Check Out My Alkaline Diet Video on YouTube

The secret to the alkaline diet is to eat more nutritious alkalizing foods. Fortunately, alkaline diet food doesn’t have to be dull. As a matter of fact, alkaline-producing whole foods come in numerous of textures, flavors, and colors, adding a pleasing variety to your meals.

1. Make Fruit Your Convenience Food

When you’re always on the go, it’s tempting to grab a candy bar and a soda from a convenience store. But these kinds of processed food are acid-producing, fattening, and just plain bad for you. Alkaline-forming fruits are a nourishing alternative. An apple, an orange, or a bunch of grapes is convenient enough to eat after a jog or on your break at work.

2. Go Easy on Meat

Some people have steak, roast beef, or grilled chicken as the main course. Sometimes the only “vegetable” around is a sprig of parsley. For a healthier and more alkalizing meal, have a vegetable-based salad, saute, or soup, with a few ounces of lean meat, beans, tempeh, or seeds to make sure you get your protein.

3. Have Vegetables Every Day

Whether you enjoy them steamed, stir-fried, or raw, vegetables are the single most important food group for weight loss and optimal internal pH. Many people rarely think beyond lettuce and sweet corn, but they’re losing out on tons of health benefits. For instance, yellow, orange, and red vegetables can make sure that you get plenty of beta-carotine. Meanwhile, dark leafy green vegetables like chard, collard greens, and spinach are often a great source of vitamin K.

4. Dip Wisely

For a healthy alkaline diet snack, cut raw vegetables into strips and dip them in hummus, bean dip, salad dressing, or salsa. But avoid high-fat (and acid-forming) cream- and cheese-based dips.

5. Don’t Overdo It on Alcohol

Virtually all alcoholic beverages make your body more acidic. Even moderate alcohol consumption can have other damaging effects on your health, as well. For example, studies indicate that alcohol increases the risk of esophageal and laryngeal cancer, and may also increase the risk of breast cancer by as much as 60 percent.

 

Did you know that body fat is actually believed to be an organ? In fact a vital organ, to be precise, just like the liver, kidney, skin, or even the heart! Complete with blood vessels, nerves, and of course, fat cells, body fat is a vital organ that produces proteins, substances and hormones that effect the bodies metabolism, energy balance and fat storage. The purpose of body fat organs differ according to where they are located in the body. Lower body fat organs are women’s fat body organs. Fat organs located in the upper body are not exclusive to either sex. Each body fat organ has specialpurposes, which means they all absorb and release specific fatty acids, as well as, respond to and secrete specific hormones according to their site in the body.

For instance, the body fat organ on women’s hips and thighs respond to female hormones in normal preparation for pregnancy. The secretion of the female hormone, progesterone, increases by a factor of one thousand directly after ovulation during menstruation. It is no illusion that women are gaining small amounts of weight besides being bloated at that time! Their body is readying for pregnancy. And the expanding fat organ in the hips and thighs will grow much more if and when they actually do become pregnant. a [sizeable calories must be kept in reserve to deliversustenance to a infant.

Owing to this process, women on average put on about 30 to 40 pounds throughout pregnancy. Usually, if there is an absence of a weight maintenance diet program, and/or exercise, or if the mother chooses not to breast feed and doesn’t watch what she eats, the pregnancy weight will still be there six months after delivery. This is the reason the leading reason accounting for female obesity is weight gain after pregnancy.

Sadly, lower body fat is the most difficult to lose by means of diet. For this reason countless women have literally starved themselves and even lost too much weight in the face or upper body to look healthy. That being the case it is important to be mindful of your appropriate weight and shape if you have more lower body fat than upper. The reality is, there is nothing wrong with the lower body of fat, it’s just that society has branded it unapplealing over the past four decades. Prior to four decades ago, women with lower body fat were considered appealing and were popular. It has been noted that society needs more tolerance in this area.

The fat organ around the intestines in the middle of the body also has unique purposes, responding to specific hormones and releasing specific substances into the bloodstream. Both male and females can gain abdominal fat. Dieting is most successful at shrinking the fat organ around the midsection. Inasmuch as it is easier to slim down here, it is frequently the first place people with both upper and lower body fat lose weight when they are dieting.

While there are women who accumulate both upper and lower body fat, some women are more likely to have only upper body fat and never accumulate much lower body fat. These women tend to have a higher measure of male hormone levels. The women with only upper fat are three times more likely to develop breast cancer, and nine times more likely to become diabetic.

Abdominal fat is essentially storing a little fat for coping with brief starvation periods. Because this has directly to do with nourishment, and humans are more vulnerable to illness when malnourished, it makes sense that abdominal fat secretes substances that fight and protect against infections. It also reacts to stress. When the body feels stress, emotional or otherwise, the adrenal glands are over stimulated and produce too much of a stress hormone, and the fat gland around the midsection expands middle of the body. This is related to a disease called Cushing’s syndrome.

