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For years, involved customers and watchdog organizations are screaming {that the} U.S. labeling laws are full of loopholes and in would like of significant revision. After years of speak, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says they’re planning to thus something about it. But can it be enough?

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There are various food labeling issues we have a tendency to could complain concerning, but one of the biggest issues (thanks to its direct relationship to the corpulence crisis) is serving sizes.

I’m not simply talking regarding supersizing. What’s worse is that the actual calories are being disguised with serving size sleight of hand.

Let me demonstrate you some examples:

Tostitos touch of lime. Calories per serving: 150. Not too dangerous for tortilla chips, eh? Not therefore fast. Check that serving size: 1 ounce. That’s a whopping half-dozen chips. There are ten servings re container. That’s 1500 calories within the bag.

Most guys might knock off 0.5 that bag for a cool 750 calories. Ok, suppose you’ve got some control and you merely eat a third of the bag (20 chips). You continue to get 500 calories. But who stops at 6 chips?

Supplement Water. While I may rant regarding how sugar water is being marketed as health food, I’ll stick with the serving dimension sleight for now.

The sticky tag says there are 50 calories regarding serving. Wow, only fifty calories! Plus they add all those vitamins. Should be smart for you and good for dieters, right? Think again. Observe the serving size and servings per container: eight oz re serving and 2.5 servings per container.

Excuse me, but is there ANY reason for making it 2.five servings other than to disguise the actual calorie content?

When you see that the entire bottle is twenty ounces, you realize that it contains 125 calories, not 50. Although 20 ounces may be a giant bottle, I don’t recognize several guys who wouldn’t chug that whole thing.

Sobe Lifewater? Same trick in their twenty ouncesbottles.

Healthy Choice soup, country vegetable. They make these in convenient very little microwavable containers with a plastic lid. Simply heat and eat.

It says 90 calories and 480 mg of sodium re serving. Wow, but a hundred calories. Wait a second though. Flip the container around and you see the serving size is 1 cup and so the servings re container says “concerning 2.”

Huh? It looks pretty obvious to me that this microwave-prepared container was designed for 1 person to eat in one sitting, thus why not just put one hundred eighty calories per container on the label (and 960 mg of sodium). I guess ninety calories and 480 mg sodium sounds… well… like a healthier choice!

Ben and Jerrys chocolate fudge brownie ice cream.

This infamously delicious ice cream with its own facebook fan page has 270 calories regarding serving.

We generally tend to all recognize ice cream is loaded with calories and ought to only be an occasional treat, but 270 calories regarding serving, that’s not too terrible is it?

Look a little closer at the ticket. The serving size is ½ a cup. Who eats a 0.5 a cup of ice cream? After all, who hasn’t polished off an entire pint by themselves? (the “comment confessional” is below if you’d prefer to answer that)

According to Ben and Jerry, there are four servings in that one pint container. 270 calories times 4 servings = 1080 calories! That’s concerning [*fr1] a days worth of calories for an average female.

I might last and on – crackers, chocolate chip cookies, muffins, pasta, boxed cereals (who eats ¾ cup of cereal), etc. But I suppose you get the point.

What’s the solution to the current mess? News reports within the last week say {that the} FDA could be cracking down. Count me among those that are pleased to listen to this news. One of their concepts is to post nutritional information, together with the calories, on the FRONT of the food labels.

The problem is, this move by itself could really create matters worse. Suppose Tostitos started posting “150 calories re serving” right on the front of the bag. Most people would assume the chips were low in calories. Putting calorie information on the front of the ticket would help only if it clearly stated the quantity of calories in the entire package or in a very traditional human-sized serving!

Ah, but the FDA says they’re on top of that too. They also need to standardize or re-outline serving sizes. Sounds nice, but there are critics who say that customers would take it as approval to eat larger servings thus the strategy would backfire.

