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Proper nutrition is one of the key elements in putting on massive muscular body size.

The diet of a bodybuilder and the diet of the average person are vastly different. For example, the average person derives most of his or her caloric intake from processed foods. "There is a problem with the average diet in that two-thirds of the food Americans eat is processed, and processing almost always depletes nutrient content. Government surveys continually find vast numbers of Americans deficient in many nutrients critical to health. Sugar and highly processed refined carbohydrates comprise an estimated 60 percent of our total dietary intake. These are the "empty calorie" foods, poor in nutrition, high in fat, that force the body to borrow from nutrient reserves to digest the junk."

If you try and build a big and muscular body on junk food you will almost instantly flop. The diet of the average person just won't cut it when it comes to making your muscles massive. Processed food will make your stomach massive instead of your muscles. The difference a proper diet makes is seen in the contrast between a bloated belly as opposed to bulging muscles. The two are opposites. Each comes about
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