Archive for October, 2007
Mainstream bodybuilding: a contradiction in terms
Bodybuilder’s deserve mainstream publicity; however today’s masses are not willing to accept the athletic giants. Even so, they brutally and repeatedly train themselves over years of torture, reaching for greater physical refinement. They stay motivated in the midst of controversy. They make sacrifices to remain mentally and physically consistent. They don’t train within a month or season - they maintain a bodybuilding lifestyle. Read more
No commentsGlycemic index and glycemic load
A lot of dieting strategies over recent years place less stress on fat and more on carbohydrate. Nutritional outlines by medical professionals have revealed the affect carbohydrates have on body composition and health; such as: The Zone, The Paleo Diet - the Atkin’s Diet set out to completely avoid them. Nutritional experts everywhere adopted a way to determine the quality of any carbohydrate-containing food using a Glycemic Index. The GI was introduced in 1981 to provide a ranking system for carbohydrates based on how they affect blood glucose levels. To this day, the GI usually compares, gram-for-gram, the impact of 50 grams of carbohydrate between varying foods. This is where critics rang in to dispute the usefulness of such data - introducing the Glycemic Load, comparing GI to actual portion sizes. Read more
2 commentsPhysical fitness is a human birth right
It’s amazing when you think about it. A culture that once perished in the face of famine, is now ailing amidst overindulgence. Thousands of years ago, humans endured through a strong connection between food procurement and physical exertion. Today, physical activity is often an optional part of daily living. Modern medicine and technology has helped prolong mortality despite growing health concerns and metabolic disorders – but at what cost? Two basic variables have been neglected: balanced energy consumption and frequent physical exertion. We have become too lazy, too over-fed and frequently malnourished. Read more
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