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how do you get bigger muscles?
My boyfriend wants to get bigger. muscle wise. hes a fence installer so he has a pretty physical during daily work but he has a little extra chunk (i personaly like :-) but he doesnt what should he do to change that?
i have to agree w/ the bloating from aspartame. i myself have experienced the bloat while partaking. I have since stopped any and all diet products w/ unnatural sweetner. :)
Let me add my two cents from personal experience: my whole life I avoided sugary soda and only because I got tired of drinking water, one day I switched to one can of diet soda per day. One per day for one year and was I ever surprised that suddenly I had extreme hair loss, dark circles around my eyes, was constantly bloated and even got my first cavities in decades. I looked really sick for the first time in my life. I have not touched any of this stuff since and am back to normal but it took a year. No proof but since this had been the only change in diet, I am pretty sure it was due to aspartame.
I appologize if I am incorrect, after all I am not a professional and everything ANY user sugests should be researched thuroughly before taken into effect. I have included what is claimed to be the original FDA report into the investigation of aspertame. I am neither assuring anyone that this document is official, or that the FDA is involved in any sort of fabrication or 'cover up' in regards to the safety of aspertame. I personally have not read through the report, and should have before commenting on the use of it.
I don't know what the "Townsend Newsletter for Doctors & Patients" is, but I do know it's not a peer-reviewed scientific journal. I'm talking about Lancet, Science, Nature, JAMA, NEJM, and other reputable journals. There are probably also some in other countries and languages that would qualify.
Methanol is found in lots of products, including wine. It's found in higher concentrations in wine than it is in diet soda. I don't see anybody trying to ban wine. It's also found in most common household products that we use around the house.
Aspartame has been studied over the last 30 years more than any other additive in the history of food processing. It's been studied in multiple countries, both pre-marketing and post-marketing. It's been overanalyzed to death. So far, there is not one shred of scientific evidence that it causes anything it is claimed to cause, from brain tumors to warts. None.
The FDA argument doesn't wash here. If you bought that the FDA is "conspiring" to withhold data on aspartame, or simply approved it for use knowing that there was evidence that it was unsafe, you would have to buy into the notion that they are involved in a massive conspiracy to cover up data found in multiple countries on aspartame testing amassed over 3 decades of research and scientific scrutiny. Sorry, but that would be a conspiracy of such massive proportions that it would rival the moon landing conspiracy in its scale. In other words, your belief system about asparatame is just another day in the non-evidence-based neighborhood.
So good for Dr. Townsend and his newsletter but ... no. Sorry.
Methanol is found in lots of products, including wine. It's found in higher concentrations in wine than it is in diet soda. I don't see anybody trying to ban wine. It's also found in most common household products that we use around the house.
Aspartame has been studied over the last 30 years more than any other additive in the history of food processing. It's been studied in multiple countries, both pre-marketing and post-marketing. It's been overanalyzed to death. So far, there is not one shred of scientific evidence that it causes anything it is claimed to cause, from brain tumors to warts. None.
The FDA argument doesn't wash here. If you bought that the FDA is "conspiring" to withhold data on aspartame, or simply approved it for use knowing that there was evidence that it was unsafe, you would have to buy into the notion that they are involved in a massive conspiracy to cover up data found in multiple countries on aspartame testing amassed over 3 decades of research and scientific scrutiny. Sorry, but that would be a conspiracy of such massive proportions that it would rival the moon landing conspiracy in its scale. In other words, your belief system about asparatame is just another day in the non-evidence-based neighborhood.
So good for Dr. Townsend and his newsletter but ... no. Sorry.
Aspartame is a molecule made by joining two amino acids together, which makes it a protein fragment. That protein molecule breaks down into formaldehyde, a known carcinogen, and methanol (wood alcohol), which is a toxin capable of causing blindness. The FDA decided that this wasn't much of an issue, since the amounts of these two substances generated from the breakdown of aspartame didn't reach toxic levels -- hence the consumer had nothing to worry about. What about those who routinely have a dozen cans of diet soda a day? Or low-fat or sugar-free deserts (which are filled with the stuff)? Even if the FDA were right in thinking that small amounts of the two neurotoxins made from aspartame are "safe," I'm not sure anyone knows the long-term effects of that kind of consumption
In an excellent review article in the January 2000 issue of the Townsend Newsletter for Doctors and Patients, Dr. H. J. Roberts chronicles his own extensive experience with the "many serious side effects and medical/public health hazards attributable to aspartame products" (his words, not mine). He believes, based on his database of more than 12,000 "aspartame reactors," that aspartame can cause neurological, psychological, endocrine and metabolic problems, can cause, aggravate or accelerate migraines, and, in sensitive people, can be downright addictive. In susceptible people, "consuming aspartame may result in such symptoms as mood disturbances, sleep disturbances, headaches, dizziness, short-term memory loss, fuzzy thinking and inability to concentrate."
