15 Articles About Food That Will Help You Look and Feel Amazing!

If you want to improve your physique and improve your health, this is for you.

Do you want to be healthier and look better? Of course, you do!

It’s a stupid question, right?

For anyone wanting to learn more about achieving these goals, unfortunately, health and fitness are huge topics that cannot be given justice in a single article.

It takes years of learning to grasp the many elements of health, nutrition, fat loss and nutrition.

This article is a compilation of key learnings in these areas.

If you want to improve your physique and be healthier overall (they’re not always mutually inclusive), here are 15 articles that set you on the right path!

Building Muscle

Do you want a beach body, to “tone” or to be the biggest guy in the room? You’ll probably need to build some muscle mass.

We’ve come a long way since the “bro-science” of the past, and if you’re not using performance-enhancing drugs such as steroids or Sarms, you need to follow best practices.

15 high-protein foods

Two things are essential for building muscle. First, putting our muscles under stress and forcing them to adapt through resistance training; and second, protein.

Here are 15 high-protein foods that help build muscle.

Three unusual but tasty ways to eat egg whites

Eggs are both high in protein and have high-quality protein, making them dietary staples for anybody wanting to build muscle.

The egg yolk contains most of the fat content of eggs, so some people prefer to remove the yolk from some of their eggs.

Struggling for tasty ways to consume egg yolks, try these!

5 muscle-building foods for the pantry

We commonly hear about the muscle-building staples that belong in the fridge or freezer, such as meat or dairy…

But what about muscle-building foods that go in the pantry?

Five foods that will help you build muscle

And just remember, it’s not just protein that helps us build muscle — our body requires energy from carbohydrates and healthy fats.

There are also specific nutrients to help improve the quality of our workouts.

Weight Management

Do you want to lose body fat or keep your body fat low?

Having a diet abundant in low-calorie foods will help us to manage our energy intake. Eating low-calorie foods is important because our energy intake ultimately controls the amount of body fat we hold.

These articles will help you to better understand how to manage your weight.

Stop complicating fat loss!

Fat loss isn’t a complicated process — consume fewer daily calories than it takes to sustain your body weight, and your body will utilise its fat stores as energy. Simple.

However, many diets complicate the fat loss process, making people think they need to follow crazy routines and stop eating their favourite foods. It doesn’t have to be this way!

Fat loss isn’t complicated.

Avoid these six common fat-loss mistakes

With all the misinformation out there, it is easy to make mistakes when trying to lose body fat — that’s why so many people fail diets and so many people are overweight!

Here are some common fat loss mistakes people make with their diets that you should avoid.

Low-calorie foods that help lose fat

The types of food that we choose to eat dictate how many calories we consume each day.

That doesn’t mean that you can never eat another pizza — it just means we should be conscious about choosing food options most of the time that isn’t loaded with calories.

Here are 16 foods that will help you minimise calories and keep you more satiated.

The paradox of diets — ignoring the calories in healthy foods

As I’ve said, the total number of calories we eat controls our weight and how much body fat we hold.

Unfortunately, many diets ignore that and instead focus on banning certain foods and what we “can” eat.

Healthy foods are great for health — but unfortunately, some are calorie-dense, and people overeat them just like any calories.

Focusing on “healthy” foods should never be at the expense of ignoring calories.

Drinking diet soda to help lose fat

You’ve probably heard at some point over the years that artificial sweeteners are bad for us. The reality is, that they’re completely safe for consumption and calorie-free.

Therefore, they can help with sugar cravings without the added calories.

Research even suggests that consuming diet soda can help with the weight loss process.

Nutrition

For our general health, well-being, and performance, we must eat healthy, nutritious foods.

Scientists will disagree until the end of time about whether certain foods are “bad” for us, such as meat or carbohydrates.

The reality is, that every natural food has benefits due to the micronutrients they contain (vitamins, minerals, fibre, protein, and omega fatty acids).

Superfoods are bullshit. But Kiwis aren’t

Okay, the Kiwifruit isn’t the only real superfood.

There is no superfood. There are no magical foods that make calories redundant.

Some foods are higher in micronutrients than others, meaning they’re great for our overall health and can improve our performance such as mental clarity or exercise.

Plant protein quality can’t match meat

It’s no secret that the quality of protein in plants can’t match that of meat.

Therefore, it shouldn’t surprise you that “fake meat” products such as burgers don’t stack up nutritionally next to what they’re replacing.

Alcohol’s effect on fitness

This article is a bit of an outlier — alcohol is not a food obviously, but alcoholic beverages are a common component of many peoples’ “diets”. Can you call eating and drinking whatever you like a diet?

Anyway, alcohol definitely will not improve your gym performance. Plus, the added calories won’t do your physique any favours.

But is it possible to consume fitness and still achieve fitness or body goals?

Dieting

Diets are marketed to us everywhere we go.

Dieting is all over TV commercials and infomercials, in magazines, social media, website banners, on social media, and even in our DMs from friends and family network marketing.

It’s an industry driven by profit over results, which is a real fucking shame.

It’s easier to sell people a diet as a quick fix for their weight and health problems rather than teaching us habits that help manage our weight long-term.

And it’s a problem many people have.

Is sugar really that bad?

Sugar is demonised the world over as the worst possible thing that makes us all fat and unhealthy.

The stupid thing is, that fruit is full of sugar. But fruit is also full of nutrients.

So, should we avoid fruit?

Do we have to avoid sugar in general if we want to lose weight? I answer these questions and more.

Keto is stupid

Do you know that fruit is full of nutrients that our bodies need for general health and wellbeing, fruit also has sugar, which means keto avoids it.

If you eat one small banana, that is literally the only carbs you can have all day on keto… Yes, keto is stupid.

Yet, many experts tell us keto is the holy grail for health and fitness. Spoiler alert, it’s not.

Is breakfast the most important meal of the day?

Dieticians and breakfast cereal advertising often tell us that if we don’t eat breakfast, we’re doing ourselves a disservice. We’re more likely to overeat later in the day, we’ll lack energy and focus etc.

But do we really have to eat breakfast?

Or will it help us lose weight to skip it?

Final Words

In conclusion, I’ve just summarised fifteen articles to read if you want to lose fat, build muscle, and improve your health.

Unfortunately, the health and fitness industry is full of misinformation and bias.

For example, many YouTubers sell us views, Instagram influencers sell us product placements and advertising, and Doctors sell us pharmaceuticals.

The articles recommended here are informed by science and best practice to help you become the best version of yourself.

Thank you for reading.

If you enjoyed the content, you might be interested in this article about how I have gained over 40 pounds of muscle.

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