Finally, it’s key to be conscious of the fact that these body fat organs, like vital organs, have unique purposes responding to and secreting specific substances and hormones in various parts of the body. This vital organ, the fat organ, is fundamentally involved with sustenance and nourishment providing for periods of starvation. And, in terms of nutrition, vital fat organs have a lot to do with transmitting to the brain what state of nourishment the body is in. So, it becomes of great import to keep these fat organs as optimally nourished as possible. Ignored, an excess of any stimulus will cause a fat organ to increase in growth, and do just what it’s named to do. Reserve calories in case of starvation, unfortunately this means expanding fat cells! one should consider that fat organs become storage places for random toxins for the purpose of keeping them as far away from the internal organs as possible. It is therefore greatly advised that a diet program of optimal nutrition be followed as much as possible. With so many varied responses and secretions from the various fat cells involved, it makes great sense to nourish the body by feeding all cell correctly. Therefore a diet program following the principle of cellular nutrition is ideal. It will provide the proper nourishment for all fat cells involved. Even further, it will supply the nutriments needed to appease hunger and not send a starvation mode signal to the brain, and it will help regulate calorie intake so as to aid in preventing the excessive storage of fat!

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

[ Note: This article was written by my friend Jon Benson the author of the only diet and nutrition plan i will ever use or promote. I have his permission to share it with you. ]

What do these six things have in common?

– McDonalds
– Renée Zellweger
– Epileptic children
– Yours truly
– Most bodybuilding and fitness competitors
– Kiefer Sutherland

Give up?

All the above employ the strategies of the low-carb dietplan.

Recently researchers have found that low-carb nutrition plan reduced the number of seizures in epileptic children.

Most of the world’s leanest physiques get that way on a regimen, limited or not, of low-carbs and higher protein.

Even McDonalds is getting into the act.

Even Renée Zellweger.

Even Kiefer Sutherland.

Even me.

Kinda.

Read on and I’ll explain what I mean…

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Why Low-Carb Works

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When McDonalds starts counting carb grams in their food, you know someone is either jumping on a trend or finally seeing the light.

In this case, both — but it is a good thing. Low-carb dietplans. They work.

For the masses, they work because they are the easiest nutrition plan to follow when you’re busy.

McDonalds and stars like Kiefer Sutherland figured this out. The busy on-the-go guy or gal doesn’t want to make the time to prepare six meals per day and carry them around in Tupperware.

When choosing my own lifestyle nutrition plan, time and convenience played a major role. I looked at role models who were very busy, formerly obese, and very lean.

Most of them rely in some form or fashion on a low-carb strategy.

Low-carb also works, much to the hem and haw of traditional doctors and nutritionists, due to the way the body processes fuel.

For those of us fortunate enough to grow up on whole grains and very low-sugar mealplans, a moderate to higher-carb nutrition plan may work just fine.

But most of us grew up eating junk.

Processed foods, fast foods, and downright junk was the cornerstone of our dietplans. That puts your body on the “carb defense.”

After years of abuse the body becomes resistant to carbohydrates. The insulin they produce can cause all sorts of health issues, fat-burning problems, and more.

When carbs are removed, even healthy carbs like whole grains, the body has time to re-adjust.

In some cases, you can go back to a moderate-carb plan with whole grains and fruits after a period of time.

In others, you are a “low-carber” for life.

Guess which one I am?

Finally, low-carb works because you tend to eat less. Fat is very satiating, and most low-carb plans are fairly high in dietaryfat.

So, in recap:

— Easy and convenient;
— Metabolically important for carb recovery;
— Lower in total food volume (eat less)

Do not make light of that first point. Any plan that is not simple is one very few people will stick to. Making your plan simple and tasty is key, even if that plan is not “perfect” by nutritional standards.

Now, by far, the best low-carb dietplan in the world (yes, I’m bias for good reason!) is this:

click.here ——> My Favorite Foods Diet Presentation

EODD works so well because your carbs are low for “most” of the time. Not “all” of the time. And the times when your carbs are not low you can enjoy your favorite foods.

Personally I enjoy pizza and burgers on my non-low-carb days. You can enjoy whatever you want if you just keep it reasonable.

You see, there’s no need to diet-perfect.

Progress always trumps perfection.

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Why Low-Carb Fails

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There are two primary reasons for the failure of the low-carb nutrition plans: boredom and media bashing.

One causes irritability. The other, doubt. Unless you’re certain that your plan will work, you will eventually go off of it.

This is true of any plan, no matter how ideal it is. Certainty rules.

That’s why I believe in having a flexible, tasty plan like EODD.

Then boredom is easily solved.

I share my own unique ideas about “cycling” carbs and fats in the presentation here:

click.here ——> My Favorite Foods Diet Presentation

Using my cycle strategy you will rarely if ever become bored. And your body will burn more bodyfat too. It’s just a cheap metabolic trick…but boy, it works.

The second reason is media and medical bias. One study after another has proven that low-carb plans, even the Atkins plan, works and is safe to use for most people.

Check with your doctor first, of course.

I’ve seen researchers get down-right angry when the results come back. In one study, carried out for a full year, the low-carb plan out-performed the so-called “healthy” Dean Ornish plan.

Lower blood fats, more weightloss, and more energy were the results.

