Published April 10, 2015

Simple way to increase muscle mass

Everybody knows that one of the most important things you can do for your health as you get older is to maintain a healthy muscle mass. But that’s not so easy. It’s certainly not as easy as it was when we were younger. Studies have shown that older people lose the muscle mass they gain from exercise at an alarmingly fast rate. Stop for about two months and you are back to square one. But what if there was a pill you could take that could significantly increase your muscle mass in only months? Well, according to a recent experiment it looks like there is such a pill. 

 

 

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Published April 8, 2015

Why some people have big muscles and others don't

I've told you in the past that I'm far more concerned about your muscle mass than I am about your overall weight. People with a solid muscle mass tend to stay healthy longer and have fewer health problems than those who don't have as much muscle. But some of us, including me, have trouble maintaining muscle mass.

 

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Published April 6, 2015

How long does it take a bad diet to cause problems?

Let's say you radically changed your diet to one that was deficient in various vitamins or minerals. How long do you think it would take before your body started showing the signs of a nutritional deficiency? One month? One year? Longer? It may surprise you to learn that poor diets often create damage to your body long before the final signs show up. Here is a case of a woman whose poor diet did not start to damage her eyes until three or four years later.

 

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