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Losing belly fat is not easy. There are many ways to lose belly fat like hitting the gym, high intensity cardio to fasting. If you want to lose belly fat and maintain it the best way along with exercise is by managing diet. Go for a protein rich healthy diet. A low carb abd high protein diet not only helps you lose belly fat but also improves immun..

We are often skeptical of the fact how vegetarians and vegans get all their protein intake from. Since meat constitutes the major source of protein and vegetarians and vegans are people whose diet is devoid of meat. Ever wondered where do they get their protein from? There are other sources of protein except for meat. For vegans, milk or animal pro..

BCAA or Branched-Chain Amino Acids are among the twenty different types of amino acids required for protein alternatives. BCAA also falls in the category of those nine amino acids out of the twenty considered essential amino acids. Our body cannot naturally create them by crucial amino acids, and we need to take them artificially. There are three d..

Why Amino Acids? Proteins need to be metabolized into their simplest form (amino acids) order to be effectively used by the body. There are 20 amino acids which are needed for human growth and metabolism. Twelve amino acids (eleven in children) are termed as non-essential; this means that they can be metabolized by the body an..

Yes, with the festive season and the party season coinciding in the coming months, mass-gainers are seeing a surge in popularity both in retail stores as well as on the web. High queries on search engines for mass gainers mean just one thing that they are the super-foods of the future. Power packed with whey protein supplements..

It’s a common saying that you take one step towards success and success takes two steps towards you. The same holds true for your health as well. The food that we consume daily is not sufficient to make us a super performer. You need to do put something extra in your diet for incredible results. Extraordinary results demand ext..

If you are at the take-off stage in your career when you must work continuously for long hours, compromise sleep and have very little time for exercise, then what do you do to be in good health? You are bound to gain weight in the wrong places rather than gaining weight uniformly. Some patients take the short-cut of taking medi..

Cardiovascular exercises like running, jogging, circuit training, Zomba, salsa are the axis on which the entire fitness quotient of a person depends. Cardio is the only way to ensure that exercise touches each and every muscle in your body. It is the cheapest way to ensure that you look good in every dress and recover faster af..

What are Anabolic Mass Gainers? Anabolic mass building is simply defined gaining weight and converting it to muscles. Lifting weights alone is not going to do the trick; unless you pack in more weight you’re not going to bulk up, something that anabolic mass gainer can do. Under ordinary situations, you will only put on fat wh..

Whey Protein-Behind the Scene Whey protein is a mixture of proteins isolated from whey. Whey is the liquid part of milk that separates during cheese production. Milk actually contains two main types of protein: casein (80%) and whey (20%). Whey is found in the watery portion of milk. When cheese is produced, the fatty parts of ..

Amino Acids An amino acid is a type of organic acid that contains a carboxyl functional group (-COOH) and an amine functional group (-NH2) as well as a side chain (designated as R) that is specific to the individual amino acid. Amino acids are considered to be the building blocks of polypeptides and proteins. The elements found..

Amino Acids and their role in the body There are 3 types of amino acids: essential, non-essential and conditional amino acids. Essential amino acids are not made in the body and are vital for growth, repair and maintenance and thus need to be taken from the diet. While non-essential and conditional amino acids are made by the ..