Healthy Weight Gain: Bulking Strategies & Nutrient Density

Successful bulking relies on high-calorie dietary planning, using appetite stimulation vitamins, and implementing male-specific muscle building routines.

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Weight-Gain Supplements for a High Metabolism

You might be the envy of your friends, but a high metabolism that makes it difficult to gain weight isn't always a gift, especially if you want to gain a few pounds. Weight-gain supplements might be a convenient way to add calories to get your weight up, but they might cause side effects in some people.

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The Best-Tasting Weight Gainers

To put on pounds the healthy way, you'll need to increase your calorie intake and do some strength training. You may have tried a weight-gain supplement as an easy way to boost calories but then found the flavor to be lacking.

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How a Man With a High Metabolism Can Gain Weight

With a high metabolism, you take in calories but don't see the instant gains on the scale that others who have different hormone profiles and genetic dispositions register. You're likely an ectomorph, a body type characterized by a lanky, long frame, narrow shoulders and little body fat.

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Chantix Side Effects on Weight Gain

Chantix, the brand name for the prescription drug varenicline, is used to help people stop smoking. It works in the brain to lessen craving, nicotine withdrawal, and satisfaction from smoking. Chantix treatment has been associated with weight gain.

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Foods That Help OCD

OCD, obsessive-compulsive disorder, is anxiety characterized by unreasonable fears and thoughts that lead to compulsive behaviors, such as repeatedly checking whether you locked the front door or washing your hands.

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Why Am I Gaining Weight After Walking a Mile Daily?

Walking one mile a day is an excellent way to start a fitness program. Walking raises your heart rate and burns calories. However, a slow walk for a short distance does not burn a significant enough number of calories on its own to promote weight loss.

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Gaining Weight on a Vegan Diet

When you follow a vegan diet, eggs, dairy, meat, fish and chicken -- as well as processed foods containing these ingredients -- disappear from your menu as you replace them with vegetables, nuts, seeds, beans and fruit.

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Healthy Tips to Gain Body Fat

Although obesity is a nationwide epidemic, some people need to gain weight to reach a healthy size. Weight gain may be required after illness or surgery. An older adult may unintentionally lose weight due to diminished appetite and food intake, subsequently experiencing poor health and frailty.

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How Much Weight Can You Gain From Sodium?

Sodium doesn't actually make your body gain fat -- it causes bloating and water retention that causes the number on your scale to rise. You can't predict, however, how much these numbers will increase when you overindulge in salty foods.

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Can You Gan Muscle Weight with Pushups?

Although the majority of Americans who exercise do so because they want to lose weight, bodybuilders and some other athletes will exercise for the exact opposite reason. Muscle mass improves performance in some sports and looks attractive on some frames.

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The Best Way to Bulk Up Quickly

Bulking up isn't something that happens overnight, even if you're genetically lucky and can build muscle fairly easily. If you're new to exercise, however, you'll see some results quickly -- even in a few weeks -- which can keep you motivated for the months or years it requires to bulk up significantly.

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What to Eat for Breakfast to Gain Weight

Skipping meals will not help you gain weight. Forget breakfast, and you continue the six- to nine-hour fast that occurred while you slept. Take advantage of the morning meal to add extra calories so you can put on pounds to achieve a healthy weight.

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Why Do People Gain Weight on Prednisone?

Physicians prescribe prednisone, a corticosteroid medication, when your body is not making enough corticosteroids due to illness and inflammation. These conditions include arthritis, multiple sclerosis, Crohn’s disease, lupus and certain cancer types.

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Zoloft & Weight Gain or Loss

Zoloft, generically known as sertraline, belongs to a category of antidepressants known as Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors, or SSRIs. Doctors prescribe Zoloft for treatment of depressive disorders, anxiety and other mental health conditions. Like other SSRIs, Zoloft may cause weight changes in some people.

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Health Risks of Gaining Weight Too Quickly

You might be tempted to gain weight as quickly as possible to address the issues of being underweight, such as compromised health and energy as well as possible low self-esteem. Increase your body weight slowly to avoid adding excessive body fat, though.

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