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Jump to it:9 fine waysto keep trim The hottest new health trends
February 27, 2008 Edition 1
Most of us enjoy having our finger on the pulse - being in touch with what's hot and what's not. But knowing and predicting consumer trends is also a serious business.
Trendhunter.com, the world's biggest online cool-hunting magazine, receives millions of hits a month and has an army of almost 20 000 trendspotters scattered across the globe, with around 25 new trends from some 190 countries reported every day. And according to Jeremy Gutsche, the site's founder, the fastest-changing subject area is new ways we can munch, glug, cook, move, stretch and exercise our way to hardcore health with minimum effort.
So if Power Plates, goji berries and antioxidants are all so last year, read on for the latest things to try if you're up for novel ways to stay slim, trim and radiant.
n There are fats that can make you thin. The hip acronym is MCTs (medium-chain triglycerides). Researchers at McGill University in Canada advocate the use of this type of dietary fat to prevent and treat obesity.
And a review in The Journal of Nutrition found diets rich in these fats led to increased energy levels, increased burning of calories and an overall decrease in food consumption.
Coconut oil and palm kernels are stuffed with these fat molecules, which are much smaller than those found in the majority of dietary fats, meaning they're digested faster and can be used as an immediate source of fuel instead of hanging around inside our fat cells.
Nutritionists in the know already advise cooking with organic coconut oil, which contains fewer calories than any other fat and is, paradoxically, more satisfying than other fats, meaning when it is added to meals you'll stay full for longer and consume less.
n Dangling like a monkey with your feet in two industrial nylon straps doesn't sound like the ultimate way to work every muscle and sculpt the body faster than you can say functional fitness.
But a newfangled fitness contraption called a TRX Suspension Training Kit has an army of American devotees. It doesn't look that special, but there are 300 exercises you can do either hanging by the legs or leaning back while gripping the straps.
The moves require you to engage your core and stay balanced and aligned, so you work up a sweat and hit muscles you could never target with standard machines.
n Touted as the new goji berry, Incan or Inca berries are golden dried fruits slightly larger than raisins from a plant that's indigenous to parts of the Amazon and which are rich in cholesterol-lowering pectin and B vitamins. Visit www.detoxyourworld.com for more details.
n This year's ultimate hi-tech fitness gizmo will come from Nintendo. The forthcoming Wii Fit packs measure body mass index, with exercise plans done on a balance board.
This requires building core strength and includes cardio, aerobic and yoga moves.
You might have bounced around in the school gym, but trampolining is set to become the supercool, super-efficient fitness trend of 2008.
Nasa scientists have labelled it the most efficient, effective form of exercise yet devised by man - it gets more oxygen and blood flowing than you'll ever achieve on a run or on the treadmill, as every bounce requires that you engage your core muscles (great for a flat tum), and no matter how black your mood there's something about bouncing on a huge trampoline that gets the feel-good endorphins flowing.
n High biological value protein powder. This is not the kind of protein powder you'd pick up in a gym or health shop. The protein powder to add to breakfast cereal or smoothies is called high-BV protein powder, which refers to high biological value, a rating system that indicates how well and quickly your body can use the protein you are eating.
High-BV powder has superior protein quality to milk and eggs, but without the calories.
The point about protein is that it's one of the best foods for muscles, which are one of the hungriest parts of the body. A lot of fat gets burnt in them and without good intakes of protein you'll burn fat less efficiently. Visit www.gfcfshakes.com for details
n Pressed for time? Try the 15-minute tum-bum-thigh burn. This involves the use of kettlebells and you could be forgiven for thinking these weights from the Soviets are a bit manly, but fitness gurus say once you've seen the results of using kettlebells you'll never return to the gym or use standard weights again.
The girlie status of kettlebells has been endorsed by the trend that's come over from the US - girlie pink and baby blue kettlebells are now available and, given that the exercises are easy to learn and deliver cardio, strength training and deep toning all at once - it's hardly surprising that busy, time-poor women are relieved to have found a fat-melting, toning exercise trend that delivers such speedy results.
