Fitness Man : proteins and weight loss

building muscle :

You probably already know that protein is crucial to building muscle. But did you know that it helps you burn fat as well? Now you have one more reason to like it.

Here's how it works:

No more insulin spikes



Taken alone, carbohydrates, specifically high-glycemic sugars, can cause insulin spikes. Getting some form of protein source to go along with your meals effectively keeps this from happening.

Cool. But what does it mean?

Well, a spike has two parts: a rapid increase and a rapid decrease. The first part is not so bad since it gives you a short energy boost. The problem lies in the second part. The rapid drop of insulin levels causes you to feel not only tired, but hungry-usually for other high-sugar foods-as well. SO make sure that you consume protein with most, if not all, of your meals.

No time to prepare protein-rich meals? Try instant sources like liquid egg whites instead. They're protein-rich and all-natural like regular egg whites but they come in a more convenient form.

Increased metabolism

Protein helps you build more muscle. Muscle is more expensive (in terms of calorie requirement) for your body to keep than fat. This means that the more muscle you have, the more calories you burn even when you're not doing anything.

The amount of extra calories burned may not be much according to some experts, but the little things add up. Besides, more muscle means you can work out harder and make your body a much more efficient fat-burning machine anyway so it's a win-win situation.

Decreased muscle breakdown

Your body prefers to use carbohydrates as its primary energy source because it's more readily available and easier to burn. However, the harder and longer you work at the gym, the bigger the risk that you'll run out of carbohydrates. When this happens, your body is forced to tap into your calorie stores, i.e., fat and muscle.

In the absence of readily available amino acids that come from dietary protein, your body feeds on your muscle instead. Less muscle, of course, results in a decreased metabolic rate and, over time, may also negatively impact your strength. So, the next time you hit the gym, bring a steady supply of ready-to-drink protein with you.

Tired of protein shakes? Grab a bottle of chocolate egg whites instead. They're a nice flavored alternative to regular liquid egg whites and your usual protein shakes.

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The 10 Absolute Worst Places To Be Relocated

1. Siberia, Russia

Usually covered in multiple feet of snow and everywhere is the middle of nowhere, you wouldn't want to be caught dead in Siberia. And believe me, many people have been.

Via: hotcherry

2. St. Helena

After escaping imprisonment from Elba Island, Napoleon was
ultimately left here--in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean--and
surrounded by British soldiers. It's his resting place, and it is
typically regarded as the most isolated place in the world; currently
there isn't even an operating airport and you can only reach it by
container ships. So yeah, you probably wouldn't want to get stuck here.

Via: hoosiersands

3. Devil's Island, French Guiana

Formerly a penal colony, no convict has ever escaped it alive, and
now it's wholly abandoned. In either case, it may look pretty, but looks
can--and often are--deceiving.

Via: flickr.com

4. Your Parents' Basement

A lot of people might be doing it these days, but let's face it. No-one wants to, first of all, move back in with their parents really.
And second, you can't even move into your old room because now it's the
"study." Plus, you'll be sleeping among all the rejected old toys, not
the cool ones that are still upstairs.

Via: incollingo.com

5. Buford, Wyoming

Not only is Buford located in Wyoming--the least-populated state in
the US--but Buford is the smallest locality in the country as well.
Until 2008, the town's population was two, but then Don Sammons's (who
is also the mayor) son moved out, leaving the population at the
loneliest number.

Via: farm4.staticflickr.com

6. New York City

Hey, NYC might not be that bad, but it can be pretty awful when you
show up there under the pretense of "achieving your dreams," in a
"luxurious loft" in Manhattan, the beauty of the "concrete jungle," and
all that. Instead, you'll probably end up like the guys on Delocated,
living in, uh... less than ideal settings. But at least you (probably)
won't be a part of a reality show or in the Witness Protection Program.
Well, at least not that last part.

7. Hamburger University

There's not really much that needs to be said about this. "Hamburger
University" is the "accredited institution" for people aspiring to be
McDonald's managers and higher-ups. Yeah.

