Q: I’ve got about 20 pounds of fat to get rid of before I can even think about getting lean and I figured the best way to go would be go on a diet consisting of three protein shakes a day with low fat milk. I’m doing about 40 minutes of cardio three times a week and weights on the other days. Would you recommend this ‘shake diet’ for me? A: Well, you’re on the right track with the cardio and weights. But, lets rethink this shake diet thing. Your body was made to digest and absorb food – that is the munchy stuff that you have to chew. Protein drinks were never designed to replace that food, merely to supplement it. For one thing the very act of eating is, in itself, thermic – it burns calories. Protein foods ...

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Nutrition is taken as the biggest part of body building, but it is really just a piece of the ice berg bearing in mind that there are other essentials in body building including exercise and rest to complete the whole cycle. There are various categories of people who engage in body building and they are all varied in their characteristics. Vegetarians also engage in body building and they also have to choose their diets well enough to suit the body’s nutrition requirements. It is simply untrue for those people who think that a vegetarian cannot be successful in the bodybuilding process as a result of their choice of meals. Planning is what is required to ensure that there is optimal nutritional intake for the vegetarian engaging in body building; with a variety of available protein sources the main thing to consider is ...

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