Suppose for example, the governing bodythe govt. decides that no one eats ½ a cup of Ben and Jerry’s so they make the new serving dimension one cup, or [*fr1] the pint-sized container. Now by law the sticker says 540 calories regarding serving instead of 270. Is that prefer obtaining official permission to eat twice as much?

I’m not against the FDA’s latest initiative, but what we really want is a few honesty in labeling.

Food makers should not be allowed to govern serving sizes in an exceedingly method that may trick you into thinking there are fewer calories than there really are in a very quantity that you’re certain to eat.

It’d be nice to have calories for the entire package listed on the ticket at a glance. A whole new rating scale for caloric density would be cool too, if it could be simply interpreted. It might even be nice to have serving sizes chosen for quantities that are presumably to be commonly eaten. But standardization of serving sizes for all varieties of foods is difficult.

My friends from Europe tell me that food labels over there are listed in 100g parts, creating comparisons easy. But when you assume about how way every individual’s day by day calorie needs can vary (easily 3-fold or more once you run the gamut from totally sedentary to elite athlete, not to say male and female differences), standardization that applies to everyone could not be possible.

I suppose the recent laws such as requiring calories on restaurant menus are a positive move that will influence some people’s behavior. But no tag changes by themselves will solve the obesity crisis. A real answer is going to possess to incorporate personal responsibility, nutrition education, self-discipline, hard work and lifestyle change.

Changes within the labeling laws won’t influence everybody as the folks presumably to care regarding what labels say are people who have already made a commitment to vary their lifestyles (and that they’re least certain to eat processed and packaged foods – that have labels – in the primary place). Really, for those who care, all the data you would like is already on the labels, you only have to do a very little math and watch out for sneaky label tricks.

There’s one true solution to this portion distortion and ticket lies downside: Become CALORIE AWARE. After all that includes educated sticker reading, but it goes way further. In my Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle system, here is how I outline “calorie counting:”

1. Get a sensible calorie counter book, chart or electronic device/software and find to understand the calorie counts of all the staple foods you eat on a daily basis. Look up the calorie values for foods you eat occasionally.

2. Necessarily have a day by day meal plan – on paper – with calories printed for each food, every meal and that the day. Use that menu as a day by day goal and target.

3. Educate yourself concerning average caloric needs for men and women and learn how to estimate your own calorie desires as closely as you’ll be ready to primarily based on your activity, weight, body composition, height, gender and age.

4. Get a smart kitchen food scale and use it.

Keep counting calories and doing nutrition by the figures until you are unconsciously competent and eating the proper quantities to simply maintain your ideal weight becomes second nature.

Clearly, saying that calories are all there’s to nutrition is like saying that putting is all there’s to golf. Calorie quality and amount are each important. But ,, it’s a mistake to ignore the calorie amount aspect of the game. Serving sizes matter and even healthy foods get stored as fat if you eat too much..

You’ll play “blindfolded archery” by guessing your calories and food parts if you want to. Hey, you may get lucky and guess right. Personally, I wouldn’t recommend depending on luck – or the governmentthe govt. – for something as important as your body and your health. I would advocate the non-public responsibility, nutrition education, self-discipline, hard work and lifestyle amendment…

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Hi, it’s Paul here, after last nights teaser post, i thought you might like a bit more meat, read on….

How To Gain Muscle And Lose Fat At The Same Time

“How can I gain muscle and lose fat at the same time?” That’s right up there with “How do I get six pack abs” as one of the most frequently asked fitness questions of all time. The problem is, when you ask it, you get all kinds of conflicting answers – even from experts who are supposed to know these things. So what’s the deal? Is it really possible to lose fat and build muscle simultaneously?

Short answer: Yes, you can gain muscle and lose fat at the “same time.”

Long answer: It’s difficult and it’s complicated. Allow me to explain….

First we have the issue of whether you really lose fat and gain muscle at the “same time.”

Well, yes, if your definition of the “same time” is say, a month or 12 weeks. But in that case, you’re probably not gaining muscle at the “same time” literally speaking, as in, right now this very moment you are reading this, or 7 days a week, 24 hours a day for months in a row.

