ANSWER: The Arch Deluxe is another of those fast-food items that should be sold along with a CPR chart! One burger has a whopping 570 calories and an incredible 31 grams of fat. About 50 percent of those calories (279 of them) are from fat, and they're mostly saturated fat, the worst kind.
If you're eating 1,500 calories a day, one Arch Deluxe burger supplies you with over 1/3 of your daily total. If you're eating 25 percent of your total daily calories from fat, the Arch Deluxe supplies you with all but 96 of your total daily fat calories. That means you can have only 10 1/2 grams of fat from other food sources.
You can also have the Arch Deluxe with bacon. Just add 40 more calories and three more grams of fat. This is probably one of the tastiest artery-clogging sandwiches ever created.
One more thing you should know: other than its excess of dietary fat, the Arch Deluxe burger delivers very few nutrients.
ANSWER: HMB - beta-hydroxy methly-butyrate - is a substance produced by the body at a rate of about 1/2 gram per day. HMB is thought to be needed for damage control and repair of muscle tissue.
HMB supplements appear to help prevent some of the damage to muscles caused by rigorous exercise or to speed up the repair of those muscles. In turn, this may lead to more rapid muscle gain. However, at this point HMB is relatively new, and exercise scientists are not yet ready to confirm HMB as a breakthrough in protein supplementation.
For HMB to work, you have to maximize your exercise potential. You cannot be a couch potato and expect HMB to build a great physique for you. Not even someone who exercises moderately will benefit much from HMB. HMB is best suited for those exercising at high levels of intensity.
HMB is expensive. You need to take three grams a day. A bottle lasting 10 days costs about $35.
HMB is water soluble; it's excreted in the urine and does not accumulate in the body. But because HMB has been studied for such a short period of time, the physiological effects of extended use are as yet unknown. Exercise professionals consider HMB promising but controversial. Definitive studies still must be done.