Six Pack Abs

Unsaturated fats

Since the 1950’s, plant-based unsaturated fats have become the answer of the food industry and government to our health problems. Why then have these problems only increased since that time? Let’s first look at the financial benefits to using unsaturated vegetable fats versus saturated fats like butter. Take a cookie, for example. Butter comes from cows and cows cost money. More money than having a field of sun flowers or corn from which you can press oil. Butter also has a shorter sell-by date. That’s why cookies are no longer made from butter. You will often find the very vague description ‘vegetable fats’ on the label, meaning they chose the cheapest unsaturated fat available at the time.

Cholesterol

Being afraid of high cholesterol is totally unnecessary. In Japan, high cholesterol is seen as a sign of health! Have you seen the health of these people? Why is cholesterol okay in their book but not ours? Once again we need to turn to that single one-sided study done by Ancel Keys in the early 1950’s. We learned to measure cholesterol and divided it up into ‘good’ cholesterol (HDL) and ‘bad’ cholesterol (LDL). Again an entire industry has been based on this, not just the food industry but also the pharmaceutical industry which tells us that their highly dangerous statins (cholesterol-lowering drugs) lower the ‘bad’ LDL cholesterol and up the ‘good’ HDL cholesterol.

I often get asked to write down some basic rules of what to eat and what not to eat. There’s a lot of information out there but it’s often fragmented and, even worse, contradictory. All I can do is give you my vision on fatal and vital foods. I base this on nothing but common sense. Here goes.

Sugars

There has been so much confusion about the topic of good carbohydrates and bad carbohydrates in recent years… I wanted to help clear up some of that confusion for you and set you on a clearer path to lifelong fat loss success and healthier eating.

First of all, although I am not a “low carb” believer (I certainly don’t think extremely low carbohydrate diets are healthy), I do believe that one of the main reasons that the vast majority of people struggle to ever lose weight is that they are over-consuming processed refined carbohydrates such as pasta, bagels, breads, cereals, rice, muffins, sodas, juices, candies, crackers, etc.

As a fitness freak, I’m always amazed (and puzzled) with the conflict people seem to have with losing weight, yet they refuse to stop eating junk food. An interesting thing I have noticed that almost every single person that has told me that they are “attempting” to lose weight, almost always has their house filled with all sorts of junk food instead of whole unprocessed natural food.

It is not uncommon for people to tell me that they are trying really hard to lose weight, but I will still notice boxes of apple jacks and fruity pebbles on their counters, cakes, candies, and chips in their cupboard, and sodas or syrupy juices in their refrigerator.

Without proper nutritious diet, no amount of exercises and work outs would make any difference. Read on certain facts related to nutrition that should be kept in mind while bodybuilding….

The link between Nutrition and 6 pack abs

Daily workouts, strength, and stamina is what people think is required to get 6 pack abs. They give secondary importance to nutrition. In fact nutrition should be the priority. Without proper nutritious diet, no amount of exercises and work outs would make any difference.  Remember one thing, have good healthy food for building 8 pack abs. Nutrition is an essential ingredient for its success.

Vitamins and minerals make people’s bodies work properly. Although you get vitamins and minerals from the foods you eat every day, some foods have more vitamins and minerals than others.Vitamins fall into two categories: fat soluble and water soluble. The fat-soluble vitamins — A, D, E, and K — dissolve in fat and can be stored in your body. The water-soluble vitamins — C and the B-complex vitamins (such as vitamins B6, B12, niacin, riboflavin, and folate) — need to dissolve in water before your body can absorb them. Because of this, your body can’t store these vitamins. Any vitamin C or B that your body doesn’t use as it passes through your system is lost (mostly when you pee). So you need a fresh supply of these vitamins every day.

Lack of Sleep leads to Poor Appetite

Inadequate sleep causes fatigue ness in the person. As a result the person doesn’t feel like eating much and doesn’t even feel active throughout the day. A few days of inadequate amount of sleep is not harmful but if it’s for a prolonged period, then it would affect your immune system and training process.

Muscles grow during Recovery Phase

Sleep is an important part of the whole training process. It’s as important as workouts and nutrition. When you rest, your muscles grow. Read on to know the importance of sleep for 6 pack abs.

Gyms around the country are packed with both adults and teens working hard to get enviable 6 pack abs. They work out with dedication, junk the junk food and eat healthy stuff and even then they are unable to achieve the desired results. Well that’s because quite often people overlook the importance of sleep. Sleep is an important part of the whole training process.

Processed foods are becoming ever more popular as more and more people find them more convenient and less time consuming than regular cooking. And indeed, it’s very easy to just go to the supermarket, pick up a package or two of something, head on home, shove it in the microwave, let it cook for 5–10 minutes, and voila… you’ve got dinner ready in no time and little hassle.