Untold Nutritional Secrets
Gary Matthews asked:
A good understanding of nutrition and how to use the information will be extremely rewarding for anyone. We can all prevent disease and fight infection utilizing a powerful medicine ‘Food’ Using nutrition and supplementing your diet is the key to fat loss and muscle gain. Have a look at these Nutritional Secrets and discover how to stay disease free, feel great, look good and live longer.
Lets take a look:
How Much Protein Do I Need – Protein is a normal part of out diet; a nutrient widely distributed among animal and plant foods, and it plays many essential roles in the body. Dietary protein has two possible fates – it can be either used in growth and repair or burned for energy, like carbohydrate and fat. Sedentary person: 0.75 grams/lb/day, Recreational athlete: 1.00 grams/lb/day, Serious athlete: 2.00 grams/lb/day.
Protein Cycling – Since strength training greatly increases the rate at which protein is broken down in the body, it follows that 0.75gms per Pound is inadequate. On the other hand to increase the intake of protein to say, 3.0gm per Pound straight away would trigger mechanisms to eliminate the excess protein.
One way to overcome this is to increase the protein in steps until a maximum efficiency point is reached and then it is drastically reduced. This obliges the body to compensate by increasing the efficiency for the absorption of protein and amino acids.
Why Carbohydrates? – Carbohydrates supply energy to out body, fibre for prevention against disease and taste and texture to food, they are found in cereals, potatoes, fruits and vegetables. Recommended: 4 to 12 grams/lb/day. Over the last 30 years, research into food and blood glucose response has completely changed our carbohydrate classification system.
It has been learned that it is impossible to predict the impact on blood glucose levels by certain foods, instead people are fed carbohydrate foods and the response measured. This response is known as the Glycaemic Index (GI), it is a measure of how quickly carbohydrate foods are digested and absorbed, as indicted by elevated blood glucose. The slower the rate of blood glucose increases the lower the GI.
Super Foods – In the food industry super-foods are called “functional foods”. These foods provide a health benefit beyond the simple provision of nutrients or energy, and usually target a specific disease or condition. In most cases media headlines about the disease-fighting capacity of foods are hyped up versions of current research reality. Below is a summary of what some super-foods can and can’t do for you.
Vitamins and Minerals – In general an adequate intake of vitamin and minerals can be achieved with a balanced diet. However, there may be a strong rationale for supplementation in specific nutrients.
Herbals – The latest herbal super-stars include Echinacea, gingko, and St John’s Wart. They don’t pitch themselves as lifesavers, but more as life-maximizes, helping you to get through the day with less disruption from colds, memory failures, blue moods, and more.
Supplements – To supplement or not to supplement, that is the question on more consumers’ lips than ever before. There are various reasons why people may be interested in supplementation. Concern about getting adequate nutrients from our food supply. A Suspicion of pharmaceuticals and a belief that diet alone will not achieve optimal nutrition.
Studies suggest that a number of supplements may deliver on advertising claims. However, consumers can spend large sums of money on products that have little or no proven efficacy.
The Bottom Line On Supplements – your diet that might achieve your goals but choose only products that shows the amount of active ingredients on the label. Be aware that “natural” does not mean ’safe’; some herbal supplements may have unpleasant side effects. Don’t treat serious medical conditions yourself. Discuss supplement use with your doctor. If you are pregnant or are breast-feeding consult a doctor before taking supplements.
Only Eat the Good Fats – Eat the good fats and feel and look great, Authorities now agree that fat is essential for maintaining optimal health. If good healthy skin and fast metabolism is what your after then you must eat some fat. The good fats are found in fish, nuts and seeds, avocados and cold pressed oils. Avoid fried foods and saturated fats as these raise cholesterol and clog arteries.
Eat A Variety Of Foods – For protection from the majority of illnesses such as heart disease and cancer you need a variety of foods that deliver that mix of nutrients and minerals. Aim to eat different coloured fruits and vegetables.
Try to eat a different food each month. Eat an apple a day as the apple pectin cleanses the body’s digestive system by removing toxins and therefore preventing degenerative health problems such as cancer.
