All about Green smoothie
Even the comic books heroes of our youth have led the way: Whenever danger threatened in default, the druid Getafix touches its made of green leaves and herbs potion to support his unyielding Gallic village in the fight against the Romans with magical powers. Even Popeye the sailor fell back on the tried and tested box spinach to inflate his muscles when needed. However, despite the laudable pioneering role of a fictional childhood hero, the man came a few years ago to the glorious idea. Green leaves and green vegetables in liquid form also can be taken in everyday life. It is not so much about the pure muscle power, as much more about the health per se, which is intended to promote the little green helpers. Over about 5 years, the fruit and vegetable cocktails experienced an incomparable...
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Myths about chocolate
Sweets make you fat. This wisdom have been etched in the minds of the people and it’s also right per se. The high sugar content transforms the goodies in true energy bombs that despite a high number of calories hardly have nutrients and thus bring our energy budget duly out of joint. When this “sugar bomb” combined with too little exercise, a high Sweets suggests consumption sooner or later often detrimental to our weight and thus harms the cardiovascular system. Among the favorite snacks of Americans chocolate always have counts in all imaginable varieties and variants. However, the high popularity cannot hide the dark side. Chocolate is rightly considered calories bomb, already 100 grams of sweet delicacy correspond with 500 calories about one-fifth of the average daily energy requirement. Profit from chocolate and cocoa. Often this goes down, however,...
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About sense and nonsense of pills and supplements
Dietary supplements omnipresent in our society: not only in pharmacies but also in drugstores – and even at discount stores – there a wide range of pills and Pulverchen. The print ads in Fitness magazines makes big promises and would almost convince a reader that with the right product everything works as mind of its own: Lose weight? Bring on the “fat burners”! More muscles? In this review article you learn the most important thing about food supplements: what is worth and what you can do better? In the first half about some essential nutrients such as vitamins, which today are no longer optimal care for us. In the second part of the article deals with the question of whether supplements can help you faster achieve your personal fitness goals. Recent studies and cases of consumption of Vitamin Supplements....
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Vitamin D, the sunshine vitamin underestimated
Vitamins and their income on food supplements are often controversial. This also applies to the sun vitamin D, which is a true multi-talent and body using sunlight can be made even. But does the body’s vitamin D production? The intake through food is difficult because it is only in some animal foods. Despite intensive research, which deals with the tasks of vitamin D in the human body, scientists still argue about the real need for vitamin D amount. Especially in the US and others countries in which the winter takes a long time, the lack of sunlight may combine with the thick winter clothing at a reduced vitamin D levels because vitamin D can be formed only by sunlight irradiation of the skin. In this case vitamin D is essential for many processes in the human body. So it...
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Water consumption and our daily needs
The human body consists of more than half of water. The exact number varies according to gender, age, body weight and muscle mass or fat. The adult mens proportion is, for example 60%. Only this fact shows how important water is for the human body. But how much water you should drink daily and what are the consequences of a loss-making fluid intake for the body? The water supply of a 25 – 51 year old adult in averages about 2600 ml per day. 1410 ml, the body takes on by drinks and 860 ml takes on by food. The less you eat, the more you should therefore drink. A cucumber or tomato, for example, consist of more than 90 percent from water. Additional water, about 330 ml, placed the body in the form of metabolic water it’s available...
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Protein consumption: correct proportions
Protein intake in sport is frequently controversial.Again and again is a sensible intake to the debate regarding muscle growth and performance improvement. But also for endurance athletes, it is a non-negligible issue. Protein (from the Greek proteios- “senior”, which highlights importance of this nutrient) plays in the human body the vital role almost all life functions and serves as the useful source of nitrogen element (N). The body consists of about 16% of protein. All body tissues such as muscle, connective tissue, nerve cells or organs contain certain proportions protein. Here proteins perform a variety of functions such as contraction of the muscle fibers, transportation of substances between the cells and the blood stream, as enzymes in the acceleration of substance transformations (digestion and absorption of nutrients), or as components of the immune system (antibodies). Important for understanding of...
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