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Nutrition Coach Reveals The Misleading Ways Protein Snacks Mask Their Effectiveness

If you’ve ever set foot in a gym then you probably know the broad appeal of the humble protein hit. From protein laden drinks to snacks and everything in between, the ‘p-word’ often runs rampant in today’s health food circles and one nutrition coach wants you to know the truth about it before wasting your money.

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Graeme Tomlinson, better known on Instagram as The Fitness Chef, recently shared a post which analysed the nutritional and monetary value of today’s most popular ‘protein’ based products.

In the post he explained that there’s a general perception that diets relatively high in protein are widely advantageous across an array of health and fitness goals. He went on to explain how fat loss can be supported by the elevated levels of satiety achieved from sufficient protein consumption. The benefits also extended into muscle gain through optimal protein synthesis, a process which supports the general well-being and repairing of tissues. Nothing most people don’t already have a slight clue about.

The issue, according to Tomlinson, arises when companies begin to spruik ‘protein’ versions of their existing products in order to capture a growing market driven by body physique.

“If one is on a journey of health and fitness improvement, protein consumption will likely be encouraged for the reasons mentioned above. But just because the word ‘PROTEIN’ is presented in large font, it does not necessarily make it a justifiable choice,” says Tomlinson.

“We are better placed to evaluate actual protein amounts per additional variables. Namely, calories, sugar and price.”

Tomlinson breaks down the figures further by addressing his graphic above. A typical protein drink that contains 30g of protein also comes with 125g of sugar and over 800 calories. On the other hand, consuming the Special K protein bar will only yield an insignificant 4g of protein – an amount that could easily be obtained from much more cost-effective foods.

“These items may incrementally accumulate towards overall protein intake, but doing so will be expensive and may compromise other macronutrient intakes. We need to look beyond marketing.”

As a comparison Tomlinson pitched a glass of skim milk against a berry protein drink in the same quantity. The glass of milk contained more protein, less sugar and less calories than the berry protein drink and costs a fraction of it. The moral of Tomlinson’s comparison?

“Protein is essential. But sourcing it from pathetic portions designed by brands who’s aim is to cash in on a hugely beneficial macronutrients may not be the best idea. Sometimes it’s better to consider the protein sources that don’t grab the exaggerated headlines.”

And what would be some of the best natural protein snacks? We’ve got the protein guide for you right here.

What to look for with cheap sneakers for men:

Genuine leather uppers – cheap sneakers won’t have an upper made of the finest leather, but some are made with lower-grades of real leather which is still durable and comfortable, and is much better quality than a fake plastic ‘leather’ upper.
Canvas uppers – some sneakers use canvas rather than leather, which makes the shoe cheaper to produce, meaning the savings will be passed along to the consumer. However, canvas isn’t necessarily ‘worse’ than leather, in fact, it’s a great alternative. Camvas is a rather durable and sturdy material, and any sneaker made with it will last a long time.
A direct to consumer brand – some brands have a ‘direct to consumer’ model. This simply means the brand manufactures its sneakers themselves and then sells them directly to consumers. This business model cuts out the middleman and allows brands to sell their products, some of which can be the highest of quality, at a much cheaper price.
A brand that isn’t as well known – sometimes you don’t pay for quality, you pay for the name. Big, well-known brands are usually more expensive simply because there’s so much hype for their products that people are willing to pay more. If you’re looking for a cheap sneaker that’s still good quality, consider purchasing from a lesser-known brand as they’ll have good quality shoes without the markup price.

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If you’re looking for a pair of sneakers that are good quality but affordable, you’ve come to the right place. These are the best cheap sneakers for men available that are stylish and well-made despite being so lowly priced.

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Floral Champagne

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Pair it with: apperitives and/or delicate starters, like clams in a white wine and parsley sauce.

Blanc de Blanc Champagne

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Pair it with: if you want to be conventional — white fish. However, if you’ve a little verve about you; feel free to make like Chef Andy, and “play with the opposite.”

What’s this mean?

“When the dish shows earthiness the bright blanc de blanc brings to life those elements — lifting the aroma and flavour.”

For the brave, pair your blanc de blanc with mushroom risotto and/or smoked eel nigiri.

Blanc de Noirs Champagne

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This one has a broad spectrum — but likes to be paired with dishes with a touch of acid (think: foods with a nutty, brioche element). The character of Blanc the Noirs, Andy says, can also balance the acidity of Ceviche, as well as cut through rich — or even fatty — foods like sausages with caramelised onions.

Brut Champagne

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“Fresh and bright — yet creamy — champagne like Brut can have a diversity of use, from aperitif to main,” Andy says.