In conclusion, I am sure if you can apply even just a few of these tips to your everyday eating habits I am pretty sure you will see the results in the not to distant future.
Food and Nutrition
A good understanding of nutrition and how to use the information will be extremely rewarding for anyone. We can all prevent disease and fight infection utilizing a powerful medicine ‘Food’ Using nutrition and supplementing your diet is the key to fat loss and muscle gain. Have a look at these Nutritional Secrets and discover how to stay disease free, feel great, look good and live longer.
Lets take a look:
How Much Protein Do I Need – Protein is a normal part of out diet; a nutrient widely distributed among animal and plant foods, and it plays many essential roles in the body. Dietary protein has two possible fates – it can be either used in growth and repair or burned for energy, like carbohydrate and fat. Sedentary person: 0.75 grams/lb/day, Recreational athlete: 1.00 grams/lb/day, Serious athlete: 2.00 grams/lb/day.
Protein Cycling – Since strength training greatly increases the rate at which protein is broken down in the body, it follows that 0.75gms per Pound is inadequate. On the other hand to increase the intake of protein to say, 3.0gm per Pound straight away would trigger mechanisms to eliminate the excess protein.
One way to overcome this is to increase the protein in steps until a maximum efficiency point is reached and then it is drastically reduced. This obliges the body to compensate by increasing the efficiency for the absorption of protein and amino acids.
Why Carbohydrates? – Carbohydrates supply energy to out body, fibre for prevention against disease and taste and texture to food, they are found in cereals, potatoes, fruits and vegetables. Recommended: 4 to 12 grams/lb/day. Over the last 30 years, research into food and blood glucose response has completely changed our carbohydrate classification system.
It has been learned that it is impossible to predict the impact on blood glucose levels by certain foods, instead people are fed carbohydrate foods and the response measured. This response is known as the Glycaemic Index (GI), it is a measure of how quickly carbohydrate foods are digested and absorbed, as indicted by elevated blood glucose. The slower the rate of blood glucose increases the lower the GI.
Super Foods – In the food industry super-foods are called “functional foods”. These foods provide a health benefit beyond the simple provision of nutrients or energy, and usually target a specific disease or condition. In most cases media headlines about the disease-fighting capacity of foods are hyped up versions of current research reality. Below is a summary of what some super-foods can and can’t do for you.
Vitamins and Minerals – In general an adequate intake of vitamin and minerals can be achieved with a balanced diet. However, there may be a strong rationale for supplementation in specific nutrients.
Herbals – The latest herbal super-stars include Echinacea, gingko, and St John’s Wart. They don’t pitch themselves as lifesavers, but more as life-maximizes, helping you to get through the day with less disruption from colds, memory failures, blue moods, and more.
Supplements – To supplement or not to supplement, that is the question on more consumers’ lips than ever before. There are various reasons why people may be interested in supplementation. Concern about getting adequate nutrients from our food supply. A Suspicion of pharmaceuticals and a belief that diet alone will not achieve optimal nutrition.
Studies suggest that a number of supplements may deliver on advertising claims. However, consumers can spend large sums of money on products that have little or no proven efficacy.
The Bottom Line On Supplements – your diet that might achieve your goals but choose only products that shows the amount of active ingredients on the label. Be aware that “natural” does not mean ’safe’; some herbal supplements may have unpleasant side effects. Don’t treat serious medical conditions yourself. Discuss supplement use with your doctor. If you are pregnant or are breast-feeding consult a doctor before taking supplements.
Only Eat the Good Fats – Eat the good fats and feel and look great, Authorities now agree that fat is essential for maintaining optimal health. If good healthy skin and fast metabolism is what your after then you must eat some fat. The good fats are found in fish, nuts and seeds, avocados and cold pressed oils. Avoid fried foods and saturated fats as these raise cholesterol and clog arteries.
Eat A Variety Of Foods – For protection from the majority of illnesses such as heart disease and cancer you need a variety of foods that deliver that mix of nutrients and minerals. Aim to eat different coloured fruits and vegetables.
