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K11 Fitness Management Co. Pvt. Ltd. & Neulife Nutritions Presents a one day workshop (with certification) on NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTATION by the man who introduced India to the concept of Supplementation -
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‘Fad’ means a craze, a trend, a whim. That’s exactly what fad diets are: Crazy diets. Started by unscrupulous nutritionists & dietitians who just want to cash in on the weight loss band wagon.

Fad diets are mostly imbalanced in their nutritional approach. They may lack required energy, protein and vital vitamins and minerals that are essential for health, and run a high risk of leading to nutritional deficiencies. They are not only unhealthy, but also counter-productive to our final goal: an ideal body.

It may come as a surprise to many but sheer weight loss is not going to give any fat person the body he or she dreams about. Its only when the weight loss is selectively only in terms of body fat that the person will be happy with his or her body. Fat loss is going to give you the athletic toned body you want…NOT INDISCRIMINATE WEIGHT LOSS that does not distinguish between fat loss & muscle loss.

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When people enroll in gyms, their reasons for enrolling are varied & most often they want things that could actually harm them in the long term. A responsible fitness professional needs to understand the psyche of the enrolling member & through counseling, educate the member as to what’s best for him, rather than give into the demands of the member (A member hasn’t gone through the education required to understand the true meaning of fitness).

The following are the most common demands made by people enrolling in gyms & my response to them

1.    Got a wedding in the family…have to lose at least 10 kgs in a month…Already bought my clothes two sizes smaller & I don’t fit into them…

My Response:
We can do it for you…but we would only be doing you a disservice…The only way you could lose so much so fast is to indiscriminately lose weight through excessive cardio & soups n salads diet…You would lose 10kgs but with it lose so much muscle that you would end up doing the unthinkable – Lower your already sluggish metabolism…Once you get off the crazy diet you are going to bounce back & get those 10 kgs back…But you are not back to square one…When you lost you lost mostly muscle & when you gained your weight back you only gained fat…So the only effect weight loss is going to have on you is to ensure a FATTER you in the future…
SO sorry…but we cant always give you what you want…as what you want may not be always good for you…

2.    The only problem with me is that I have a protruding belly…I have just come here for getting my tummy in…So if you could just show me the abdominal exercises…

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Most people live fairly simple lives, without regular access to many of the luxuries discussed on lifestyle shows or flaunted in series . Yet, events arise from time to time allowing one to expand his horizons and experience some of the fineries of the elite…perhaps a wedding or a business trip with an expense account. The formal surroundings that often accompany these events provide opportunities to dance the waltz, consume foie gras (duck liver) or stay at a five-star hotel. The great majority never develops a taste for waltzing or exotic hors d’oeuvres, but some find themselves budgeting to indulge in these pleasures regularly.
A similar situation is seen in the culture of anabolic steroid (AAS) users. Most AAS users are “meat and potatoes” types who follow simple cycles of testosterone or Deca; some may dress up the cycle by stacking with an oral or adding an aromatase inhibitor, but nothing overly risky or cutting-edge. Yet, occasionally the opportunity comes along to try one of the drugs often mentioned in “elite”-level stacks. One such drug has long held an allure for those looking to define the physique…or female bodybuilders and the Hollywood/South Beach crowd seeking to lose weight. That drug is clenbuterol.
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The Stone Age Diet has many names: the Paleolithic Diet, the Paleo Diet, the Prehistoric Diet, the Caveman diet, or the Hunter-Gatherer Diet.

It traces the problem of obesity back to 10,000 years ago, with the advent of farming and cereal planting. During the Paleolithic period of the Stone Age (before the advent of agriculture), for over two million years, our ancestors were hunters and gatherers with a staple diet of lean meats, fish, fruits, vegetables and nuts.

These were then replaced by the modern-day staple diet of cereals, pulses, dairy products, refined fat and sugar.

These changes are associated as risk factors for so-called “diseases of civilization”: obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, autoimmune-related diseases, certain cancers, and vitamin and mineral deficiencies.

The theory goes that today’s human genes have evolved through 2.5 million years of the Paleolithic era but the last 10,000 years have not been enough for genetic changes to adapt to our relatively new farm-based diet.

It claims that we are nearly genetically identical to the Stone-age humans!

Our genetic make-up is of a hunter-gather: ‘designed’ for the consumption of plants, animals and seafood. Not designed for farming foods: grains, legumes and dairy products. Even less suited to modern processed foods such as sugar and refined fat.

To cut a long story short, an ‘ideal’ diet is the Stone-age diet!

Is this scientifically true? Lets take a look!

DIET PROTOCOL

In 1975, gastroenterologist Walter L. Voegtlin was one of the first to suggest the meat-based Paleolithic diet of chiefly fats and protein, with only small amounts of carbohydrates – arguing that humans are carnivorous animals.

The Stone-age diet claims:

We are ‘designed’ to consume ‘hunter-gatherer’ foods:

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