One example of a tongue-swooning pairing, he says, is Brut with a high-quality Spanish Jamon (ideally Iberico, which is 100% acorn-fed pork).

“Rich elements go with the creaminess of a brut style,” Andy says, adding that the ‘sweet’ notes of a high quality Jamon “merge with the Brut style, with a nice and clean finish due to the natural freshness of the champagne and CO2 component, which leads you to a clean palate ready for the next bite.”

Dosage Champagne

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To be paired with: desserts, (try an apple or pear tarte tatin).

What are the most unusual foods that can actually go with Champagne?

“Artichoke and asparagus are hard to match with ‘regular’ still wine — but can be paired (beautifully) with champagne.”

What’s the main difference between a cheap Aldi ‘champagne’ and a more premium offering like Perrier Jouet’s?

Perriet Jouët is far more delicate yet voluptuous than an Aldi champagne — and beats it on precision and finesse too.

Use Compound Lifts To Your Advantage

If you want to do exercises that are good for your fitness, Scott says, “In terms of gym, compound movements like the bench press, deadlifts, squats and chin-ups” are a great way for the average guy to progress — all the while setting small goals and working hard.

“You might benchpress four sets of six at eighty kilos, then the next week you might do a little bit more.”

Don’t Just Wing It

“Get a gym plan,” Scott told us, and actually use it.

“A bit of structure will help you achieve your goals a lot quicker than if you’re just rocking up and winging it.”

This means if you like training on your own; a personal trainer (or a couple of personal training sessions) could be on the cards, while if you are a bit more socially motivated, a group fitness class could be a great idea.

Be Realistic

Let’s be real: not every day is going to be your best session in the gym (and every now and then your deep-fried Mars Bar cravings will get the better of you). This is why, Scott told us, success is all about consistency — and not giving up just because you made a small variation from your plan.

“Stick to what you’re trying to do for a long period of time and you’ll see results.”

In other words: “a lot of people want to see results after two weeks (but they don’t realise) getting those little gains is more important.”

Push Yourself In Those 1% Moments

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Struggling on the last rep of the last set? As long as you are just tired, as opposed to on the brink of injury, “Just keep pushing yourself and keep your goal in mind.”

Eat Like A Pro

“The gym work is only half the battle,” Scott told us, explaining how being able to control what you put on your plate is “one of the biggest pieces of the muscle gain process that people overlook.”

Break Your Nutrition Plan Down Into Mini Goals

“If I’m trying to put on weight — small little goals have helped me achieve it. Instead of trying to put 4kg on in a week and feeling sick from eating so much food, I’ll try and do it in six weeks.” So it’s not just workouts where you need to continually set new goals — it’s your nutrition too.

Keep Some Variety In Your Diet

Sick of chicken salad? If you’re keen to mix it up, Scott says some of his personal favourites are fresh (or canned) tuna in a salad or a nice fillet of salmon (high in good fats and protein). Or, if you’re vegetarian there’s always tempeh.

Don’t Get Evangelical About Junk Food

Particularly for the general public, Scott says restricting alcohol and snacks from your diet can actually have a worse effect than if you occasionally (and sensibly) indulge.

“If you restrict yourself completely there will likely be a tipping point where you can’t do it anymore — and it will all come crashing down.”

So to avoid being four weeks into his program and smashing 10 beers or a bottle of wine, Scott says he’s pretty balanced through the preseason — and allows himself the occasional vice.

“If I’ve played on a Friday and I feel like a glass or two of red on Sunday I’ll have it. It’s all about balance.”

“It’s really easy to maintain,” he told us, “And I don’t get caught in that starvation mode.”

“Don’t restrict yourself from anything but also don’t go silly when you do have something that’s not great for you; that’s the key to longevity in the health and fitness space.”

Don’t Get Stuck In A ‘Prehab’ Mindset

While stretching, recovering and maintaining your body is a crucial element of every fitness routine, one of the biggest mistakes men in their 30s make is falling into the trap of just keeping themselves where they are already at rather than pushing for more.

Instead, you should continually aim to improve yourself — whether by training with mates or keeping yourself accountable to new goals.

“I’ve always found that ability to continually try and push myself. In the gym I did a few PB’s this year by identifying a few week spots,” Scott told us.

“For me bench press – doing an extra session for me above what the team does (helped me achieve that goal).”

“I could never get much better at bench no matter how much I did. But this year through time, effort, extra training sessions and new training partners I made it competitive, fun, hard work and without even knowing it I broke the plateau.”

“Took me 13 years but finally got there.”

While prehab is important, Scott told us this kind of breakthrough would never would have happened had he only been focussed on ‘prehab’.

“It’s important you push yourself too — not just about maintenance.”

