Give Your Workout a Power Boost
Do you start to fatigue towards the end of your workout?
Are you looking for a way to ramp up your strength training and cardio?
When you exercise, especially at high intensities, your body accumulates a large amount of hydrogen ions (H+) causing your muscles pH to drop (become more acidic). As a result, your strength decreases and causes you to fatigue. If you want to give your workout a power boost, try beta-alanine.
Benefits of Beta Alanine Include:
- Increased muscular strength and power output
- Increased muscle mass
- Increased anaerobic endurance
- Increases aerobic endurance
- Delays muscular fatigue
Beta alanine, a non-essential amino accid, can help you finish stronger. Medicine and science in Sports & Exercise reported that for volunteers who took beta alanine put out 5% more power on average during an all-out sprint than those who took a dummy placebo pill. That can be enough to beat your workout buddy.
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Healthy Recipe: Vegetable Konjac Pasta
INGREDIENTS:
- 1 packet konjac pasta
- 1/2 cup chopped onions
- 1 medium chopped tomato
- 1/4 cup chopped bell pepper
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1/4 tsp oregano
- 1/4 tsp basil
- 1/4 tsp thyme
INSTRUCTIONS:
In large bowl, gently mix all ingredients. Refrigerate until cold, allowing mixture to set for a hour before serving to enhance the flavor.
Serving size: 1
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The Low-Down Healthy Truth About Fats
It takes fat to burn fat. And like carbohydrates, not all fats are created equal but they are essential, especially when it comes to weight loss.
Like carbohydrates, there are good fats and bad fats. When it comes to good fats, there are 2 types that fall into this category: monosaturated fats and long-chain omega-3 fats. Monosaturated fats come from olive oil, selected nuts and avocados. Long-chain omega-3 fats come from fish and fish oils. These are the healthy fats that you want to incorporate into your diet, especially if you’re trying to lose weight. These are good fats because they play an indirect role in helping lower the insulin response to carbohydrates. Additionally, they send a hormonal signal to the brain saying “stop eating.” And the fewer calories you eat, the less insulin you make. If you don’t eat fat and replace it with carbohydrates, you are virtually guaranteeing you will become fatter.
But, just like there are good carbs and bad carbs, there are good fats and bad fats. The bad fats need to be restricted from your diet. Bad fats include saturated fats, trans-fats and arachidonic acid. You find these fats in fatty cuts of red meat, high-fat dairy products, artificial fats in virtually all processed foods such as “partially hydrogenated vegetable oil.” These bad fats don’t only lead to excess weight, they also lead to deadly diseases like heart disease.
Eating the right types of fats at the right time in the proper amount helps maintain insulin levels – this is extremely important if you are trying to lose weight. On the other hand, indulging in bad fats can not only help you gain weight but also lead you down the path to deadly diseases like heart disease.
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Healthy Recipe: Italian Konjac Pasta
INGREDIENTS:
- 1 packet of konjac noodles
- 1/2 tsp olive oil
- 1/2 cucumber, diced
- 1/2 bell pepper chopped
- 1 tomato, diced
- 1/2 onion diced
- 9 oz sugar-free tomato sauce
- 4 oz Italian dressing (use spray dressing)
INSTRUCTIONS:
- Drain and rinse konjac pasta with cold water. Then drain and add olive oil. Add remaining ingredients. Add red wine vinegar to taste.
Serving size: 2
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Weight Loss 101: Are You at a Genetic Disadvantage
Life isn’t fair. But you probably already knew that.
And, unfortunately, genetics are no different, especially when it comes to carbohydrates.
If you’re anything like me, just looking at a potato chip seems to make you gain weight. And if you’re not, you could be like my good friend who can eat ten bags of potato chips without gaining an ounce.
Why is it that some of us can eat carbs to our hearts content without gaining weight while others of us gain weight almost at the mere glimpse of a carb?
