When deciding to follow a low carb diet, dieters often want to know what foods have no carbs. For those who count carbs, foods that have low or zero carbs are precious commodities.
Month: June 2016
The 8 Crazy Diets All Over the World
Over the years, people have tried some pretty crazy and downright ridiculous things in the pursuit of weight loss. But just when you thought that things couldn’t get much worse than drinking cabbage soup all day, they most definitely did. Check out our round-up of eight crazy diets people actually do, which we are most certainly not suggesting you try!
Is a big bum better than a belly?
True, muscle consumes around three times as much energy as fat, but the cells of our other organs are even hungrier. Fat people have larger organs and more cells overall to keep running, compared with their slim counterparts. This means that their overall energy consumption – or their resting metabolic rate – is larger. Source: Journal of Nutritional Sciences.
How much exercise offsets a hamburger?
How much sex is equivalent to a slice of cheese? And how hard is it to make up for a donut? Let’s examine just how much exercise is needed to offset your favourite snacks.
Chest Workouts for Bikini Season
It may not seem like it but warm weather is just around the corner. Don’t wait for the last minute to get the bikini cleavage of your dreams. Your chest is made up of two muscle groups the pectoralis major and pectoralis minor. When enhancing chest muscles you want to formulate workouts that include these muscles.
Toxic Food in Your Diet
What do we mean by toxic food? In his book In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, journalist Michael Pollan shares a simple manifesto: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.