Nutrient Stacking – The Power of Small Diet Changes
August 20, 2009 | 4 Comments
Everyday you hear about a new nutrient or food that has superpowers – green tea helps with weight loss, fish oil helps with weight loss, vinegar helps control blood sugar, etc…etc…
While this all sounds good in the headlines, the question we should be asking is – “Will effects make an impact on my life and health?” or as my friend Alwyn Cosgrove would say “Is there a real world effect?”
The answer is yes. They do have what can amount to a very important effect through what I call nutrient stacking.
Nutrient stacking is the cumulative beneficial effect of small improvements in your body’s function that lead to increased weight loss, improved health, and ultimately a longer life.
To illustrate this point let me use two examples from the latest issue of Strong, Fit, & Healthy. In one of the Research Reviews I share a study that looked at how cinnamon can help control blood sugar levels.
Adding 1 TBSP of cinnamon to your oatmeal each day won’t be the difference between you having diabetes or not but the addition of several small factors such as making an effort to regularly using cinnamon, vinegar, and even an alpha-lipoic acid supplement each day as part of your diet/routine will amount to you gaining better control on your blood sugar levels. When you then stack large impact factors like eating less starches and regular exercise, you will have an unbeatable combination.
The second example comes from the Key Concepts section this month’s newsletter. The key concept this month is eating 5-6 meals per day. In this I discuss one of the benefits being an increased thermic effect of food.
The thermic effect of food is the amount of calories that you body burns from digesting and processing the foods that you eat.
The boost in calorie burning you get from consistently eating 5-6 meals per day isn’t ground breaking; however when you combine it with other thermic effect of food boosting strategies such as eating more protein (which takes more calories to digest and process compared to carbohydrates and fats), you will start to see a ‘real world’ increase in the calories your burn from the thermic effect of food.
To wrap things up, nutrient stacking is a powerful concept that can be applied to many different aspects of your diet beyond the two examples I shared above. Whenever you learn about foods/nutrients that can improve your health, performance, or weight loss always think of what you can combine with it to further enhance the effect.
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Workout of the Month – Metabolism Maximizer Advanced
August 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment
So how did you do with Phase 1.0 of Metabolic Maximizers? If you tightened up your eating plan and didn’t miss a workout, you should have seen some pretty good progress.
Here are some quick notes about this month’s training program. Please do not skip or cut short the warm ups. It will take you 10 minutes or less, you’ll break a sweat, and will hit your first set running with your muscles primed and ready to go.
This month we’re still combining exercises but instead of alternating one rep of each exercise until the set is complete, perform a full set of each exercise before completing the coupled exercise. This is using more of a complex method vs. the combo method last month. Be wary. This is not a beginner program. If you have not done June’s Metabolic Maximizers program, do that one first.
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How to Lose as Much Weight as You want
August 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment
We have gotten a lot of feedback from members saying that they don’t know where to start with all the articles and videos in Premium Content Area. To help with this we are going to be putting together a series of Getting Started articles to help guide you to some of the best content in the Faster Fat Loss Zone Area. This is the first article on getting your action plan and mindset ready.
What many people don’t realize is that they can lose as much weight as they want. The genetic limitations for most people in regards to what their normal body fat should be is far less than most think – meaning if we were going to list in order of importance the things that are holding you back from your ideal weight/body, your genetics would be far down the list.
The most important piece of the puzzle is consistent application of your fat loss plan. This is tougher than is seems as life is full of distractions, we are very good as convincing ourselves that what we are doing isn’t working, and we can easily be swayed to try the newest and greatest technique.
In this article I want to focus on developing a strong mindset and set of goals to keep you following through with your plans day after day so that you get the body you want. There is already a large amount of information here in the Faster Fat Loss Zone about goal setting so we’ll look at some of that as well. Read more
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