High Fructose Corn Syrup Activates Fat Genes
According to a recent study published in the journal Cell Metabolism, high-fructose corn syrup activates certain genes that keep you fat. Ok, so let me give it to you straight…
Television Shortcircuits Fat Loss Efforts! Fit People Are Not Immune…
Australian researchers analyzed the data from over 2000 men and women who exercise intensely for at least 2.5 hours a week to determine how their television watching habits impacted their fat loss. The results may surprise you…
Water Effects Workout Performance
If you have not read the article written by Blythe Alberg entitled, How Water Consumption Effects Fat Loss, I highly recommend that you do so. The article explains how we simply do not get enough water, how dehydration can short circuit fat loss results and exactly how much water you should drink when implementing a fat loss program. This article will explain how low grade dehydration can impact performance in the gym.
Vitamin D and Fat Loss – Is Vitamin D Deficiency Sabotaging Your Fat Loss?
If you have ever hit a fat loss plateau then it is possible that a deficiency of one of nature’s most powerful vitamins is to blame? A recent study found that people who had the highest levels of vitamin D in their blood enjoyed significantly more weight loss than those with lower levels…
Weight Training – Does It Help with Fat Loss?
This is a controversial subject in the fitness world because the research has been somewhat conflicting. Some research has found that short term weight training results in a decrease in insulin sensitivity which would theoretically decrease fat loss. These results can be somewhat misleading, however, because when weight training is part of your regular workout program it seems to improve fat loss…
Low Vitamin C Impairs Fat Loss
Research presented at the Experimental Biology meeting in 2006 evaluated the importance of vitamin C in fat loss. Researchers at Arizona State University studied 20 overweight subjects and followed them through a weight loss program. As the subjects lost weight, those people who were supplementing with 500 mg vitamin C daily enjoyed stable vitamin C levels while the other subjects vitamin C levels dropped steadily…