Via: altopower

8. Svalbard

The northernmost settlement in the world, Svalbard is an island
located between the Arctic Circle and Norway. Its capital, Longyearbyen,
was formerly a hub for whaling. Now it just holds a vault with seeds
from all over the world, obviously. Oh, and there's a lot of reindeer
running around. Also, the average temperature in summer is 44 degrees,
and it's generally in the negatives for the rest of the year.

Via: neilmcquillan

9. Scottsdale, Arizona

Scottsdale is known for its resorts and beautiful golf courses.
Also, its extremely snobbish, horrifying people. "John," a former
resident who now lives in Newport, California, perhaps says it best:

Via: localphototours.metroshot.com

I lived in Scottsdale for a few of my years in Arizona.
It's a fun town with lots of fantastic restaurants, fun wine bars, and a
great singles scene if you're a young man with money in his pocket and not looking for a serious relationship. My wife and I still go back and visit once a year or so for the food, but would never live there again due to the miserable pretentious people.
I'm a very successful entrepreneur, and instead of embracing me, the
locals with their leased BMWs and Rolexes bought on credit snubbed me because they absolutely can't stand the presence of someone who is truly successful. Scottsdale is a haven of phonies who live on over-extended credit and HELOC loans. I packed my bags and moved to a city full of real successful people and have found it to be far friendlier here.

It's downright unfriendly
and in fact we never even met most of our neighbors. They would come
home, pull into the garage, and close the door as soon as the bumper
cleared in order to avoid talking to anyone. My street in "affluent" north Scottsdale was always full of repo men banging on people's doors and the cable guy disconnecting people for non-payment.

If you're a pro-douchebag who likes to make a "showing" then Scottsdale is for you. If you're legitimately successful, live somewhere else and only vacation there for the good golf and restaurants.

Source: bestplaces.net

10. The Yukon

Sure, the Yukon is beautiful in its untouched majesty, but would you
really want to deal with more than 200,000 square miles of emptiness?
The biggest town in the entire territory has only 22,000 people in it,
and there aren't roads transversing the the whole area. Good luck
getting home.

Via: dipity.com

Project Runway All Stars'

"Project Runway" returned to Lifetime Thursday night, but things looked a little different on "Project Runway All Stars."

While
all of the contestants were people we'd seen before -- naturally,
considering the "all stars" part of the title -- the casting change-up
instead came via a new host, mentor and judging panel.

Naturally,
we're wondering what to make of this role reversal. Was it strange
seeing a different blonde supermodel greet our designers, especially
since we've seen all the contestants interact with Heidi? Angela Lindvall
might be similar to Heidi on the surface (blonde, stunningly gorgeous,
occasional TV personality), but did she fill the German beauty's
stilettos? Or would you rather say auf wiedersehen to the new girl?

Then there's new mentor Joanna Coles, editor in chief of Marie Claire. How does she compare to Tim Gunn? Not enough catchphrases? Too British?

And as for new judges Isaac Mizrahi and Georgina Chapman: Did they critique enough? Were they too nice? Too harsh?

Basically,
we want to know what you thought of the slightly revamped format. Oh,
and there are also those contestants to think about. Who are you rooting for to make it all the way?

Awesome Street Art

 If you still need a proof that art can be found anywhere, those awesome examples of great street art should convince you.

Most Baffling Serial Crimes

#6. The Amish Hair-Cutting Spree

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It's not often you hear about Amish crime rampages, but when you do, they're hilarious.


For instance, in September of 2011 a man who was driving to a horse
auction with a bunch of Amish passengers unwittingly became Jamie Foxx
in a Mennonite version of Collateral when the passengers requested that he stop
at a number of homes along the way. Each time, the men would jump out,
race inside the home and then run back out and ask him to keep driving.
The driver thought it was weird, but who was he to question the quaint
and bizarre customs of the Amish?

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He's doing either air guitar or air sex. That bottom hand could really go either way.

It turns out that these men were part of an outcast Amish gang
who called themselves the Bergholz Clan, and they frequently terrorized
other Amish folk by bursting into their homes and cutting off their
victims' beards and hair. The gang leader was an exiled rogue Amish
bastard out for revenge, an unpleasant man named Sam Mullet.


