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Have you ever heard that eating small, frequent meals throughout the day will help you lose weight? I bet you have. Increased meal frequency is supposed to offer various benefits to the average dieter. The most important alleged benefit is that eating many small meals will increase your metabolic rate. But, is this true?

Several epidemiological studies have actually linked increased meal frequency with lower obesity rates. The problem with this kind of studies is that they depend on the self-reported data of the participants themselves. To really determine whether high meal frequency is associated with lower weight, we need studies that use strict calorie control. Such studies do exist. A review of such studies was published in 2009 and involved 176 previous studies, where the participants ate from 1 to 9 times per day for a period of 2 to 8 weeks (for example here is one of the studies: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19943985). The interesting conclusion was that if there are accurate measurements of how much everyone eats, weight loss or maintenance remains independent of the frequency of meals and the only thing that actually matters is the total calories consumed.

But, how come everyone says that eating many, small meals will increase your metabolism and help you lose weight? Well, it’s simply a logical fallacy. Even though the notion that every time you eat you increase your metabolism is true, this doesn’t mean that the more times you eat the more calories you will burn. The problem is that the increase in metabolism is proportional to the calories contained in the meal. A small meal will cause a small metabolic boost and a large meal will cause a large metabolic boost. The only difference is that the person who eats eight smaller meals per day, will experience eight small increases in metabolism and the person who eats four larger meals per day, will experience four larger increases in metabolism. The end result will be exactly the same.

Have you ever wondered why eating a meal increases your metabolism? This happens due to the thermic effect of food. The thermic effect of food (TEF) is the energy expended during the digestion, absorption, storage and utilization of the nutrients contained inside the food. TEF is estimated at roughly 10% of total energy intake. In other words, whether you eat one 800-calorie-meal every 6 hours or two 400-calorie-meals every 3 hours, the thermic effect of food will stay the same.

When it comes to weight control, it doesn’t matter how often you eat, but how many calories you consume. The first thing you need to do is to determine the amount of calories that can help you lose weight and then divide these calories into as many meals as you want. This means that if you want to consume many meals per day, these meals will have to very small, even tiny. As you can see snacking is optional for weight loss. 

However, if you feel that eating more frequently helps you control your hunger more effectively; then by all means keep on doing just that. But, if you hate eating tiny meals every 3 hours, then you will be happy to know that it actually makes no difference.

So, does losing weight make you look younger or older? If we are talking about the body, then the answer is definitely yes. People with fuller figures usually look much older than people with slimmer figures. In fact, many overweight or obese teenagers look like adults in their mid 20’s.

But, what about the face? Does losing weight make your face look younger or older?

The answer here is trickier. There seems to be a fine line, between too little fat and too much fullness in the face. Both of them can make you look older.

A factor that you should take into consideration, when you are trying to figure out if losing weight will make you look younger or older, is your current age. According to an interesting research conducted by Dr. Bahman Guyuron, if you are younger than 40, being slim may help you look younger, but if you are older than 40, a few extra pounds may actually help you look younger. Dr. Bahman Guyuron studied the faces of 200 pairs of identical twins and concluded that extra weight in women under 40, obscures the facial definition that is an essential characteristic of a youthful face. On the contrary, older women would benefit from a few extra pounds, which could replenish the volume loss that comes with aging.

The negative calorie foods myth

Do negative calorie foods actually exist or is it a myth? If you do a quick search online, you will find a wide range of purported negative calorie foods. The most commonly cited examples are celery, broccoli, asparagus, cauliflower and cabbage. These foods supposedly take more calories to process than they deliver.  According to this theory, your body will spend more calories to process celery than the calories it contains. Some people even give exact numbers. For example, they claim that your body will spend 80 calories to digest a piece of broccoli that contains 25 calories and this would create a calorie deficit of 50 calories. So, the more broccoli you eat the more weight you lose, right?

If only things were that easy!

Unfortunately, the reality is that on average your body burns only about 10 percent of the calories contained in foods through digestion. This is called the thermic effect of food. Of course, some macronutrients cause a greater thermic effect (such as protein). Most of the “negative calorie foods” do require a pretty large amount of energy to get digested. What is more, they contain lots of indigestible fiber, which means that you won’t be absorbing the full amount of calories. However, don’t believe that these foods can actually help you lose weight. The calories burned during digestion, will only be a percentage of the calorie content of these foods.

Hollywood Physique for Men is a body transformation system created by Clay Rogers. This program is designed to help you get the Hollywood body look in only 13 weeks. The system is geared toward one thing: to achieve the right body proportions, without becoming overly muscular or very skinny. So, if you want to look like Arnold, then this program is not for you. But, if you want to look like Daniel Craig in Casino Royale or Brad Pitt in Fight Club, then look no further.

The Reverse Taper Diet Protocol is a system created by John Barban and Brad Pilon. This protocol uses advanced algorithms to help you estimate exactly how many calories you need to eat, in order to maximize fat loss and preserve your muscle mass. This is called Calorie Optimization and uses the theory of fat availability. According to this theory, the greater your body fat mass, the more fat you can burn in a day. Vice versa, being lean means less fat burning. Creating a calorie deficit that exceeds your body’s capability to burn fat can only lead to tiredness, lethargy and the loss of muscle mass.

The Reverse Taper Diet is a dieting protocol developed by Brad Pilon and John Barban. There are two versions of this system:  the Venus Index Reverse Taper Diet for women (also called the Venus Index Transformation Diet Plan) and the Adonis Index Reverse Taper Diet for men (also known as the Adonis Index Transformation Diet Plan).

Visual Impact For Women Review

Visual Impact For Women by Rusty Moore is a muscle building workout program that can help women get a slim feminine physique. Rusty Moore’s Visual Impact For Women is one of the most popular ladies fitness programs on the web right now, because it allows women to build a sexy, fit body like Hollywood celebrities, without getting too bulky.

The creator of this system, Rusty Moore, is a well-known fitness expert that runs the famous blog "fitness black book". Apart from the Visual Impact For Women ebook, Rusty Moore has also developed the best selling Visual Impact Muscle Building for men and the Visual Impact Cardio.

Have you ever heard the claim that saunas burn calories and can help you lose fat? So, is this claim true? Do saunas burn calories?

Everything burns calories. You can burn calories by simply sitting at your desk. This is called your resting metabolic rate, which means that you expend a certain amount of energy every day, even if you do nothing at all. The question is, do saunas burn significantly more calories than just sitting?

The Venus Index Workout is a 3-month weight training program for women who are trying to achieve the ideal figure. The Venus Index workout program combines strength training and conditioning and is designed to help you develop a lean and strong feminine body shape. The system includes three whole body workouts per week that can be performed at home with minimal exercise equipment. You need about 50 minutes to complete every workout and you can combine this exercise program with cardio, if you want.

The Venus Index workouts change from day to day and week to week, because they include different sets and rep patterns every time. Each workout is divided equally into upper body exercises (like push-ups), lower body exercises (such as, squats and lunges) and whole body exercises (like Squat & Press, planks, etc.) to ensure the balanced development of your body that will help you get the ideal Venus Index measurements. The Venus Index program includes a video exercise gallery that can show you in detail how to perform every exercise.