Posts Tagged ‘supplements’

Healthy Food Always Beats Supplements

By Mike On April 15, 2009 No Comments

“I need expensive fat loss and muscle building supplements now that I’m exercising regularly!”

People believe there is a shortcut or a faster path to burning fat or building muscle especially when they have incoporated some exercise into their daily lives. Congrats, you’re active again but the second part of the equation needs to change as well-> Diet.

healthy food beats supplements everytime

By now you’re probably thinking I regularly eaves-drop on conversations (see Want to Lose Weight and Build Muscle? Don’t Use Supplements!) but I can’t help but think that more people are falling head over heels for the glossy ad prints in today’s popular magazines.

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Finding Calcium Sources Outside of Dairy

By Mike On March 11, 2009 1 Comment
I’ve been recently cutting down on diary because of some personal tolerance issues and the results have Milk is not your only source of calciumbeen shockingly dramatic. So much so that I’d like share this information on a future post with you. Back to the question at hand!

For decades, the staple dairy food “milk” has been proclaimed the ultimate source of dairy and for two very good reasons. The lactose (milk sugar) naturally in milk and the vitamin D added to it enhance calcium absorption through the gut. (For those who have trouble digesting lactose, ample calcium is absorbed from lactose-reduced milk and from yogurt with active cultures, which is also low in lactose.) But ounce for ounce, nonfat plain yogurt has more calcium than milk, although it contains no vitamin D. Among frozen dairy desserts, nonfat frozen yogurt is

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