No, really. His crime was cutting people's hair, and his name was Mullet. Like an old-school Batman villain.

mycolumbusjack

They're just hustlers getting hoes and plowing some God-given fields.

But Why?


Amish people aren't allowed to shave their hair or beards, as the
girth of a man's beard is an indicator of his masculinity, and also
apparently God has a problem with it. So the Bergholz Clan decided to
strike the Amish community with the worst insult they could conceive.

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Either an Amish lineup or the annual Live Action Roleplay Society photo.

If you don't understand, it's like a bunch of people bursting in at midnight and stealing guys' dicks.

#5. The Serial Butt Slasher

To get the most obvious joke imaginable out of the way right now,
holiday shopping in Fairfax County, Virginia, can be a serious pain in
the ass. By which we mean someone in Fairfax County shopping malls has
literally been randomly stabbing people in the ass.


This was the luck of one 18-year-old shopper
as she perused her local Forever 21. While bending over to pick up some
clothes that had fallen off a hanger, she felt a sharp pain in her
rear, the result of a quick, shallow jab with a knife. Since then, at
least nine women
have been slashed in the butt, and those are just the ones who came
forward. In most cases, the crime is so weird that the victims don't
even know they've been assaulted until they hear about the other cases
in the news.

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"I'm not coming forward for anything less glamorous than vehicular manslaughter."

The mastermind has refined his strategy to an art -- identifying an
unsuspecting and unguarded set of buttocks, the slasher will drop some
clothes items off a rack, and when the victim bends down to retrieve
them, he goes to work with a razor or box cutter, then swiftly
disappears into the night.

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Eluding even mall security's finest community college dropouts.

But Why?


According to former FBI profiler Gregg McCrary,
the butt slasher appears to have a ridiculously specific sexual
disorder known as "piquerism," which means that the attacker gets off on
cutting butts. Wait, this is common enough that it has a name?

Huffington Post

What's the name for staring into a girl's eyes while muttering the lyrics to "Careless Whisper"? It's for a friend.

Although no arrests have been made, a police task force created to hunt down the slasher has identified a suspect from security camera footage. But the man appears to have fled town, perhaps moving on to a shopping mall near you.

#4. The Elderly Vandal

Vandalism, being the most petty and pointless of crimes, is almost
exclusively the work of teenagers. When you find a crude erection spray
painted on your fence, you rarely look to the little old bingo
enthusiast across the street for answers. That's probably how
62-year-old widow Elaine Meredith got away with it for so long.

KaylynStar

Most opinionated old people just deface their own cars.

Over the course of 10 months, residents in the town of Caldicot in
South Wales had been bothered by what they could only assume was a gang
of hooligans carving obscene things
into the hoods of people's cars. Dozens of vehicles had been targeted,
and there was seemingly no way to stop the vandalism short of setting a
bunch of bear traps.


One day, 32-year-old Gary Smith heard what sounded like "chalk on a blackboard" outside his home, and upon investigating, discovered Meredith
and her dog skulking around his car, which presumably had a
half-finished dick carved into it. The lady claimed she had seen a bunch
of youths running from the scene, but the paint-encrusted craft knife
she was holding seemed to indicate otherwise.

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"But perhaps you can help me. What is the acceptable amount of pubes nowadays? Two or three?"

But Why?


The old lady won't admit she was doing it to this day, despite the
prosecutor actually bringing in a handwriting expert to confirm that the
"FUCK YOU"s etched into the more than two dozen cars were her own work.
It's not a case of the lady losing her mind to old age, either -- she
showed no signs of dementia.

OhShootShari

Always ask a parent or guardian to help you with knife work.

We just think "Put fuck words on every car in town" was on her bucket
list, like she is still working from the list she made when she was 13.

3. The Used Grease Thieves

It starts out like a Hollywood heist caper. A pickup truck pulls into
a secluded alley, and a group of career criminals exit the vehicle.
They smash apart the lock that stands between them and their bounty and
unreel a giant hose, siphoning their loot into tanks loaded in the back
of their truck. As quick as they can, they drive away with ...

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... a truck full of grease from a Dumpster at the back of a restaurant. Yes, just regular grease. Uh, good work, team?

