I firmly believe you can get sufficient protein going the vegetarian route but do also believe in supplementation to get the right amount of protein.

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Food Portions - How Much Is Enough?
Have you noticed that the size of muffins, candy bars, and soft drinks has grown over the years? How about portions of restaurant foods like pasta dishes, steaks, and french fries? As portion sizes grow, people tend to eat more-often more than they need to stay healthy. Larger food portions have more calories. Eating more calories than you need may lead to weight gain. Too much weight gain can put you at risk for weight-related diseases like type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and some cancers.

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Muscle Makeover - Doyle's Transformation
Weight loss is really hard. Anybody who tells you it's not is probably trying to sell you a fad diet or some sort of "magic" pill. That said, it's important that we remain realistic about both our goals and the journey itself as we strive to lose weight. Unrealistic expectations will often set us up for disappointment. Therefore, I set these realistic goals for myself when I started on this transformation challenge!

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How Do I Find The Nutrient Details of Meals?
Q. Every evening I eat a homemade Indian dinner but I don't know how to work out the calories, protein and carbs grams since not every food has the nutrient details listed. How do I find these details?

A. In terms of the ratio of protein-carbs-fat, I would recommend a diet like this. Each meal should consist of one of each macronutrients. A sample meal is below:

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