The best explanation for what’s really happening is that you alternate between periods of caloric surplus (anabolism) and caloric deficit (catabolism) and the net result is a gain in muscle and a loss in body fat.

You see, if you stay in a calorie surplus, it’s the body’s natural tendency for body fat and lean body mass to go up together. And if you stay in a calorie deficit, it’s your body’s natural tendency for body fat and lean body mass to go down together.

There may be exceptions, but the general rule is that it is very difficult to gain muscle and lose fat at the same time – the mechanisms are mostly antagonistic to one another. When it does happen, it’s almost always the result of “unusual conditions” – I call them X factors.

The 4 X-Factors

The first X-factor is “training age” . Ever hear of “newbie gains?” The less trained your body is and the further you are from your genetic potential, the easier it is to gain muscle. The reverse is also true – an advanced bodybuilder with 20 years experience would be thrilled just to gain a few pounds of solid dry muscle in a year!

The second x factor is muscle memory. It’s easier to regain muscle you’ve lost than it is to gain new muscle in the first place (ergo, the fat out of shape semi retired bodybuilder who starts training again and blows up and gets ripped “overnight”).

The third X factor is genetics (or somatotype). Ever heard of the “genetic freak?” That’s the dude who sprouts muscle like weeds even when he’s on the “50-50 diet” (50% McDonald’s and 50% pizza)… and he never gets fat. (That dude chose the right parents!)

The fourth X factor is drugs. It would stun (or sadden) you if you knew how many people take performance and physique-enhancing drugs. I’m not just talking about pro bodybuilders, I’m talking about “Joe six pack” in the gym – not to mention those fitness models you idolize in the magazines. How did they get large muscle gains with concurrent fat loss? Chemicals.

I’m not a gambling man, but I’ll place a wager on this any day: I’ll bet that in 99% of the cases of large muscle gains with concurrent large fat losses, one or more of these x factors were present.

That’s not all! There are actually 5 more X factors related to your body composition and diet status (the X2 factors). But I’ll have to talk about those later.

So you’re not a beginner, you don’t take roids, you’re not a genetic freak and you have no muscle memory to take advantage of. Are you S.O.L? Well, I do want you to be realistic about your goals, but…

There IS a way for the average person to gain muscle and lose fat at the same time.

The Secret: You have to change your “temporal perspective!”

Traditionally nutritionists and fitness pros have only looked at calorie balance in terms of 24 hour periods. At midnight, you could tally up the calories like a shopkeeper closing out his register, and if the balance were positive, you’d say you were in a surplus for the day. If the balance were negative, you’d say you were in a deficit for the day.

But it’s entirely possible that you might pass through periods of “within-day” surplus where you were in a highly anabolic state (for example, you eat the biggest, highest carb meal of the day after your workout), and you were in a deficit the rest of the day.

If you did intense weight training, and you timed your nutrient intake appropriately, Isn’t it possible that you could gain a small amount of muscle during those anabolic hours, while losing fat the rest of the day? Granted it might only be grams or ounces – but what if you kept that up for a week? A month? Three months?

As you pan out and look at the bigger picture, what if most days of the week you were in a deficit for the entire day, and on some days you were in a surplus? If so, then isn’t it possible that over the course of the week, you’d have a small net gain of muscle and loss of body fat a a result of the caloric fluctuation?

These within-day and within-week phases are called microcycles and mesocycles. If you also had a primary goal with a longer term focus of several months, say 12 weeks or 16 weeks, that would be a macrocycle.

What I’ve just described is nutritional periodization. Some people call it cyclical dieting. it’s where you manipulate your calories (primarily by fluctuating carbohydrate intake, hence “carb cycling”) in order to intentionally zig zag your way through periods of surplus and deficit and create specific hormonal responses.

The end result: muscle gain and fat loss during the same time period!