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"We launder it through an Arby's."

Yes, proving once and for all that life imitates The Simpsons,
a gag plot line that had Homer and Bart ripping off restaurants for
their used cooking grease has spawned a real-life crime epidemic in
which people are doing exactly that (presumably while running a scam
with an auto-dialer in order to fund a plot to saw the head off the town
statue and ultimately create a giant shield to block out the sun).


But Why?


Regular kitchen grease can be filtered and purified into something
commonly called "yellow grease," a key ingredient in biofuel. With fuel
prices shooting up and the boogeyman of peak oil looming, the demand for
alternative fuels, and thus the value of grease, has skyrocketed. The
street value of grease has gone up about 500 percent in the past decade, making a gallon of grease rival the cost of a gallon of gasoline, and turning black market grease into a hot commodity.

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Grease theft has become so widespread and out of control that
restaurants are being forced to invest in security measures to protect
the disgusting crap you usually blot off your pizza with a napkin. Some
are even proposing its theft become a felony crime.

#2. The Newspaper Thieves

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In Denton County, Texas, a crime epidemic is underway that is taxing
police officers and small businessmen to the limit. There's no need to
put extra locks on your doors and buy a gun, although if you live in
Texas you probably already have three anyway. The criminals are just
cleaning out newspaper vending machines.

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The machines only shoot back, like, a third of the time.

Those machines have always sort of operated on the honor system --
you pay your 50 cents and the door opens up to the whole stack of
newspapers, and they trust you to just take one. It makes sense, because
there's no real reason anyone would want more than one, right? The news
doesn't get any better if you grab three instead of the one you're
entitled to.


But according to news vendor James Johnson, his boxes are being cleaned out up to 25 times a week,
and it's gotten so bad that he's had to hire extra staff to do nothing
but sit in their cars and stand guard with binoculars. Since then, he's
caught 11 newspaper thieves.

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"I'd rather die before being reduced to sleeping on the New York Post."

But Why?


Apparently the thieves aren't just really excited about the news;
they're looking for coupons. Johnson points the blame directly at
reality shows like TLC's Extreme Couponing, which follows a
bunch of people who manage to save hundreds of dollars a week by
obsessively snipping thousands of coupons out of newspapers in exchange
for having some kind of life. And the coupon thefts spike dramatically
whenever the show is on the air.

Also spiking dramatically -- therapist bills; TVs thrown out of windows; the downfall of society.

Johnson even once nabbed a guy who made such a living off stolen
coupons that he was driving a Cadillac Escalade from stand to stand,
ripping off coupons like they were stacks of free cash. Another alleged
coupon bandit, Sybil Hudson,
faces a $4,000 fine and up to a year in jail. But it's worth it,
because according to Hudson, couponing "saves millions of bucks." But
can't you take some of the cash you saved and just buy the damned
newspapers?

poptower

No, of course not, because then you wouldn't look as fucking crazy as these people.

#1. The Serial Pooper

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In September and October of 2011, students at Ft. King Middle School
were treated to a series of anonymous donations that appeared on their
doorsteps like tiny Christmas miracles. Unfortunately, the gifts were
fresh human turds.

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When the constipation fairy comes around, you'd be glad for such a gift.

After four separate incidents of human shit being dropped unsolicited
outside a classroom entrance, police set up a security camera to catch
the generous philanthropist in the act of sharing.


Now, clearly this is going to turn out to be a student, right? Some
angry kid mad at a teacher and playing a juvenile prank? Who else would
take the time to poop in a paper bag and transport it all the way to the
school, day after day?


But, no, the security footage they obtained led them to the arrest of 23-year-old Kenneth Martin Sorsony:

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Otherwise known as the dreaded Poofinger.

... who looks like he was doing a big poop while they were taking his mugshot.


But Why?


We would like to believe that it was all some kind of elaborate,
albeit obscure, political satire. Something so brilliant in its style
and execution that we mere peons can only speculate wildly about its
layers of meaning. But after seeing the mugshot, we have to conclude
that this is just a guy who really, really loves to poop.

SOURCE: cracked.com