To Lose Body Fat, Don’t Skimp on Sleep
When your goal is to lose body fat, you’d expect to make changes to diet and exercise. But you might not think of factoring in sleep. It’s time to wake up – or rather, go [...]
How to Use Protein Pacing for Weight Maintenance
Once you reach your weight loss goals, keep protein pacing part of your plan for long-term, sustainable weight maintenance. As a professor of health and exercise sciences and director of the Human Nutrition and Metabolism [...]
How Much Protein Goes to Your Muscles?
The human body is capable of digesting large quantities of protein, but not all of it is used to synthesize muscle. Following a meal, protein digestion starts in the stomach by pepsin in the presence [...]
7 Ways Isagenix Practices Responsible Dairy Sourcing
Dairy ingredients play a key role in many Isagenix products. Whey protein derived from dairy, for example, is featured in many of our shakes and bars to support muscle maintenance during weight loss and muscle building for athletes and fitness-minded individuals.
Stay Fit Well into Your 60s
Gaining weight while losing strength is too often a consequence of getting older. A regular gym routine can help you stay in shape, but even consistent core exercises may not be enough to prevent inevitable muscle weakness and belly-fat gains.
Resistance Training for Better Weight Loss
Keeping muscle during weight loss should be just as an important a goal as burning fat.
However, people focusing on diet alone can lose anywhere from 20-30 percent of their weight loss from lean body mass, most of which is from muscle...
Protein: What You Need to Know
In its most recent position stand on protein, the International Society of Sports Nutrition, or ISSN, wrote that exercising individuals need approximately 1.4 to 2.0 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight per day (1).
Myth Busted: Eating at Night Makes You Fat
Is your late-night dinner the reason you can’t lose weight? The notion that calories in equals calories out, regardless of what time of day you consume them, might actually be dated advice.
Could a Protein Shake at Breakfast Help You Sleep Better While Losing Weight?
Restless nights can be quite normal when you’re trying to lose a few pounds. It’s not just those nightly cravings for carbs from the fridge that can get to you. Some scientific studies suggest that the calorie deficit could also disrupt normal sleep patterns likely because of its effects on the balance of neurotransmitters in your brain.
How Much Protein Can Your Body Use?
If you’re an athlete, or someone who lifts weights, the amount of protein your body can use may be much more than the average daily requirements, a recent study reports (1).
Published in the Journal of Nutrition, Canadian researchers found the average requirement of protein in resistance-trained male subjects to be 2.6 times greater than the current recommendations from the Institute of Medicine.