I know that someone out there is having a hissy fit because I’ve only talked about calories: deficits and surpluses. Rightfully so. Calories matter but there’s more to it than calories – most importantly, hormones and “nutrient partitioning.”

If you’re in a calorie deficit you are going to pull energy from your body.The question is: From WHERE? If your hormones are out of whack and you’re eating crap, you could lose more muscle than fat in a deficit and gain almost pure fat, not muscle, in a surplus!

But WHAT IF you could manipulate within day energy balance, use nutritional periodization AND control your hormones with food and lifestyle strategies?

Make no mistake – concurrent muscle gain and fat loss is a difficult goal to achieve. The good news: difficult does not mean impossible. Or as George Santayana said, “The difficult is that which can be done immediately, the impossible, that which takes a little longer.”

The Holy Grail Body Transformation Program: How to Gain Muscle and Lose Fat at The Same Time

You can learn more about gaining muscle and losing fat at the same time in Tom Venuto’s new e-book called, “The Holy Grail Body Transformation System.”

You’ll learn all about nutritional periodization, cyclical dieting, hormonal manipulation, within day energy balance, nutrient partitioning, AND the all the X factors, including the 5 “X2-Factors” – which are the keys to gaining muscle and losing fat at the same time.

You’ll also get Tom’s new “TNB” training system, as seen in Men’s Fitness magazine (the complete, expanded version that Men’s Fitness didn’t have room to print).

At the moment, The Holy Grail ebook is not for sale separately and there are only two ways you can get it.

From now until Midnight (PST), March 5th, 2010, you can get a copy of the Holy Grail Body Transformation program ebook for FREE when you purchase the Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle e-book from this web page:
www.BurnTheFat.com

The other way you can a a copy is by joining the Burn the Fat Inner Circle at:
www.BurnTheFat.com/innercircle

After March 5th, 2010 at midnight PST The Holy Grail will be taken off the market for a period of time while Tom is collecting case studies and getting feedback from users, to include in the final edition – which WILL be released for sale separately later this year.

Visit the Burn The Fat website now and jump on this deal while you still can.

Ok guys this is your last chance if you seriously want to invest in your body, buy BFFM now and get The Holy Grail free while you can, offeer ends tonight!

Paul x

Wow – I’ve got a real powerful post today, I hope you like it. What are your thoughts on the whole ‘You can’t burn fat AND build muscle at the same time….’ debate? Read on and don’t be surprised if you have a change of view….

This past January the guys at over at the Burn the Fat websites completed their first ever body transformation challenge contest. But their contest was NOTHING like the biggest loser.

In fact, Josh Ketter, the overall men’s winner, and Ryan Cochrane, one of the finalists, only lost a pound.

Now, you must be thinking, “what the heck kind of weird body transformation contest were they running where the winner and the finalists only drop a pound?”

Well, it would seem weird if you thought that success at body transformation meant dropping weight on the scale, but did you ever stop to think about the difference
between fat weight and muscle weight?

Think about it – if those contestants on the biggest loser gain muscle – they get penalized, right? Penalize someone for gaining muscle?

Shouldn’t contestants be REWARDED for gaining muscle as well as burning fat?

That’s the problem with weight loss contests today and with a lot of people in the industry in general – they are obsessed with scale weight but they don’t pay any attention to body composition (the fat-to-lean muscle ratio).

Of course, some of the contestants in that contest did drop a lot of fat – 15, 20, even 25 lbs in only 50 days. But the person who dropped the most pounds was NOT necessarily voted as the winner.

That explains how the judging was done – some of the winners were rewarded because they made tremendous improvements in their body composition, even though their scale weight didn’t change that much.

Josh lost 8 pounds of fat and gained 7 pounds of muscle in just 50 days.  He only lost a pound on the scale because the muscle weight replaced the fat weight.

Ryan Cochrane lost 8 pounds of fat while gaining 7.7 lbs of muscle in 50 days. His weight hardly changed.

