Health and Fitness

Your goal when trying to gain weight should be to eat many meals throughout the day. Sleeping overnight isn’t very conducive to this since you’ll be fasting for 6-8 hours which means no food. When you wake up, you need to ensure that you take in some good calories to break your fast.

Gaining weight means eating more than you burn. You should keep this in mind during each meal. Even though you need to eat a lot to gain the weight, this shouldn’t be an excuse to eat whatever you want regardless of how unhealthy it is.

Traditional breakfast items are high in calories (which is good) but most of these calories are unhealthy. Bacon, sausage and biscuits will help you gain weight but they might also give you a heart attack. There are good alternatives if this is the type of breakfast you enjoy.

Most pork products on the market have…

For years The American Heart Association has made specific recommendations concerning fat intake. This is all in an effort to reduce Heart Disease. Now they have come out new recommendations… These recommendations concern sugar intake.

In the past The AHA has only advised to “minimize” sugar intake. The recent guidelines call for added sugar to be kept below specific levels, 25 grams per day for women, 37 grams per day for men, and 12 grams per day for children. This amounts to about 100, 148, and 48 calories respectively. Why the shift? Because it’s known that surplus sugar can be converted into surplus fat.

The USDA reports that the average per capita annual sugar consumption is 153 pounds. That amounts to about 189 grams per day, or 756 calories per day from sugar for each person living in the U.S. That would mean that each person in the U.S. is consuming the…