My preference always comes back to low-carb nutrition. I just cycle it in a way that allows me to get plenty of veggies, some grains, and ample fiber.

Even a slice of cheesecake here and there… : )

Hey…I said “low-carb”, not “low-life!”

Yours In Fitness,

J O N   B E N S O N

P.S. One of these days the mainstream medical community will wake up to the fact that 90% of the population will never eat 15 servings of veggies per day.

While this may be “optimal”, it’s not at all practical. I’d rather give you down-to- earth practical nutrition advice that you CAN and WILL follow — and enjoy.

Makes sense, doesn’t it?

click.here ——>  My Favorite Foods Diet Presentation

Welcome once again to My Health And Fitness Today.

Let me be one of the first to CONGRATULATE you. Every journey starts with that primary step so I give you a round of applause for taking your 1^st step in what I know can be a fun and life shifting quest towards health and happiness. My purpose is to clear the smoke and give you a truthful outlook on:

- dieting nutrition
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Health and wellness is swiftly rising to the top of most individuals priority list. Men, women, and children are all being affected by the startling growth rate of obesity and obesity related problems.

From a different standpoint, there are also many individuals out there that would love nothing more than to put on some weight and/or muscle.

What we are seeing because of this is an ever growing explosion of ‘vogue’ diets, ‘celebrity’ weight loss curriculums and extreme, be like Arnold, muscle building programs.

The trail leading to health and wellness and better fitness and nutrition has never seen this much overcrowding and these many obstacles. My aim is give you a guiding light that will aid you traverse this extensive ocean of information and help you arrive safely to your personal objective. It is very important for you to understand that every persons objective is going to be person specific and exclusive just as each goal is. That is the reason that there is not one supreme universal fat loss diet that is functional for everyone and not one universal gym regiment that will build muscle on everyone.

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When a person’s intention is to bulk up or build muscle mass, the method they take towards their nutritional regime and training is habitually greatly dissimilar from the approach that someone who is looking to slim up or drop weight needs to take.

If you were to do a simple search today on the internet for anything interrelated to diets, weight loss or muscle creation, you could almost certainly spend 8 hours a day for the next 9 years and still not digest all the results your search would create. Although it may seem like a good idea to have all that data, bear in mind that because the internet is in essence free for any person to use, you will certainly come across an inconceivable amount of trash and websites built by people that have entirely no idea what they are talking about or are soley encouraged by reasons other than wanting to assist people.

Plenty of the information out there is not only incorrect, I have also stumbled upon a heft amount of information which I feel can essentially be harmful or detrimental to enhanced health and wellness. Hence, what alternatives are you left with? I have taken my fervor for fitness and nourishment and taken the time to investigate hundreds of the best guides and programs out there so that you do not need to. Not only will I provide you with up-to-date information and research on the most relevant health and fitness topics these days, you will also be taught the very best in the world of diets, weight loss and building muscle.

In conjunction with educating you as much as possible, I hope that my approach to writing and my wit will cause you to grin and giggle as you gain knowledge. Yes, this is an incredibly serious topic which I keep close to my heart but it is key to have fun at the same time as you learn and I am a stout believer that smiling and laughter does wonderful things for your body and for your mind.

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One of the first thoughts that turns up in a person’s mind when they want to burn some fat or lose some weight is the word diet; a word I’m not exceedingly fond of. I dislike this word because along with it, people have this defined notion that it is something with a rigid start date and a firm termination date. I hate to be the one that ruins the party but if you truthfully want to attain lifelong and sustainable health and fitness success, you need to start assessing the lifestyle changes you are going to put into practice for the long haul.

Ponder this for a short second; are you going to cease going to the gym because the same routine you have memorized is getting old and dreary for you or do you think it makes more sense to be taught the science and technicalities behind what you are doing so that not only can you without difficulty implement variety into your routine, you can also keep it going long-term? And once you are capable of fitting into that special dress or slip comfortably into those jeans, are you going to deem your ‘fat loss program’ a victory only to return to the dreadful habits that got you to the point where all your preferred clothing were a couple of sizes too small or will you at least become skilled in the nuts and bolts behind nutrition so that you get into the tradition of putting the correct ‘fuel’ into your body at the right time?

Even though it is very critical to possess and achieve short terms goals, when it relates to your nutrition and fitness, you really should be focusing on the big picture and that is a life time of achievement.

Before this amazing journey is able to begin, you need to allow yourself to turn into a learner and take in as much education as you can and commit to making as many changes as are essential to obtain victory. As this site continues to grow and more and more relevant information is added, I am very certain that you will discover just about everything you need to conquer dieting, fat loss and/or gaining muscle and even though it may appear suitable at this moment to wish you luck, I can assure you that after reading through everything here, you are not going to need any.

This is my way of sharing all the excellent and effective education I have acquired over the years and continue to attain to this day. Lack of education is the wicked little rogue behind so many of the dieting, fat loss and muscle development problems that countless people are facing today and my objective is to have a free resource that any individual, in spite of age, sex or gender, can consulta. I am not looking to just teach; I hope that I am also able to encourage and enthuse.

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