Sarah kensington actually GAINED a pound, from 119 to 120 but her body fat decreased from 19% to a ripped 12.6%. Thats a 7.9 pound GAIN in lean body mass and a 7 pound loss of body fat – remarkable for a MAN, almost unheard of for
a woman!

When you look at their before and after pictures, you can see that even though their weight changed by less than a pound, they TOTALLY TRANSFORMED THEIR BODIES!

How?

They gained muscle and lost fat at the same time!

Maybe you’re thinking, “wait a minute, I thought it was impossible to gain muscle and lose fat at the same time? Don’t you need a calorie deficit to burn fat and
a calorie surplus to build muscle?”

Well, yes and no. Calories do matter, but according to fat loss expert Tom Venuto, the guy who sponsored the recent body composition fitness contest, it’s much
more complicated than that because of things like within-day energy balance, hormonal fluctuations and “energy partitioning.”

It was these unusual contest results that prompted Tom to dig into the scientific research on concurrent muscle gain and fat loss and create a new program that he calls:

“THE HOLY GRAIL BODY TRANSFORMATION SYSTEM:
How to gain muscle and lose fat at the same time”

This is not an easy goal to achieve – So I’m sorry, but I have no miracle for you. If you’re looking for magic bullets, go elsewhere. This is a serious and very
strategic program.

Concurrent muscle gain and fat loss is the most difficult goal to achieve.

That’s why people call it the “holy grail”; because it’s so elusive.

BUT MAKE NO MISTAKE: IT IS POSSIBLE.

I’m sure you’ve heard this subject debated ad nauseum on discussion forums. Those debates probably left you confused and not sure what to believe either.

This new ebook sets the record straight in such a way that you could say it’s the LAST WORD on gaining muscle and burning fat at the same time; it’s impressively referenced with peer-reviewed research and frankly, it just makes sense.

Tom Venuto’s previous best selling ebook, Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle (BFFM) has become known to many as a “fat loss bible”

Check out the ‘Fat Loss Bible’ here…

But BFFM is designed specifically for fat loss, what if you want to lose fat AND gain muscle?

That’s exactly why this new program was created.

It’s the first course of it’s kind that builds on the techniques of BFFM and teaches a system for gaining muscle and burning fat simultaneously, and explains the process scientifically.

If you’re skeptical, I don’t blame you. Even I was skeptical when I heard about it.

But when you see BOTH; real-world case studies AND the scientific proof, it makes you want to stop and take a look.

Right now the 1st edition of Tom’s new HOLY GRAIL body transformation ebook is available for just the next 2 days in limited release.

It’s actually not even for sale separately yet.

What Tom decided to do was offer the holy grail ebook as bonus with the purchase of his Burn The Fat Feed The Muscle ebook.

The Holy Grail ebook is available only for the next 2 days at:

Burn The Fat Feed The Muscle

(offer expires on Friday march 5th, 2010)

On March 6th, he’s going to take the holy grail course off the market for a while, to correspond with some of his new customers and collect feedback and case studies to incorporate in the 2nd edition.

Then the grail ebook will be officially re-released later this year at the regular retail price.

So, this is a great opportunity to pick up Tom’s fat loss bible AND get the holy grail ebook for free at the same time.

If you’d like to be in this first wave of people to try this new combined muscle-building and fatburning system, this is the ONLY wayto order at the moment;

Purchase a copy of Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle ebook, and the HOLY GRAIL body transformation ebook comes along with BFFM for free.

Now what do you think, leave a comment and let me know!

All the best, Paul x My Health And Fitness Today

PS. You may have already heard of Tom’s Burn the Fat, Feed the
Muscle book before, so if you already have it, the other way you
can get his new Holy Grail program is by joining the Burn the Fat
Inner Circle – all members there are also getting access to it
this week up until Friday the 5th. More info on Tom’s inner circle at:

http://myhealthandfitnesstoday.com/inner-circle