The Body Mass Index (BMI) is a data that you will obtain by your weight and height. This number pretends to indicate a value of healthy weight, comparing it with the obtained ranges by studies that have been done to a determined quantity of people.

Since 1980, the BMI has been used as a nutritional indicator. This establishes that a high BMI indicates that you will develop illness associated to overweight.  It can’t be applied to all the people, since these studies left out: children, pregnant woman, elders or people that are missing any limb.

The BMI is calculated dividing the weight in kilograms by the height in square meters (Kg/m²) (in metrics units).

For example, a person that weight 190 lbs. (in metrics is 86 Kilograms) and is 5′ 9 inches tall (in metrics is 176 centimeters or 1.76 meters):

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Posted: February 9th, 2011 under 2- Basics.
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The weight is the most popular indicator to determine if you are between normal ranges. But this indicator doesn’t really show your real state, even less if you have low or high fat.

Before explaining this, you must be conscious that the body is compounded by multiples tissues and structures. When the goal is slim down you must pay attention to 3 key elements: the muscle mass, the fat and the corporal liquid:

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Posted: February 8th, 2011 under 2- Basics.
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Inside the three areas that you can handle to increase metabolism in a natural way, you can find the digestive process which has a relation with the food we eat.

In this process there are some factors that you have to keep in mind: the quality of the food, the frequency you eat them and the proportion.

But now I am going to tell you about other elements that come very handy to increase your metabolism rate: The Natural Boosters.

When we have the conviction of weight loss, many times we get some type of supplement which will assure us that we will burn fat, tight the tissues and other of thousand wonderful things. Ok, I’m not telling you that these supplements are bad or will not fulfill with what they promise, the problem is most of them reach a very high price and other can be bad to our health if we don’t know what we are really taking. (Don’t worry, in other articles I will analyze the most famous ones).

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Posted: February 6th, 2011 under 2- Basics.
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To weight loss or gain muscle mass you have to take changes in your life style. These changes will make your body react and produce some results.

The problem comes when these results are not what you were expecting: have you been in the situation were you start a diet or an exercises routine and the first weeks you notice that you lost weight or with more muscle mass, but as time passes you reach a plateau and you don’t see any other changes? Or have you done a diet just as the book said and there haven’t been any apparent results?

This happens when our body reacts by the 3 basic laws, which you must previously know to be able to avoid these problems. If you know these laws, you will be able to “trick” your own body to slim down or increase your muscle mass, and also you will be able to do it as fast as you were in the beginning of the diet or routine, and even better : Extend the results for all the time you want!
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Posted: February 6th, 2011 under 2- Basics.
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Since I remember I have heard an endless ways and diets to slim down fast. Probably a lot of us got tricked by one of these. And if it is, so you realized, the same as me, that if a few of them actually works for a while, they can make us get fat the same or even more than what we were before.

Let me explain you the true reason why common diets always fail. And it is not just that, they also are a risk for your health.

First of all, let’s understand that the nature of these diets come from an endless source of knowledge: Ignorance.

Let me give you an example so you can understand what I mean:

Some time ago I had a neighbor: Miss Ana, since a couple of years ago she had some extra pounds. One day she woke up and went straight to her mirror. Just when she looked at her bulging stomach she made up a decision: I am going to lose weight!

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Posted: January 12th, 2011 under 2- Basics.
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If you follow a high quantity of proteins diet to get ripped, is important to drink a lot of water to keep clean your body urea.

A high quantity of proteins diet are excellent to slim down and rip your body in a extreme way, it must be always for a short time (no more than 3 – 4 months). Also, high quantity of proteins diet usually generates many harmful elements for your body. Is important to drink a lot of water to eliminate these excesses by urinate.

Posted: August 11th, 2009 under 9- Quick Tips.
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Protein supplements are good to obtain all the range of amino acids that our body needs. Even if we keep a high primary protein diet, it’s hard to calculate if we are consuming all the amino acids that we need in the exact doses. It’s a good idea that you include in your diet a protein supplement to cover these needs.

Posted: August 8th, 2009 under 9- Quick Tips.
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L-glutamine is a very important amino acid to recover the muscles. It’s almost 60% of our musculature and when we are in a regimen or with a lot of physical activity, we generally spend more glutamine of what we can restore with our own food, even if we are following a regimen with high quantity of proteins. In times of stress or low caloric consume, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to add a glutamine supplement to your diet.

Posted: August 8th, 2009 under 9- Quick Tips.
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One of the fundamental things to slim down fast is to be able to increase and accelerate your metabolism in a natural way. But before, it’s good to understand and understand it well what is metabolism and how can it help you.

In simple words, metabolism is the complex physical and chemical changes that happen in the body. Some process use energy and others release it. The necessary energy it is obtained from the food that you eat and it is measured in calories.

So by this you will be able to understand that the quantity and quality of food is very important to keep our metabolism healthy and make all organs and body functions work correctly.

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Posted: June 17th, 2009 under 2- Basics.
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For many, the way we live our life doesn’t give us time to dedicate taking care of our health. The lack of physical activity and the poor quality in our alimentation are making our body suffer, without realizing that we are getting fat and we are being inactive.

But don’t worry about this,  it can easily be turned around.

Our jobs and studies are the main reasons of this. Many times we don’t have time to eat healthy and we choose what’s easier to get and at the same time being satisfactory: Fast Food. If you have watched the documentary “Super Size Me”, you will realize that this kind of food can cause serious problems in short time.

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Posted: June 11th, 2009 under 1- Introduction.
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