Healthy Food Ingredients for Healthy Muscle Growth

Today I read a great article about foods that help to maximize your muscle power on MSN.com. Recently I wrote a blog post discussing three popular myths about exercise. One of them referred to the idea that you only need to do cardio to lose weight: in fact, muscle toning is important to increase your calorie burning abilities - both during workouts and at rest! The article was very relevant to the point of my blog post. It serves as a nice follow up for how to help your body to gain the desired muscle tone & power! I've paraphrased what the article had to say below. If you're interested in reading the full article, visit this link.

Fish: Lean fish contains the amino acids needed to build muscles and provide the materials needed to create and repair other tissues.


Sweet Potato's: Great source of potassium & antioxidants needed to build muscles.


Low Fat Yogurt: Rich in protein, potassium, calcium & vitamin D that all work to keep muscles functioning correctly.


Quinoa: Great source of good carbs that help to fuel the body.


Pumpkin Seeds: Loaded with important magnesium, manganese, iron and copper.


Think about these things when you make dinner next. Mm, mm good!