09th November 2009
With all the processed foods inundating our supermarkets, it’s almost impossible to get all your nutritional requirements from food alone. Even if you eat nothing but whole foods, you would have to eat a large amount of food to meet all your nutritiona...
09th November 2009
We all know in order to build muscle you need to eat plenty of calories and especially protein. The rule of thumb for protein is to consume 1 gram of protein per pound of body weight for muscle building. With any good muscle building plan, you need to s...
09th November 2009
Essential Fatty Acids are important for overall health as well as to gain muscle. There are 2 families of EFA’s, Omega 3 and Omega 6. EFA’s are fats that cannot be produced by the body and therefore must be obtained through our diet.
Omega 3 ...
09th November 2009
Creatine has been known to build muscle since the early 1900’s but, creatine was first introduced to professional athletes during the 1992 Olympics. Many English athletes admitted after the Olympics to training with creatine, which angered other athle...
30th September 2009
Multi vitamins are so common these days you wouldn’t even think of them as a supplement. A multi vitamin is defined in the dictionary as “a preparation intended to supplement a human diet with vitamins, minerals and other nutritional elements.” The...
30th September 2009
B vitamins were once thought of as a single vitamin called Vitamin B. After much research, we discovered there are actually 8 distinct vitamins. Further research has also concluded that B vitamins are water soluble, which means that they are easily excr...
30th September 2009
Acai berry is an inch long black-purple fruit that looks similar to a grape, but is a relative of the blueberry and cranberry. The Acai berry comes from the Acai palm tree, which is native to Central and South America. For hundreds of years the Acai ber...
