Answering the question: What is my body fat percentage is key to understanding the difference between "weight loss" and "fat loss." Most people are familiar with "weight loss" - they are above their recommended weight range and need to lose the extra kilos. If you do not answer what is my body fat percentage before starting a weight loss programme, you could be losing lean muscle along with the fat. A healthy weight loss programme is one that burns fat while...
It's just over a week into 2012 and you have probably just about run out of excuses to avoid going back to the gym. Fear not - What we've got for you is 5 tips to help you restart your gym workouts as painlessly as possible. The idea here is to first help you figure out why you were unhappy about having to restart your gym workouts in the first place. By the end of the post, you should be...
According to a recent study this week, it certainly seems so. There are two components to the study conducted by the researchers at Pennington Biomedical Research Center. The first one says that no matter what you eat, if you eat more calories than you need, you will put on weight. The second component of the study showed that if you eat more protein than fat (carbohydrates remaining constant), your body stores less fat. In other words, does protein stop fat...
US News and World Report just announced their list of Best Diets 2012 with the DASH Diet taking the #1 spot as the Best Diet of 2012. 25 diets were voted on by 22 health professionals and the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension or DASH was the one to take the top spot. That's right - a diet that was designed to stop hypertension actually beat out overall diets. Not surprising if you look at the details to find that...
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