The conclusion? It’s always possible to keep improving — whether you’re in your 30s or your 50s — you just need to find the right mindset.

“We Talk About How We Need To Get Some Women Around”

If the group of men in question are heterosexual and single, this is a common topic of conversation. Not groundbreaking, sure, but accurate.

“Motorcycles”

Every man knows you need to either be into bikes or cars, or endure any number of long and boring conversations throughout your life.

“Stuff”

Shoot the shit. Play the breeze. Talk about what’s in front of you and what’s on your mind. Really, when it comes down to it there is no great conspiracy that dictates what groups of men talk about must be that different to what groups of women talk about when they get together. And, as always, any conversation will be more dictated by the interests and personalities of the people present more so than their gender.

“How good we would look in high heels”

After the tequila comes out, anything is fair game.

“Sports and children”

Particularly for the married (or child-having) men of Reddit, sports and children tend to take up more airtime than they perhaps should do.

“Feelings”

Believe it or not — men have feelings too. And while it is taking a while for this to be seen as a positive (rather than something to be repressed), it’s happening more and more — and we applaud that.

“Awesomely bad movies”

As The Ringer points out, “The line between so-bad-it’s-good and so-bad-I-left-the-theater is quite thin; taste is subjective, and what one person finds to be amusingly bad others may consider plain bad.” Which means this is a topic of discussion that can rear its head sporadically until last drinks.

“The whole entire range of things we talk about otherwise”

Again: the idea that what men talk about when left to their own devices is radically different to what they talk about in any other situation, was called into question, with the consensus suggesting men are more likely to act slightly more immature in front of their mates, but not totally different.

The takeaway? When women like Katsoulis ask why men don’t feel the need to confide secrets or share emotions with each other as much as women do with their friends, what is the answer?

The following interaction may shed some light.

“Time and again, women report asking their husbands: ‘So, what did you talk about?’ after they return from a night out with friends,” says Katsoulis. “Friends who, presumably, are all in the throes of various romantic dramas, health crises and existential wobbles. You know the answer: ‘nothing’. If pushed, they might say ‘stuff’,” (SMH).

In other words: “Husbands really do not reveal intimate secrets to their mates at great length over their craft beers and technical coffees,” Katsoulis says, “Because instead of making them close and conspiratorial, they worry it could make things awkward,” (SMH).

“‘I wouldn’t want to burden them with my problems,’ one friend said – before telling me how grateful he is to have his wife to unburden himself on.”

This is a problem doctors and psychologists worldwide are trying to work on because the more people an individual feels comfortable opening up to, typically, the less lonely they will feel — something which can significantly help you reduce your chance of developing depression (and increase your ability to cope with it if it happens anyway).

As Barry Du Bois told us in a recent interview, this can prove crucial.

“My mate taking responsibility to ask that question (r u ok?) is what got me through that tough time.”

So next time you’re at the pub, feel free to delve into uncharted territory — or if that’s what you already do — don’t feel embarrassed to do so.

Quick Facts About The Lamborghini Urus

Official D’Marge Head Turn Rating: 9 out of 10Model: Lamborghini Urus0-100: 3.4 secondsTransmission: 8 Speed autoAU RRP: $390,000

1. It’s A German supermodel disguised in Italian threads

In non-car-design vernacular, it’s a bratwurst posing as a porchetta. Meeting the Urus for the first time, there is no doubt you’re looking at a Lamborghini. While it has more doors and seats, the front and rear of the Urus carry design traits seen in their two door supercars. The headlamps, grill and boot have design cues that even without a badge would tell you this came from the stables of Lamborghini.

2. Italian mother, German father. Inside the Urus is a hybrid “bitsa”

Stepping inside and you could be forgiven for thinking there was a large influence from Audi, and you’d be right. Most of the entertainment system, indicator arms, even power window switches appear lifted from Audi. While Audi make wonderful interiors and we welcome this, does it make the Urus less of a Lamborghini and more a dolled up Q7?

3. Despite being the most overweight Lamborghini, it’ll still turn heads

Driving the Urus on a multilane highway you’ll see more iPhones pointing at you than a B grade celebrity. Whether it was the passengers in the car behind us or the tradies pressing their faces against windows in the next lane, the Urus was a real head turner. Whether or not this is your thing, it’s certainly a Urus thing.

4. Deep down, this is a fighter jet dressed as an A380

Firing up the Urus after flicking the jet fighter switch will awaken a twin-turbo V8. It shook the wine glasses in our kitchen and told the neighbours we were (temporarily) a cool family. While the Urus has a series of modes and even further controls to tweak suspension, steering and response, we did appreciate the noise difference between Strada and Corsa. In Strada, the Urus could purr along quietly and even shut off four of its cylinders in highway driving. But in Corsa, you heard and felt the heart of a true Lamborghini, and boy does its performance deliver.

