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One of The Best Foods For Building Muscle
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Friday, November 17, 2006 3:35 PM
One of The Best Foods For Building Muscle If you have been trying to build muscle mass, then you know the importance of nutrition as a component in your muscle growth goals. Many bodybuilders; when I use the term bodybuilder I use it in the truest sense of the word, “someone that is building his or her body”, know of the importance of tuna fish in their diet. Recently, the news came out regarding the muscle building benefits of omega-3 fatty acids i.e. enhanced fat loss, muscle growth and joint recovery. Suddenly salmon, the fish with the richest source of omega-3 fatty acids was nudging out Charlie the tuna for leadership. If you were to choose one fish which would it be? Aside from personal taste preference. Here’s the facts: Per 3 ounce can of light tuna has fewer calories, less total fat and more protein than fresh salmon. It’s also a little richer in critical amino acids, like BCCAs, arginine, and glutamine. Fresh salmon however is much richer in omega-3 fatty acids, more than 7 times the amount of tuna! Fresh salmon also contains more than twice the vitamin b6 and slightly more vitamin b12. Each fish is definitely loaded with nutritional benefits. So the question now becomes not WHICH fish to eat but WHEN! For Meals before and after a workout the best choice is tuna. Why?? Greater protein content Lower fat levels insure delivery of critical amino acids Eating salmon around workout time is a bad idea. The healthy fats slow down the digestion process of the salmos proteins. Still I like to get in 2 to 3 meals a week; on rest days, of salmon. Or at worst eat my salmon meal but, not work out till 4 hours later There has bee some recent studies as to the benefits of omega-3 fatty acids in the area of increasing male libido. Click here for a free report on how to build muscle fast
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RE: One of The Best Foods For Building Muscle
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Wednesday, December 13, 2006 11:34 PM
just remember not to go overboard on fish, the mercury can mess you up (potentially).
let's break out the shotguns we're going to town, this quote from our weapons "this fight is more important than your life" Hell is empty, the devils are here 6'2" 213 365 deadlift 265 bench what a choir boy
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RE: One of The Best Foods For Building Muscle
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Monday, December 18, 2006 7:12 AM
There are two drawbacks to eating fish.
1. Its expensive
2. Not everyones likes the taste (personally I don't)
3. If you eat too much tuna, you can get mercury poisoning.
I'm not saying that eating fish is bad, its probably one of the best protein to fat ratios you can get of any kind of food!
On a side note, whole eggs also have omega 3 fatty acids.
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RE: One of The Best Foods For Building Muscle
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Wednesday, January 03, 2007 4:48 AM
ORIGINAL: gunshowkeough
There are two drawbacks to eating fish.
1. Its expensive
2. Not everyones likes the taste (personally I don't)
3. If you eat too much tuna, you can get mercury poisoning.
I'm not saying that eating fish is bad, its probably one of the best protein to fat ratios you can get of any kind of food!
On a side note, whole eggs also have omega 3 fatty acids.
Tuna is cheap as hell. 40g of protein per for 50 cents is expensive? :S
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RE: One of The Best Foods For Building Muscle
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Tuesday, January 09, 2007 5:29 AM
50 cents would be tuna on special :p
There's another thread about tuna and mercury poisoning.
Someone calculated that 17.3 cans of tuna per week would add up to the body's limit of mercury.
So basically if you have more than 17.3 cans of tuna per week, then the mercury would start to take effect.
I don't think I have more than 6 cans of tuna per week. lol
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RE: One of The Best Foods For Building Muscle
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Monday, February 05, 2007 1:05 AM
ORIGINAL: Wyrms
50 cents would be tuna on special :p
There's another thread about tuna and mercury poisoning.
Someone calculated that 17.3 cans of tuna per week would add up to the body's limit of mercury.
So basically if you have more than 17.3 cans of tuna per week, then the mercury would start to take effect.
I don't think I have more than 6 cans of tuna per week. lol
How in the world could someone possibly eat that much tuna? The most I EVER have is 8 cans, that's when cutting. Preparation kinda bugs me (I need low-fat mayonaise or else I gag when used on a sandwich) but that's just wow :|
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RE: One of The Best Foods For Building Muscle
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Thursday, July 12, 2007 7:29 PM
Lots of false statements that will guide people on wrong paths in this article.
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