Weight Management: Metabolic Health, Bulking & Fat Loss Strategies

Weight management often depends on calculating metabolic rates, understanding fat biochemistry, and tailoring exercise programming for either muscle acquisition or structured fat reduction.

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How to Get Smaller Shoulders

Broad shoulders present fashion challenges and can make you feel self-conscious, but the size of your shoulders is based on genetics. Unless you're overweight, shrinking your shoulders is nearly impossible.

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How to Get Rid of a Stomach Apron & a Fat Flabby Belly

Rid yourself of a stomach apron and fat, flabby belly with sensible dietary and exercise techniques. Your apron is likely a result of omental fat -- deep visceral fat encased in the flap of tissue known as the omentum that covers and supports your intestines.

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How to Drink Grapefruit Juice to Lose Weight

The legendary grapefruit diet promised weight-loss results if you ate grapefruit or drank grapefruit juice before every meal. While this diet wasn't based on science, grapefruit juice does seem to have properties that promote a healthier body and weight.

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Protein Powder for Weight Loss in Women

Protein powder was once marketed only to people who wanted to build muscle and recover from hard workouts. Now, protein powder is considered as a possible supplement to help you lose weight.

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Low-Carb Breakfast Foods

A good breakfast sets the tone for the rest of the day -- it should keep you satisfied for hours after eating to prevent midmorning cravings, offer energy to keep you alert and provide essential nutrients to help you avoid a deficiency.

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Does Working My Abs Reduce Stomach Fat?

Exercises that promise to melt your middle are a staple in fitness magazines and on websites. Although these moves might make you feel the burn while they're developing the musculature of your abdominals, they won't rid you of the fat that covers your abs.

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How to Lose Belly Fat While Breastfeeding

The decision to breastfeed may be a healthy one for you and your baby, but it often complicates your attempts to lose weight—especially the unsightly postpartum belly fat.

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Can You Gain Weight When You Cut Calories?

You're doing your best to lose weight by watching what you eat and reducing portions, but the pounds continue to pile on. Decreasing your calories doesn't bring about weight loss unless you're consuming fewer calories than you burn daily.

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What Causes Lower Body Weight Gain?

Most weight gain in adulthood results when you consistently consume more calories than you burn. Even 100 extra calories per day can lead to a 10-pound increase in weight over the course of a year. Where you store that fat depends on your genetic body type, which is usually dictated by your gender and hormones.

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How to Increase Caloric Intake

Increasing your caloric intake helps you gain weight. To help you put on quality pounds in the form of lean muscle, make the calories come from healthy sources. If you're underweight because of injury, surgery or illness, adding nutrient-rich calories will help you heal.

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How Can a 16-Year-Old Boy Gain Weight?

Weight gain can help improve your performance in certain sports or fill you out so your physique matches that of other guys at school. Take in more calories than you burn daily to put on pounds -- but not just any calories.

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Normal Body Fat Percentage of Women Swimmers

Most female athletes carry between 8 and 15 percent fat, but swimmers usually have a bit more -- between 14 and 24 percent. While any body fat percentage below 30 is perfectly healthy for a woman, it's expected that competitive athletes be among the leanest and sleekest people around.

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Vitamins That Burn Fat Fast Without Exercise

No supplement, vitamin or food can actually burn fat from your body. Fat loss happens when you have an energy deficit caused by eating fewer calories than you burn. In some cases, a vitamin deficiency can make you feel sluggish and cause an uptick in hunger-causing hormones, making you gain weight.

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How to Get Rid of Fat Around Back of Waist

Fat around the back of your waist is affectionately known as your spare tire or on the sides, as love handles. The only way to get rid of this fat is to double down on your efforts to eat right and exercise. Portion control, reduced intake of certain foods and being physically active are key strategies to losing fat.

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How Much Cardio a Day to Lose Belly Fat?

A physically active lifestyle may extend your life and reduce your risk of developing heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, depression and some cancers. In addition to improving health, physical exercise helps you lose unsightly and unhealthy belly fat.

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How Men Lose Body Fat

To get a defined, enviable physique, a man needs to lose body fat -- not just overall weight. Having too much body fat puts you at risk for cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes, while shedding fat can help you feel healthier, fitter and more energized.

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What Is Healthy Body Fat for a 30-Year-Old Male?

Body composition is a better measure of your body's health than weight alone. You may be a normal weight for your height but carrying too many of those pounds in the form of fat, and having too much fat puts you at risk for chronic disease.

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