The Top 10 Fitness & Health Books

Books are boring, they are used for decorating a library in the living room, or as a door stopper. Also, my personal favorite, to lift the screen of your computer. So what is about books why people keep publishing them.

Well, it’s because books are the most complete, dense and worthy source of information. Articles can be written by anyone. But writing a book takes courage and time, which very few are willing to sacrifice for the education of others. (Like we do @ Dutrition).

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7 Tips to Stick to Your Diet

When was the last time you tried to lose some weight? Went on a diet for a couple of weeks, the scale didn’t move much and you just returned to your old habits?

Sticking to a diet is a bitch. No more than 20%[1] are actually losing the weight and keeping it off.

But that 80% didn’t have my advice. You will not be in the 80%, you will be one of the few that have the knowledge to keep being on a diet for as long as they want.

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The Breakfast Meal

One of the hottest topics around dieting is breakfast. I see so many people struggle with their diet and yet they make all these awful choices of foods that really don’t help them attain their goal. Believe it or not, there are actually people thinking that breakfast is a mandatory meal of the day (God forbid if you want to skip it) and the most healthy choice would be a toast with cheese and turkey, and a glass of orange juice (that’s for getting every vitamin you need, when you only get a small amount of Vitamin C).

Yet day in day out, the scale doesn’t move, the energy levels drop, and everyone goes around wondering what was that they did wrong.

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Building a Diet Plan: #2 Macronutrients (Macros)

Macros are the key ingredient to a proper diet plan, period.

If you don’t know what macros are or you don’t know how to follow a good macros strategy, we got you covered. But we need to start from the top.

What we are going to learn in this post:

  • What are the nutrients (micro and macro)
  • What are the best foods that provide us with these nutrients
  • How to integrate them into our diet plan
  • Myths about macros
  • What are the guidelines for consumption of these nutrients
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Building a Diet Plan: #1 Calories

Whatever is your fitness goal you need to have a plan. Failing to plan is planning for failure.

So I am going to give you a guide for making the best diet plan, from A to Z. Whether you are a beginner or a veteran in the sport of weight management, this guide will answer all of your questions.

You need to have adequate information in order to have a plan and follow it. When you are missing pieces of the puzzle, your plan is going to fall apart soon.

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3 Advanced Fat Loss Tips

Suppose you have been dieting for some time. Weight is being lost but it has slowed down a bit. You are being miserable from eating the same stuff every day.

Well done first of all. Not many have the courage to do that.

Now for pushing it a little further, I wanted to give you some tips that will really help you get rid of the final pounds.

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Intermittent Fasting, in simple words

It is a very popular and highly controversial way of dieting at the same time. Intermittent Fasting or IF, is a diet protocol that promises fat loss and muscle hypertrophy with the fastest results.

Reality or fantasy?

Too much stuff have been written about it and nowadays almost everyone in the fitness industry is advocating intermittent fasting.

So without further ado, let’s see what’s true and what’s not, and how YOU could benefit from intermittent fasting.

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A Primer on Strength Training

You think fitness and strength training don’t go together? Think again.

If I were to pick one activity that has the most benefits, that would be strength training.

In a few words, strength training, actually progressive overload, is a way to induce your body under acute stress which triggers the body’s natural response to adapt.

This means that it toughens our body and makes us capable of lifting, pushing and pulling big amounts of weight.

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How to Suppress your Appetite

Ever felt that you want to eat everything in sight? Like coming home from work and couldn’t stop from trying out that new pack of cookies?

I heard so many times from friends and family, how they can’t fight this feeling of hunger. They embark on a diet plan, but they can’t follow it for too long.

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9 Meal Prep Tips for Optimal Cooking

Ever started a diet only to fail after a couple of days because you didn’t have time to cook? Been there done that!

After years of trying to cope with meal prep and reading countless articles and threads on forums, I decided to write down the most underrated but yet valuable tips regarding meal prep.

Are you ready for it?

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