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Unlike the high carb diet that can work against the body-s system of growth producing hormones, the Anabolic Diet maximizes the production and utilization of the Big 3 growth producers - testosterone, growth hormone and insulin - and does it naturally. It also shifts the body-s metabolism from that of a sugar burning, fat producing machine to that of a fat burning machine. With the body packing on extra muscle and simultaneously burning both dietary and stored body fat, the bodybuilder finds himself twice blessed. The Anabolic Diet stresses a high fat/high protein/low carbohydrate approach to nutrition. INTRODUCTION 3 Many in the general public will dismiss it out of hand, citing the popular beliefs that fat is a prime component in heart disease, cancer and obesity. Likewise, many bodybuilders have come to assume that dietary fat smooths the bodybuilder out and blurs definition. But they couldn-t be more wrong. Dietary fat, when utilized properly as in the Anabolic Diet, can be the key to growth and success. And while some will see the Anabolic Diet as a new, revolutionary, even dangerous approach to nutrition, its basics actually originated with the dawning of mankind.
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THE ANABOLIC DIET by Dr. Mauro Di Pasquale ©1995 Optimum Training Systems TABLE OF CONTENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 INTRODUCTION DIETARY FAT IS NOT THE ENEMY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 The Myth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 The Anabolic Diet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 The Primitive Diet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 The Establishment Won’t Like The Anabolic Diet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 The Modern Bodybuilder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Anabolic Steroids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 CHAPTER 1 BENEFITS OF THE ANABOLIC DIET — MORE MUSCLE, LESS BODYFAT, AND IT’S ALL NATURAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Physical Benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 The Metabolic Advantage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Protecting Protein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Fat Is Not The Enemy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 The Psychological Edge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 CHAPTER 2 HISTORY OF BODYBUILDING DIETS — CARBOHYDRATES AND THE BODYBUILDER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 The American Diet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Cancer And Diet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 The Bloating Of America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 The Popular Bodybuilding Diet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Problems With Bulking Up/Cutting Down On Other Diets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Would You Rather Burn Muscle Or Fat? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Strength Level And Motivation Decreases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Protein Levels Drop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .