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Knock out the empty calories

June 18, 2010 by GoldenMuscles

Have you heard the term ’empty calories’ and wondered what this means?

Empty calories refers to foods that contain low or no nutritional value but have high amounts of calories. Calories that can result in inches adding to your waistline and that do nothing to benefit your body.

Empty calorie foods provide plenty of energy but do very little to support health and in some cases will even rob your body of essential nutrients that may already be in short supply in your diet. One common problem with these foods is that they can taste great but will have minimal effect for satisfying hunger – and a lot of the time will stimulate it even further so you end up eating even more of them.

If your aim is to maintain a healthy, toned body with healthy body fat levels then a high priority should be to avoid empty calorie foods. Instead focus on foods that are nutritionally dense containing high natural levels of health boosting proteins, good fats, fiber, vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients.

Energy & Calories

May 24, 2010 by GoldenMuscles

Your energy needs and nutrition calories

Food energy

So, any food we eat consists of proteins, fats and carbohydrates. Proteins are used mostly for construction of cells and tissues; fats and carbohydrates are burned in our organism and give it out their energy.

We need this energy because we use it every moment of our life: to keep the body temperature at the level of 36.6 ºC, for each heart beat, for each breath. Our organism spends energy on every movement, conversation, food digestion and performance of vital functions. And the fact that a person gains weight is explained by thermodynamics laws. The idea is that if our organism spends less energy than it receives all unused calories turn into energy supply (fat deposits that are supposed to be used in situations when our organism receives not enough nutrients).

And on the contrary, if our organism spends more energy than it receives we start to lose weight. That’s why stout people who want to lose weight are always advised to do sports and reduce their food calorie content.

So, what are nutrition calories?

Each food product has its energy value expressed in nutrition calories.

Bodybuilding Nutrition Principles – Consume Calories

April 29, 2010April 26, 2010 by GoldenMuscles

The third of our bodybuilding nutrition principles encourages you to consume enough calories. To feel energized enough to complete your workout, you will be required to eat the right amount of calories. A lack of calories will assuredly make you feel like a limp piece of lettuce by the end of your workout routine.

It is a proven fact that less than 1600 calories a day will not contain all the vitamins and minerals that you will require in order to maintain a healthy body, prevent disease and perform well in your chosen sport, or for that matter your daily living. A very low calorie diet, continued for a period of two weeks, can have a very serious effect on your health. They will not provide you with the Dietary Reference Intakes (DRI) of enough of the nutrients needed for good health.

The Recommended Daily Allowances (RDA) were the national standard for the correct amounts of carbohydrates, proteins, fats, and vitamins and minerals that we need in our diets in order to maintain health and growth and to avoid certain deficiency diseases. In recent