In an excellent review article in the January 2000 issue of the Townsend Newsletter for Doctors and Patients, Dr. H. J. Roberts chronicles his own extensive experience with the "many serious side effects and medical/public health hazards attributable to aspartame products" (his words, not mine). He believes, based on his database of more than 12,000 "aspartame reactors," that aspartame can cause neurological, psychological, endocrine and metabolic problems, can cause, aggravate or accelerate migraines, and, in sensitive people, can be downright addictive. In susceptible people, "consuming aspartame may result in such symptoms as mood disturbances, sleep disturbances, headaches, dizziness, short-term memory loss, fuzzy thinking and inability to concentrate."
Can you show us some peer-reviewed studies (from reputable medical or scientific journals) indicating that aspartame is damaging to the body? I'd be interested in seeing those studies.
drinking water defiantly helps clean your system. It can help balance out sodium (which I use it for regularly) I think AnnasMum hit the nail on the head there. He's getting his exercise, he just needs to lay off the soft drinks. Alot of people get pulled into the diet soda's which are equally if not more damaging to your body than having the regular sugar-packed can. Aspartame, although controversial is proven to have quite an impressive list of side-effects that anyone in their right mind would avoid. He doesn't need to quit cold turkey, but if he cuts back a bit a See's a difference it might give him the incentive to kick the habit.
Drinking water doesn't help your metabolism. Unless it helps you curb your appetite. He has to burn fewer calories than he's using. If he has a physical job, what he does during the day is his BASELINE. That means he has to do some strength training or aerobic work or other physical movement over and above what he's doing in his job.
A lot of folks don't drink water - they drink everything but water. It doesn't really matter as long as it doesn't have any calories - it can be coffee, tea, diet soda, that Crystal Light stuff, bottled mineral water, or tap water. Anything fluid without calories will work. It's all water!
I think you are on the right track with the low carb, high protein. See if you can get him to change his diet to what you are eating. He needs to exercise over and above what he's doing during the day, but if he switches to low carb, that'll start getting the fat off as well. See if he can stay lower than 20 grams of carbs a day, and the weight will start flying off of him.
Drinking a lot of water won't get the marshmallow off him. He's gotta change his eating habits (to what you are doing) and keep up the physical work.
A lot of folks don't drink water - they drink everything but water. It doesn't really matter as long as it doesn't have any calories - it can be coffee, tea, diet soda, that Crystal Light stuff, bottled mineral water, or tap water. Anything fluid without calories will work. It's all water!
I think you are on the right track with the low carb, high protein. See if you can get him to change his diet to what you are eating. He needs to exercise over and above what he's doing during the day, but if he switches to low carb, that'll start getting the fat off as well. See if he can stay lower than 20 grams of carbs a day, and the weight will start flying off of him.
Drinking a lot of water won't get the marshmallow off him. He's gotta change his eating habits (to what you are doing) and keep up the physical work.
water..........no sodas or sugar. if hes working his butt off at work all day, then hes prolly getting plenty of muscle toning.....drinking ALOT of water (100oz) throughout the entire day will work up his metabolism, and it will burn off the flab on top of the muscle.....
your muscles are ALWAYS there....the only thing is you cant see them because of the fat. you have to make the fat go away, not make the muscle bigger, and water is what helps that.....it was hard for me too, i drank at least 2 12packs of coke a day before. and now i drink so much water my pee is clear. lol it cleanses your body, plus it helps your metabolism. just keep bothering him about it and maybe one day if he REALLY wants to lose the flab he will!
but its really not a big deal if YOU thinks its cute anyways *wink wink*
but its really not a big deal if YOU thinks its cute anyways *wink wink*
i try to make him drink alot of water but he doesnt he LOVES SODA!!!! thats all he drinks is soda and loves pasta im going on a low carb high protien diet and i hope that might help but its had for me to get him to drink alot of water
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