Insulin. About 75% of us have a relatively strong insulin response to carbohydrate. Meaning that if we eat too many carbohydrates, our bodies react by making too much insulin. It’s our genetic make-up that determines the amount of carbohydrates your body can handle without producing excessive insulin. What happens if your body produces too much insulin? Not only does excess insulin make your blood sugar fall too quickly, thereby resulting in fatigue and hunger for more carbs, it also makes you your body store fat and prohibit the burning of fat. As a result, excess insulin, makes you fat, keeps you fat, induces fatigue and makes you crave more carbohydrates. It’s a vicious cycle.
How can you tell if your sensitive to carbohydrates?
At lunch time, eat a big pasta meal. If you are hungry and ready to take an afternoon siesta three hours later, then you fall into the 75% of the population who are not so genetically lucky.
What’s the best way to lose weight if you’re sensitive to excess insulin?
Eat a healthy diet of lean protein and low glycemic carbohydrates. These are mostly of the colorful, crunchy come-from-the-ground variety like apples, lettuce, cucumbers, grapes, peppers and onions. Keep your insulin in check with a healthy, low-glycemic diet. Not only will you not produce excess insulin but you will also have more energy and possibly lose weight as well.
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Is Green Tea Effective for Weight Loss?
Revered as the almighty fat fighter, green tea has a growing list of health benefits from fighting fat to fighting cancer.
Obesity is a major concern in America with more than half of the American population overweight or obese but research has shown that green tea and green tea extract have been shown to fight obesity and lower LDL “bad cholesterol” – both risk factors for heart disease and diabetes. Scientists have found that green tea may be most effective with cardiovascular disease, dementia, certain types of cancer and weight loss.
A Swiss study has shown that green tea, its catechins and EGCG have all been successful at reducing body weight and body fat.
Penn State University demonstrated that EGCG not only inhibits the body from absorbing fat but also boosting its ability to use fat.
“Taken altogether, the evidence certainly suggests that incorporating at least a few cups of green tea every day will positively affect your health,” says Diane McKay, PhD, a Tufts University scientist who studies antioxidants. “It’s not going to cure anything and it shouldn’t be consumed as a drug, but it can complement the rest of the diet.”
The relation between green tea and weight loss are substantially linked together through the thermogenic properties of the plant. Thermogenesis is your body’s process of speeding up the metabolism, burning calories and breaking down fat via heat.
The EGCG in green tea helps increase the 24 hour energy expenditure of the body. A study on green tea by American and Swiss scientists at the University of Geneva showed an additional increase of 4% in the body’s natural energy expenditure. People given green tea were more likely to use up more fat than those not on green tea.
If you’re looking to boost your weight loss, green tea is an excellent way to achieve greater success with your weight loss efforts.
At Calla Slimspa Medical Weight Loss Center in Winter Park, we not only offer an exceptional weight loss program supervised directly by doctors but we also have an array of weight loss aiding supplements like Optimal Green Tea Capsules. Our green tea extract capsules provide a reliable, concentrated source of specific beneficial, active compounds that occur naturally in the green tea plant. Studies using green tea extract have found it can significantly suppress food intake, body weight gain and fat tissue accumulation which is why we offer it as a supplement to our weight loss diet.
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For more information on how you can lose the weight and adopt a healthier lifestyle, contact Calla Slimspa Medical Weight Loss Center in Orlando today!
We are located in the heart of Winter Park and have helped thousands of overweight individuals in Orlando lose the weight and keep it off. Using FDA approved appetite suppressants and real food, we help you achieve your weight loss goals in a minimal amount of time. But don’t take our word for it. Check out our testimonials to find out what real Calla Slimspa patients had to say about their experience.
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Healthy Recipe: Blackened Tuna Salad
INGREDIENTS:
- 2 tbsp black pepper
- 1/8 tsp dried thyme
- 1 lb fresh tuna steak cut into 4 equal pieces
- 3/4 c Walden Farm Balsamic Vinaigrette
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 3 c chopped romaine lettuce
- 1/4 tsp lemon pepper
INGREDIENTS:
- Mix the black pepper, garlic powder, lemon pepper, thyme and salt together in a small bowl.
- Rub the spice mixture all over the tuna to coat.
- Preheat a medium nonstick skillet over high heat.
- Add the tuna and sear for about 3 minutes each side.
- Mound salad on 4 plates.
- Top each with the seared tuna and drizzle with the vinaigrette.
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