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News:
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Welcome to the *NEW* Newsletter!
Articles:
1)
Olive Oil: Cheap, Tasty, and a Great Fat Burner!
2)
A Winner! Will Brink's Diet Supplements Revealed!
Featured
Resource:
1)
FitnessIndustryEducation.com
News:
1)
New HTML-Formatted Newsletter!
Ultimatefatburner's
Fat-Bustin' e-Zine has received a complete face lift... as
I'm sure you've noticed! I have to tell you... I'm pretty
excited about our brand new look!
The
change was spurred on by a couple of things...
First,
as I was going through Ultimatefaturner's back issues, I realized
that some of the longer issues were a bit tedious to read
in the plain text version. This new HTML-formatted newsletter
is cleaner, clearer, more attractive, and a heck of a lot
easier to get through.
That's
a big plus.
Second,
I needed a powerful, flexible tool to deliver a customized
HTML formatted email at a relatively low-cost. I found that
tool in a service called ProAutoresponder.
Without a doubt, it's one of the most feature rich, comprehensive
and downright cheap email services I've ever encountered.
If you publish an online e-zine or newsletter, you owe it
to yourself to have a look.
One
last thing before we get down to business... I've tested this
service on several different platforms and all seemed to work
well (it also sends out a text version if your browser doesn't
"read" HTML). If *YOU* have problems reading/viewing
this email, or any of its internal links, please, please,
please use the contact link at the end of this email and let
me know what service you are using, what email program, what
version, and so on.
Articles:
1)
Olive Oil: Cheap, Tasty, and a Great Fat Burner!
Olive
oil is a great source of unrefined, monounsaturated fat. It's
used extensively in the Mediterranean where the general good
health of the population has provided the impetus for popular
books such as "The Mediterranean Diet", by Marissa
Cloutier and Eve Adamson, "The Omega Diet" by Artemis
P. Simopoulos and Jo Robinson and "Olive Oil Cookery:
The Mediterranean Diet" by Maher A. Abbas, to name but
a few.
Many
experts attribute a large part of the success of the Mediterranean
diet directly to its high olive oil content. A most recent
study performed on rats shows that olive oil can increase
the activity of certain chemicals called "uncoupling
proteins". These chemicals effectively "tell"
the body to burn excess calories (through the release of heat),
rather than store it.
(Source:
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 75:213-220, 2002).
(This by the way, is only one of the many studies demonstrating
olive oil's benefits -- its been shown to help promote healthy
blood lipid levels, promote healthy (HDL) cholesterol, enhance
fat burning as well as possessing anti-inflammatory characteristics!
Wow!).
All complicated science aside, let me tell you this...
I've
supplemented with Udo's Ultimate Oil and flax seed oil for
several years now, and although I've been cooking with olive
oil since I did some research on store brand vegetable oils
and trans fatty acids, I've never made a conscious effort
to get a significant amount of it into my diet...
Until
this summer.
For
the last 10 weeks or so, I've been getting 2-1/2 tablespoons
of olive oil into my diet daily. Although I prefer to take
flax seed and Udo's Ultimate Oil directly, olive oil has a
much more distinct flavor (extra virgin is the mildest of
the olive oils) which makes it more suitable for use on salads
and so on.
I've
been mixing olive oil and balsamic (red wine) vinegar in a
1:1 ratio (2 tablespoons olive oil and two tablespoons balsamic
vinegar), and mixing it over a salad of mixed veggies and
1 4-ounce chicken breast for the last couple of months.
And
the results?
My
Accumeasure
Fat Track II bodyfat caliper reports bodyfat levels have
now crossed into the single digit category (if you don't have
one of these bodyfat calipers, I recommend you
pick one up!).
And
while olive oil has only played one part of my entire fat-blastin'
strategy this summer, I can guarantee it has DEFINITELY contributed
to a couple of the belt-tightenings I've enjoyed lately.
This
stuff works! I recommend you start supplementing today!
Articles:
2)
A Winner! Will Brink's Diet Supplements Revealed!
Last
issue I told you that I'd just received and done a preliminary
review of Will Brink's Diet Supplements Revealed. Since that
time, I've had a chance to spend some good solid hours with
Will's publication, and let me tell you, it's an impressive
one indeed!
Highly
recommended for anyone who wants to cut through the marketing
hype and get right to the bottom line on supplements... which
ones REALLY work, and which ones don't.
You
can read my full review of Will's Diet Supplements Revealed
by clicking
here!
Or,
if you'd prefer to visit Will's site directly, please...
Click
here!
Featured
Resource:
1)
Fitness Industry Education
Fitness
Industry Education is a great resource site for fitness
professionals, or anyone interested in becoming a fitness
professional. They do courses for fitness instructors, personal
trainers, plus step and circuit instructors. Director Michael
Betts tells me most of the theory component of the courses
are completed over the Internet, and the practical side
of things through a work experience program.
Well
worth a visit.
Click
here to visit Fitness Industry Education!
