5 Awesome Muscle Meals

It's simple. If you want to build your best body, you must eat. Eat with purpose. Eat with intelligence. Eat with the knowledge that food is the secret ingredient to total body transformation (not just "weight loss"). Men's Health's 101 Muscle Meals is designed to help you unlock this power—it's an authoritative guide on what to eat, when to eat, and how your overall health will be better for it. 

These five muscle-building recipes were designed to fit easily into your schedule. You can also adapt them to fit your own needs and preferences. Cook them today, and in no time, you'll be on your way to your leanest, most powerful body ever.

The Habit That Ages You 6 Years

Hit the bottle too hard before you're over the hill and your memory may pay the price: Knocking back more than two drinks a night for 10 years in your middle ages can speed memory loss by up to six years, reports a new study inNeurology.

Coffee Addict !

Sources by huffingtonpost

When it comes to drinking coffee there is no middle ground. You aren't just kind of a coffee drinker. You either are or you aren't. And if you are, chances are you're pretty intense about it. Because it's really easy to go from drinking your first cup of coffeeever to not being able to function at all without one. From there, it's only a matter of time till you experience the most intense skull-splitting headache of your life if you should suddenly decide to forego a cup one morning.

Coffee's like that. Once it gets into your life, it completely takes over. We could blame the caffeine, but it isn't just that. For true coffee fiends, it is and always will be about the coffee. Whether it's iced, gourmet, or just black; pour over, percolated or French press, it doesn't matter. It's coffee, and that's good enough for us. If any of this is ringing true to you, chances are that your relationship with coffee runs deep. Read on and find out just how deep.

Genius-Shabana

I dont need to talk about ur squash, everyone knows ur a genius!

I will just talk about our looong journey that started 25 years ago, from the time we were neighbours living in the best place in the world called Maadi!

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When we used to take our motorcycle to the club.

We trained together, traveled the world together, competed against each other, gave advice to each other,shared the best moments in our life when we won the world open for our country, we were no 1 and 2 in the world and we were still training together. We played some brutal matches against each other.

U keep my secrets and i keep yours.

Sportsmanship at its best and as it should be!!

(Karim Darwish, on his Facebook Page, 30th Jan 2014)

TANGLIN CLUB 15th JUMBO 2014

Closing Date: 7 Feb 2013

Entry Form: Click HERE

For more information, please call 6622 0588 

or email: jumbodoubles@tanglin-club.org.sg

Drying Session indeed

"7/1/2014 Tuesday, The squash courts will need many hours of drying.I just hope they will not warp.
As seen, the floor could be in at least 2 inch of water National players will have to hunt for a new training ground. "
National Squash Centre, Bukit Jalil, Malaysia.
Photo credit : Chan Kin Sam
Sources by: Edward Chan

MANSONRY CLOSED 2014

Entry Form: Click HERE
For enquiries, please contact:
Phone : 6345-5675 (SSRA Office)
E-mail : jonathanlee@ssra.org.sg; ssra@ssra.org.sg

"Health" Food Imposters

Adapted from the 8-Hour Diet, now available in paperback

Diets often focus on taking stuff off your plate, but that's how you lose out on great flavors, great nutritional benefits, and great weight loss. The problem is, many superfoods often have evil twins—unhealthy foods we like to call "health" food imposters. Look out for these imposters, ones that often sit right beside the healthy version on store shelves!

What’s In Your Green Tea?

Green tea, the perfect health elixir. Could there be a more perfect beverage to help your body? Research has linked its potent antioxidant, epigallocatechin gallate aka EGCG, to body benefits such as reduced risk of stroke, heart disease, cancer and diabetes, and weight loss—all when paired with a healthy lifestyle. But you may look at your choice of green tea differently after hearing the results of an independent lab’s tests of green tea products.

ConsumerLab.com closely examined green tea products and found that some bottle varieties are just a little more than flavored water and the leaves may be contaminated with lead. The lab tests focused on whether the labeled amounts reflected the amounts actually in the teas, and whether there were contaminants in the tea; the amount of caffeine was also examined.

Pass on the Bottled Tea

None of the four green teas selected by ConsumerLab listed the amount of EGCG and it is a good thing because the antioxidant is lacking in these products. The only brand to list an amount, Honest Tea Green Tea with Honey, only contain 62.7% of the 190mg of catechins the 16.9-oz bottle touted. It was the second highest amount with 27.2  of EGCG per 8 oz of the four bottled green teas tested. Harney & Sons Organic Green had the most—46.8 mg and Diet Snapple Green Tea had the least amount—3.5 mg. All of the bottled teas contained some type of sweetener.

The Hidden Benefit of Regular Exercise

Here’s another plus of breaking a regular sweat: Working out makes your brain desire fatty, high-calorie foods even less, reports new research from Harvard Medical School.

Researchers found that compared to people who never exercised, regular gym rats had less reaction to high-calorie meals in brain regions connected with food rewards. People who worked out also rated these foods lower on a desirability scale—particularly ones with savory flavors like cheeseburgers and fries. 

It’s a double-dose: With regular exercise, you burn calories andchange the way your brain reacts to certain foods, says study author William Killgore, Ph.D. It could be that exercise enhances sensitivity to leptin—a protein in fat cells that controls appetite and sends signals to your brain to tell you when you’re full. Or it could be that because you often feel better after a workout, exercise acts as its own mental reward making you less likely to need a high-calorie snack to munch on and lift your mood, says Killgore. 

It’s not too hard to stimulate this brain benefit. Exercisers in the study sweated it out three days a week for about 40 minutes on average.