5. It’s how fast now? Bloody fast

The Urus will take you from standstill to 100km/h in 3.4 seconds, the fastest SUV on the planet. It’ll make you giggle like a child at how impressive this feels from a vehicle that seats five in comfort.

6. What they don’t see, they’ll hear…

For the unsuspecting or from a distance, there is a good chance the Urus will be heard before it is seen. It is virtually impossible to lie to the missus about what time you got home because it didn’t just wake her up, it woke up the kids, too. Sure you could put the Urus in Strada to quieten the exhaust a little…but let’s be honest, you like it loud.

7. Stepping into the Urus is like checking into a day spa for influencers

The confusing part about driving a supercar is that it normally isn’t the most comfortable of experiences. With the Urus there is an exception as this fire breathing bull has well upholstered seats with heating and cooling modes, but also a menu of various massages for the driver and passenger. It doesn’t just work at a standstill either, wherever you were driving, the seats could continue to give you a rub up and down your back that would keep you in the car long after you arrive at your destination.

8. The Urus can really sing…from the engine or the speakers

While we adore the sounds of a twin turbo V8 singing, the interior of this Lamborghini is also fitted with a Bang & Olufsen stereo with 3D surround sound. The front tweeters rise from the dash when you start the car in the same way a conductor steps up to the orchestra. With 1700 watts of power pumping through a total of 21 speakers, you’ll have Pavarotti in the passenger seat – or at least it will feel that way.

9. If you’ve got kids, the Urus provides free day care

When couples progress to have a family, the routine is to buy an SUV and ditch the beloved coupe. If money is not a concern then the Urus might be the best of both worlds. Plenty of fun to drive but also a capable family car. The backseat seats three adults with ample leg room but also has ISOfix attachments for a baby seat.

10. The Urus has ample room to boot

The boot is large enough for two large bags or a pram and barbecue. It was even a great match to our Bunnings haul with the rear seats down but we do suggest you add boot lining to avoid scuff marks. Sizeable IKEA flatpacks? Also a non-issue unless you’re buying a queen-sized bed or piano. With 12v connections in the back and at the front, the whole family could keep their mobile devices charged and entertained. This gave us enough time for a sneaky sausage sizzle at Bunnings but a word of warning: greasy fingers laced with BBQ sauce does not go well with Italian leather and flick switches.

11. This bull is surprisingly easier for the kids than the adults

As SUV doors would be opened by kids and adults, we were forced to accept the boring door handles that a normal Lamborghini would not have. These look lifted straight off an Audi A3 and will please 12-year-old Jimmy as he jumps in the back, but it won’t look as sleek as it could have.When it comes to family vehicles though, they’re generally “user friendly” and uncomplicated. Managing the automatic gearbox just to get moving was an unnecessary hassle. Engaging reverse is a large padded lever, moving into Drive required a flick of the steering wheel paddles and then Park was a dedicated button. This could be a lot simpler, and just created a level of confusion that is acceptable in a Lamborghini…but not a family SUV.

12. A wolf in sheep’s clothing or just plain confusing…

Lamborghini has done a wonderful job of mixing their supercar prowess with what is really a German SUV. It has lost a lot of its Italian flair along the way but at the heart still beats that of a raging Taurus. With the consolidation of car brands under large umbrellas it had to be expected that Lamborghini would look at the parts of other brands to produce the Urus.It is in some ways unfortunate how much is lost by doing so, but also makes such practical sense that it is easy to swallow. For many, the price may be the biggest draw back as it can surpass that of a two door sportier Lamborghini. The way we see it, if you already own a Huracan, then the Urus is the best second Lamborghini you could buy.

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Don’t Just Wing It

Be Realistic

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“Motorcycles”

“Stuff”

“How good we would look in high heels”

“Sports and children”

“Feelings”

“Awesomely bad movies”

“The whole entire range of things we talk about otherwise”

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Quick Facts About The Lamborghini Urus

1. It’s A German supermodel disguised in Italian threads

2. Italian mother, German father. Inside the Urus is a hybrid “bitsa”

3. Despite being the most overweight Lamborghini, it’ll still turn heads

4. Deep down, this is a fighter jet dressed as an A380

5. It’s how fast now? Bloody fast

6. What they don’t see, they’ll hear…

7. Stepping into the Urus is like checking into a day spa for influencers

8. The Urus can really sing…from the engine or the speakers

9. If you’ve got kids, the Urus provides free day care

10. The Urus has ample room to boot

11. This bull is surprisingly easier for the kids than the adults

12. A wolf in sheep’s clothing or just plain confusing…

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