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Nutrition Articles & Tips




 

Ah....yes. One of my favorite topics. No matter what you are trying to do with your body, proper nutrition will get you where you want to go. But how does the average consumer make sense of all the non-sense out there? A new best-seller on the latest fad diet hits the best sellers list every other week as Americans continue to look for the short cuts, starve and deprive themselves of everything they want and inevitably drive themselves nuts and gain most of their weight back in the end.

What the so-called experts are telling you is to stay away from carbs (The Zone), eat tons of protein (The Zone), have absolutely no sugar in your diet (Sugar Busters), eat foods in certain combinations to lose weight (Atkins). What they don't tell you is that the reason all of these work in the short term is because they are all low caloric diets. Put someone on a low caloric diet and like magic...poof.... the weight comes off. But what are you losing? Your sanity for one followed by water loss and muscle loss which is the last thing you want to lose.

Registered Dietitian, Amy Carlson has joined MerlinoFitness.com to help cut through the food fallacies out there and give you straight answers so you can make sense of it all. We will pull in the latest research to prove our points when needed and explain how controlling your eating habits cannot be done in a vacuum without keeping your body moving with cardiovascular fitness and gaining muscle with resistance or weight training. It takes work but it is a proven formula that works and will keep your weight off for years instead of days or months.

We will also review some of the hottest supplements; what is worth spending your money on to fill those gaps in your diet and what may not be the safest alternatives. Research shows that we all can benefit from supplementing our diets with vitamins and minerals that may be lacking.

So take a spin through the nutrition links. We know this is a hot topic with everyone so we will be loading this section up with as much content as we can get our hands on.

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