If you are on a mission for perfect abdominal muscles, the best thing that you can do to enhance your exercise results is to implement a carefully chosen abs diet. In addition to reducing any excess fat that layers your waistline and has a negative impact on the appearance of your stomach, the right foods will give you the nutrients and strength that you need to function at optimal levels. This means that you will have fuel to burn and a lean waistline to show for it.



Regardless of how you work your abdominal muscles, having a heavy layer of stubborn fat will prevent your from getting noticeable results. Sure building greater muscle means burning more fat, but as you increase the demands on your body you will find an equally increased demand for food. Getting the correct food with the proper nutrients is essential for maintaining a healthy, strong ...

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Maintaining the right diet and nutrition can help improve your overall health. It can also increase you energy levels and prevent diseases. In some cases, a good diet plan may be instrumental in keeping psychological disorders such as depression at bay.



Benefits of Good Nutrition

Good diet and nutrition is more than just weight loss. It’s about paying attention to what you eat and which foods are better for you. Below are some of the known benefits of maintaining a healthy diet and nutrition.

•    Helps control body weight – Maintaining your ideal body weight is necessary for good health. Too much or too less can lead to and aggravate all sorts of health problems.
•    Increases Your Energy Levels – A healthy diet entails a decrease in the intake of food items that are high in sugar. Doing this saves your body from experiencing sugar highs and lows. As a result, you ...

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We get a lot of emails from our readers wanting to know the top 10 diet tips that you can add to your daily lives to help them lose weight. Most have discussed their displeasure with miracle, lose weight fast or fad diets and are looking for real solutions to help with long term weight loss. The Newsfitness.com team has come up with what we believe to be the Top 10 Diet Tips to help you achieve your Weight goals and more importantly maintain the weight loss achieved.

1.    Regular Sleep Patterns of up to 10 hours per night

It has been found in numerous studies that sleep deprivation increases the hormones in the body that craves food whilst decreasing other hormones that help to tell you when you are full. Researchers have found that people who sleep 2 – 4 hours are 73% more likely to be obese then ...

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With all of the dieting noise around at the moment around low Carb and Low Fat diets a lot of information has been dispensed about the benefits of these diets. But which one is better for you to lose weight? Researchers have now taken up these questions of which diet provides the better results. The answers are discussed in detail below. However what the researchers didn’t analyze is the combination of the Low carb or Low fat diet with regular exercise. I’m sure that the results would have evened out if this had been taken into account. Don’t get me wrong diet is important for managing weight with eating less produced and more natural foods and grains, however in the absence of a regular exercise program to burn those excess pounds your body then are the benefits sustainable? Maybe that will be included in the next ...

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We all have seen the commercials touting omega 3 fish oil as the next best thing for the heart. Fish and fish oil are the best sources of ocosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) which are good types of fat.  However, our bodies cannot manufacture these fatty acids, which means, that we must get our required amount from the diet.



Proven to be completely safe, omega 3 fish oil does come with numerous benefits. It is also recommended by fitness trainers to be taken by their clients to help them build muscle, lose fat and improve their fitness condition.

The following are just some of the health benefits of omega 3 fish oil fatty acids:

• Reduces the risk of heart attacks by lowering triglyceride levels
  
• Reduces the risk for abnormal heart rhythms
  
• Reduces the risk of strokes
  
• Slows down the buildup of atherosclerotic plaques
  
• Lowers blood pressure
  
• Reduces the ...

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As February is observed in the United States as American Heart month the Newsfitness.com team have researched the 3 main steps that you can easily implement in your lifestyle that will help your body fight heart disease. These are during meal times creating a healthy heart conscious diet, completing regular exercise and quitting smoking.

 

 

Heart Healthy Foods

What are the foods that are highly recommended by the expert nutritionists that will help to fight off heart disease? Below is a list of a few foods that have previously been proven to aid the heart.  

1.)    Nuts

Nuts are an excellent source of Vitamin E especially almonds which contain healthy oils and fiber that helps keep cholesterol level low. A lower cholesterol will aid blood flow around the body. This is important as it means the heart doesn’t have to work as hard to meet the bodies blood demands ...

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As of recent years, with the increasing awareness of health and fitness, people have been looking to herbs for maintaining good health. One of the most popular natural miracles are the acai berries.


Acai berries are small, round drupes that are around 1-inch in diameter in black-purple color. These are sometimes mistaken as grapes, but these have less pulp than the more popular fruit. For many centuries, this berry has been used by indigenous people in the Amazon region to help enhance health and vitality.




Generally, the enhancement of health and vitality has been tagged as the main benefits of acai berries. However, apart from this important benefit, there are also other advantages that these fruits bring.

Benefits of the Acai Berry

• Increases span of life – this can be seen through research based on the longevity of life of the indigenous people in the Amazon region who have been enjoying ...

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There are many substances that are found in the food that people eat. One of these natural substances is called “Creatine”, which is often found in red meat. According to studies, Creatine has been proven to be extremely helpful for those who are into body building. As a result, most of the body builders and power lifters make sure that their diet includes a dose of Creatine as a dietary supplement.




Although most people are not body builders, it can be said that taking this substance as a supplement has its risks and benefits. Some of these benefits include the following:

1.    Creatine has the ability to rebuild the body’s adenosine triphosphate or ATP. This is a chemical in the human body that helps power the muscles. When a person is lifting an object, the ATP does its work and helps the muscles of the body contract, giving the ...

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In the bodybuilding world, big names often come and go as people continue to find ways and means to make bodies bigger in a healthier way. These days, a chemical called the Human Growth Hormone or GH has been making waves in the world of bodybuilders. GH has been said to have a number of benefits especially when given in high doses for those who are trying to build more body mass during the later years.

 

 

 

 

There are concerns that have been raised as to whether or not GH levels should be raised naturally or if bodybuilders can benefit more if they inject GH into their systems. As with all dietary supplements, it is always best to consult a doctor regarding this plan of action. It has happened more than once that when a person simply takes dietary supplements because he or she simply wants to, the chances of putting ...

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How does a person decide what he chooses to eat? Is it the flavor, texture, convenience, experience, or ingredient of the food? Or does one simply consume any food that comes to mind simply for immediate gratification without any thought given to the possible effects of the food choices made. In most cases, people choose just about any food that tastes good, but most of these end up being bad for the health.

What is Nutrient Density?

Most people do not mind the nutritional value of the food that they eat. Unfortunately, nutrient density should be the utmost important thing to consider when choosing food. The amount of nutrients found in a certain volume of food is what dieticians refer to as “nutrient density”. As it is, food that has more nutrients tend to contain fewer calories, and some of the best examples of nutrient dense foods are those that ...

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