Whole Foods vs Shakes For Muscle Gain

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Whole Foods vs Shakes For Muscle Gain

Copyright 2006

After many years of spending hundreds, and even thousands,

of dollars, after getting sick on them, and after seeing NO

KIND OF RESULTS from them, many have finally realized that

they are WORTHLESS.

Yet, many are still confused if the supplements that are

sold as " Meal Replacements " , " Weight Gainers " , " natural

supplements " , and " amino acids " have some good use in

substituting for some WHOLE FOODS.

Surely you see them in just about every other page in

every-single bodybuilding / fitness magazine. Everyone at

the gym uses them.

Go to any grocery store and they have them there too. Yes,

even you have probably used them and / or are using them

right now.........

Shakes and supplements.

Many different " meal replacement " powders and shakes, also

known as RTD's, are sold as being a substitute for a real,

whole food meal.

The makers claim that they are " just as good, if not

better, than eating a real meal " .

They claim to have higher amounts of protein, lower amounts

of sugar, and add in ingredients such as BCAA's, Glutamine,

Creatine, HMB, CLA, so on and so forth.

They claim that your muscles need a high amount of this and

that, and that you can't get those from just eating the

right foods. .....

That's what the makers claim.

First off, no supplement that is out on the market right

now will build any kind of real, permanent muscle on your

body, none!

Not creatine (which makes you gain nothing but " water

weight " ), not glutamine, not HMB, not NO2, not any one of

them.

If you are skeptical, perform a test on yourself:

For one month, don't change anything about your training

routine or your eating habits.

Measure your arms, your chest, and your waist with a

measuring tape and fat calipers.

Take one supplement, and only one. Use it for that month.

Then take your measurements again.

I guarantee you that your measurements will reveal that

your arms or chest didn't get any bigger or vascular,

regardless of what the weight scale says.

Yes, some people report gaining 8-10 pounds of weight after

one week of using creatine, but are those 8-10 pounds

muscle? No!

They are made up of water and / or fat. The measuring tape

and fat calipers will reveal that to you.

So, when a meal replacement shake or powder advertises that

it is better than eating whole food because it contains all

of these extra " muscle building ingredients " , don't be

fooled.

Even if it actually contains those ingredients, they don't

work anyway!

Second, meal replacements claim to have a certain amount of

protein grams, carb grams, and fat grams.

Well, lately there have been several analysis done on many

popular supplements, and it has been discovered that many

of them do not contain the amount of ingredients as printed

on the label!!

Just a while back a report was written that a popular

" protein bar " , that claims to taste like Snickers,

contained up to 7% less amount of protein than the label

claims.

And it contained much more sugar than stated.

Many of these makers " skim " on the ingredients to bring the

cost down of making those supplements, while lying on the

nutrition labels, just to make a bigger profit!

Third, the price.

A meal replacement powder can cost you up to $3.00 PER

PACKET, while it would probably cost you $1.00 or less if

you were to eat the same amount of calories from real food.

I don't know about you, but I rather keep my money in my

pocket.

Fourth, and probably the most important out of all, is that

powders and shakes contain many ingredients that are

down-right harmful to your internal body.

In order to make these " meal replacements " into powders and

to be able to be stored for long periods of time (for

shipping and sitting on the store shelves), many chemicals

and preservatives must be added.

What do you think happens when you are constantly putting

into your body foreign chemicals and preservatives,

substances that are not from nature.

Your body does not handle well those types of unnatural

substances.

Instead of making you gain muscle, all you will get is a

BLOATED STOMACH, DIARRHEA, and EVEN FAT, since your body

doesn't digest it well.

How many times have you drunk a protein shake and 30

minutes later you start to get " gas " ?

That's your body's way of telling you that it cannot handle

that shake.

Also, " meal replacements " DON'T contain vital nutrients

that are a " must-have " if you want to grow a healthy

physique, such as vitamins, minerals, anti-oxidants,

enzymes, etc.

These powders don't have any of those things.

Don't believe me, read the nutrition labels.

On the contrary, whole foods are natural, they contain all

of the vital nutrients that your body requires to get big

and strong, they are much less in price, and they won't

cause you to go running to the nearest toilet.

Without a doubt, if you want to gain muscular weight,

forget about those disgusting-tasting meal replacement

powders and shakes, and eat real whole foods, just like our

ancestors did back before the supplement industry came

along with all of their lies.

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