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The Alternation Diet
A Sure-Fire Way To Build Muscle And Shift Fat
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By Al Wilson
Believe it or not, when it comes to stripping off fat the type of food you eat is more important than the amount. In spite of popular belief, the number of calories you consume is less important than the chemical structure of the foods in your diet.
I suggest you chuck out all of your books on dieting and take up a more natural approach to dieting, based on evolution.
I am, in other words, introducing to you the alternation diet.
I don’t think more has been written on any other subject, apart from on sex, than on diets. Everything to do with dieting and above all with shifting fat is an absolute goldmine for editors, supplement manufacturers and even more so for pharmaceutical companies, since huge sums of money are handled.
However, as you’ll undoubtedly know, since it’s a constant news item in developed countries, excess weight and obesity are besieging the population and have become a real epidemic. Besides the health problems and the greater risk of diseases and conditions, there is the constant loss of heart and the private frustration with one’s physique because, at a time when there are more fat people than ever, ironically the physique is taking on more importance and there is no place for flabby or fat physiques.
And yet, the perfect diet to become healthy, strong, muscular and lean is such a simple one.
But we’ll see it all more clearly if we take it step by step.
A history of food: the survival of mankind
Although there is nothing definitive in palaeontology, it is estimated that human life has existed on Earth for several million years and that the modern humans from whom we are descended have inhabited Earth for hundreds of thousands of years. On the basis of the x-chromosome, some geneticists believe that modern man emigrated from Africa between 200 and 100,000 years before our time and spread across the different continents. There is also evidence to suggest that humans have been crop farming for some 10,000 years in what is known as the Neolithic Revolution and these ‘farmers’ came to Europe and influenced the eating habits of Europeans in the Palaeolithic Age, who had been there for more than 40,000 and whose diet was based on hunting and gathering. The truly important fact is that until then, humans had survived and evolved around 2.6 million years before by hunting and by gathering fruit and berries, etc; only 10,000 years ago did they slowly convert to the basic agriculture that some countries began to practise, with growing and farming crops for food to survive.
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A Little Known Secret
For Packing On Many Kilos Of Muscle
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By Michael Sabaces
If you go at it like a titan in the gym, hammering yourself with extremely heavy weights, eat until the calories are pouring out of your ears and still aren’t building the muscle you want to, then something is wrong. And it may be the time for you to hear one of bodybuilding’s very well kept secrets.
For some time we have known that progress in bodybuilding, or lack of it, isn’t linked so much to our genes as it is to our body’s capacity to absorb nutrients.
Admittedly we don’t have the power to change our genetic heritage, but we can modify our body’s absorption capacity.
How many times have you heard someone as thin as a toothpick tell you they eat like a horse and yet don’t put on a single gram of weight?
‘Loads’ is the answer, I’m sure, but it’s also true that what these people consider to be a lot is actually not enough.
In those cases in which it seems impossible to put any weight on, a poor diet is almost always the reason.
It’s obvious that if the experts all say the diet accounts for 80% of one’s success in bodybuilding, then you can train like titans and shed blood, sweat and tears in the gym, but if you don’t supply your body with the nutrients it needs, the development will be conspicuous by its absence or, at best, extremely poor.
However, it’s also possible for you to not train perfectly but feed your body with all of the nutrients it needs to build the muscle and still witness respectable gains.
The secret to building up big, therefore, is for the body to receive lots of nutrients and this means the focus is on dieting.
Obviously you all understand that to put large muscles together you must hit the weights hard, lifting as much weight as you can and performing compound exercises. But if your body fails to make the very best use of the nutrients, there will be no development.
And when the aim is to make full use of the nutrients in your diet, you must focus on your body’s absorption capacity. In fact, we’re not what we eat: we’re what we absorb. Those are two very different things, neither of which has anything to do with the genes.
Maybe the genes aren’t so decisive
For sure a lot of you are convinced that our genes determine the amount of muscle we build. You’re right, but only partly. People who have been skinny all of their life are convinced they will remain like that forever, simply because they think that must be their genes’ design for them. However, thousands of people like this have learned to manipulate their metabolism with specific dietary habits to build kilos of muscle in the end and become bigger, stronger men. In all cases their genes remained the same as they were before. No one can change their genetic heritage.
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