Body Composition and Optimal Health

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Why am I still fat?  How can I get more muscles?  What’s more important diet or exercise?  What are the best foods?  What are the best exercises? We get these questions all the time.  Here’s some food for thought: Diet is probably 90%+ of body composition and looking fit.  You need to adjust your diet [...]

Leafy Greens and Non-Starchy Vegetables

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Less than 25% of American adults eat 3 or more servings of vegetables a day.  Eating a variety of leafy greens and non-starchy vegetables is an important part of the TurboCharged program for optimal health.  Large amounts of fresh, high-quality vegetables every day are needed to obtain the optimal amounts of vitamins, minerals and phyto-compounds [...]

Macadamia Nut Oil

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Most of you have heard of Dr. Fred Pescatore.  Yes, he wrote the foreword to TurboCharged.  However, he is also a best-selling author, M.D. and has been helping people get healthy for many years.  Although we do not recommend added oils or fats, especially when you are still working losing your excess body fat, macadamia [...]

Calorie Intake Down But Obesity Still Rising?

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In March 2013, Reuters Health reported on a study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, based on the nine National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES) the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has conducted between 1971 and 2010.  Several thousand adults aged 20 to 74 were randomly selected every two to [...]

Everything in Moderation? Not True Based on New Studies

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“Everything in moderation” is a commonly used directive for life.  In TurboCharged we state that this approach can become an excuse to eat anything you want.  If you believe that a little of anything is OK, you may want to re-evaluate your thinking.  Based on some new studies, even small amounts of a “food”, like [...]