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Endurance Athletes and Increased Mitochondrial Oxygen Processing
Aerobic athletes produce physical work relatively slowly over long periods of time through the hydrolysis of ATP The demand for the re-synthesis of ATP to continue muscular work during prolonged exercise is met by the oxidation of fuel (carbohydrates, fats, … Continue reading
6 Tips to Kill your Crave – Tips to Defeat those Diet-Busting Urges
No, don’t fret if you feel like giving up on that diet plan. All you need to do is need focus on the task at hand, and think of the road ahead. And while you’re trying to do that, here’s … Continue reading
The Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (OSHEA)
Even more influential with regard to dietary supplements, the DSHEA, legally known as Public Law 103-417, was signed by President Clinton on October 25, 1994 in response to concerned nutritional supplement consumers and manufacturers who needed reassurance that safe dietary … Continue reading
Physical Activity of Weight Loss
According to the ACSM, the optimal approach to weight loss combines mild caloric restriction with regular physical activity. Together these two strategies should provide a caloric deficit not to exceed 500 to 1000 calories per day. The physical activity component … Continue reading
Very-Low Calorie Diets
Diets very low in calories (800 calories per day or fewer), including those that have been promoted as having a “protein-sparing effect” (conserving lean tissue), have often been associated with serious medical complications, including cardiac dysrhythmias (irregular heart rate that … Continue reading
Strategies for Weight Maintenance or Weight Loss
To maintain weight, caloric intake must be balanced by caloric expenditure. To lose weight an individual has to achieve a caloric deficit in which the number of calories burned exceeds the number of calories consumed. This is the basic principle … Continue reading
Dietary Strategies that May Help Prevent Overtraining
A number of the physiological and psychological symptoms and signs of overreaching/overstraining have been suggested to be partly due to a chronic energy deficit, an inadequate availability of specific nutrients, or both. This may affect the body’s response to intensified … Continue reading
Role of Nutrition in Central Fatigue and Immune Function
During prolonged exercise, athletes become fatigued. For many years, exercise scientists believed that fatigue was simply related to peripheral muscle glycogen depletion and perhaps the hypoglycemia which may occur during prolonged exercise. However, more recent studies indicated that athletes fatigue … Continue reading
Working out in Gym with Contact Lenses
Working out in the gym wearing glasses can be quite tricky. You might accidentally drop them and crush them under the weight of a barbell, they may obstruct some movements when you are working on your upper body, and they … Continue reading
Important Steps for Weight Loss
As we all know, losing weight is not all that easy. It would be great if all you had to do in order to lose weight would be to eat less for a while and exercise more. If this were … Continue reading