Fifteen minutes of Russian kettlebell exercises will produce similar results to an hour spent switching from running machines to weights and mat-work in the gym, according to fitness consultant and former athlete Svetlana Writtle, who teaches and has produced a DVD explaining the killer moves.
n Twenty-two trials, including one clinical test conducted at Adelphi University in New York, show that the TreadClimber, which acts as a three-in-one stair-climber, elliptical trainer and treadmill, burns the same number of calories and works more muscle groups than can be achieved by running.
Gloriously for those of us who are anti-exertion, you would need to run on a treadmill for an hour and 20 minutes to burn the same number of calories as you would on the TreadClimber in only 30 minutes.
n Aloe vera has a big sister, Aloe ferox. It's a stronger, wilder version from South Africa, with double the protein and three times the polysaccharides, found to calm bloated, blocked insides, ease irritable bowel syndrome and help you to feel less sluggish after a meal.
The plant is also brimming with substances found to have potent anti-viral, anti-bacterial and anti-fungal properties. - The Independent
Trampolining is set to become 2008's supercool, super-efficient fitness trend.
Bodybuilding nutrition of the recent controversy surrounding the low-carbon diet and beef to replace chicken, fish these two topics. Beef muscle growth in the title of another diet plan the most important part. Frank Arnold Schwarzenegger and Columbus heard about this so-called latest developments will find simmer with laughter, because the couple from the early 1970s had begun to steak as a main meal - and this is back in scientific experiments confirmed on the following experience: in order to best effect, five daily diet of at least one or two beef.
The following are included in the beef daily diet of 10 fitness benefits:
1. Beef rich Sarcosinate
Beef in the creatinine concentration than any other food products, which makes it the muscle growth, empowerment particularly effective. Training in the first few seconds, sarcosine muscle is the source of fuel, it can effectively add adenosine triphosphate, so that training can adhere to the road.
2. Beef containing vitamin B6
Greater demand for protein diet should be increased by the greater of vitamin B6. Beef containing adequate vitamin B6 can help you to enhance immunity and promote the metabolism and protein synthesis, thereby contributing to tension in the body after the resumption of training.
3. Beef containing carnitine
Chicken, fish in the carnitine and low levels of creatinine, beef has a high content. Carnitine mainly used to support fat metabolism, a branched-chain amino acids, the muscle growth Aerobics athletes play an important role in an amino acid.
4. Beef protein and potassium content
Potassium in the diet of the majority of athletes compared lack of minerals. Low levels of potassium inhibit protein synthesis and the formation of growth hormone, thereby affecting the growth of muscle. Beef protein-rich: 4 ounces lean tenderloin steak can have 22 grams of protein class.
5. Beef is a low-fat source of linoleic acid
Beef fat content low, but rich combination of linoleic acid, the antioxidant potential of these can be effective against sports such as weightlifting caused tissue damage. In addition, linoleic acid also can be used as antioxidants to maintain muscle block.
6. Beef zinc, magnesium
Zinc is another kind of help protein synthesis, and promote the growth of muscle antioxidants. Zinc and salt of glutamic acid and vitamin B6 common, can enhance the immune system. Magnesium supports protein synthesis, enhance muscle strength, more importantly, can improve the efficiency of metabolism of insulin.
7. Beef iron
Iron is necessary for hematopoietic minerals. With chicken, fish, turkey pathetic in contrast to the iron content is rich in iron beef.
8. Beef containing alanine
Alanine the role of dietary protein is produced sugar. If you inadequate intake of carbohydrates, alanine muscles can supply the necessary energy to alleviate the shortage, so that you can continue to carry out training. This amino acid greatest benefit is that it will be able to supply energy from the muscles to liberate this burden.
9. Beef containing vitamin B12
Vitamin B12 is essential for the formation of cells, red blood cells and the role of oxygen is brought to muscle tissue. Vitamin B12 can promote branched-chain amino acid metabolism, which supply high-intensity physical training requirements of energy.
10. Beef consumption diversification
If day after day for weeks or even months to consumption, Jixiong is a nuisance. Beef is different, after the leg, Zefu meat, and the lumbar meat in the meat and fine texture and taste, are different, the chicken breast and tedious indeed quite different.
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