Try to eat a different food each month. Eat an apple a day as the apple pectin cleanses the body’s digestive system by removing toxins and therefore preventing degenerative health problems such as cancer.
In conclusion, I am sure if you can apply even just a few of these tips to your everyday eating habits I am pretty sure you will see the results in the not to distant future.
Food and Nutrition
Nutrition For Your Cells (Part 2) – Getting Toxins Out Of Our Bodies and Nutrition In
Gen Wright asked:
tion For your Cells Part 2(Continued from Nutrition For the Cells – How can we eat right to keep healthy?} By Warren Tattersall & Susan SmithGetting Nutrition To Your Cells Involves Three Functions: 1. Cleansing 2. Absorption 3. Cellular Regeneration 1. GETTING NUTRITION TO YOUR CELLS: Cleansing OUR MODERN DIET AND LIFESTYLES ALLOW A BUILD UP OF TOXINS AND POISONS IN OUR SYSTEM, THAT STRESS OUR WHOLE BODY, PARTICULARLY OUR VITAL ORGANS AND OUR GLANDULAR SYSTEMS. Many of us live on diets of highly processed foods and we eat at irregular times or at least have our heaviest meals at the wrong time of the day. We have foods that are low in fibre and high in sugars and fats. This means that the food we do eat takes much longer than it should to pass through our bowel and it putrefies and creates toxic stress on our organs. The stress on our livers of breaking down high levels of animal products, meats and fats, as well as the drugs and poisons often associated with animal meats, causes problems. Often people’s livers are swollen and strained from the load we put them under. The constant demand for digestive enzymes, due to the lack of enzymes contained within the food we eat, can cause the pancreas to swell to an abnormal size. The villi and micro-villi in the small intestine draw nutrients from the foods we eat and pass them through the walls of the small intestine, into our blood stream and lymph system for delivery to our cells. They become compromised by being brittle and break off. If stressed they don’t regenerate, as they are naturally supposed to. If we then eat high fat foods they can layer our digestive system from our stomach to our colon, with mucus like rubbish that prevents us absorbing the nutrition from the food we eat, and compromises our entire health system. Our bodies are hugely resilient and can deal with incredible abuse but if we eat low fibre food and don’t exercise we can look forward to a high risk of bowel or colon cancer. If we allow ourselves to become overweight and don’t pay attention to the amount of sugars we are eating, we are likely to join the growing ranks of people who suffer diabetes. If we allow our arteries to clog up with plaque, we can look forward to heart attack and stroke. In earlier years the result from poor nutrition is low energy and not living life to the full. As people reach middle age, 50, 60 years, these unwise food and nutrition choices are manifesting in chronic illness and even death. Medical authorities are happy to admit that up to 80% of all sickness and death can be directly linked to nutritional causes. We need to pay attention and do something about it, or we are likely to deal with sickness, diseases, and shorter lives as a result. What Steps Can We Take To Aid Our Bodies In Keeping Us Well? First let’s go back to an earlier statement. The body will always replace old cells with newer, healthier cells, provided it has a clean base to work on. Modern life feeds chemicals into our bodies: petrol fumes, tobacco smoke (either self administered or from being around smokers), the growth hormones and other chemicals that are pumped into most meats we buy from the shops, preservatives and colourings in food, cleaning chemicals, etc, etc, etc. We are surrounded by chemicals in every part of our lives. If we live in modern society we are absorbing chemicals every day. We need to clean these out of our system on a regular basis. If we do not then the chemical builds up and the toxic overload shows initially as: - Bowel issues: diarrhoea or constipation. - Skin issues: acne, pimples, boils and liver spots. - Bad perspiration & body odour. - Bad breath. And so on, as our bodies try to aid our overtaxed kidneys and push the poisons out in any way they can. When the overload becomes too great we are at risk of chronic disease and even fatal conditions, stemming from this problem. When you find the right nutrition programs they are packed with herbs that gently, but firmly, detoxify your body. They draw the toxins and poisons out of the muscles and vital organs and dump them into the blood stream where they can be passed out of your body with your waste products. This is one reason why you are always recommended to drink at least 8 large glasses of clean water a day (i.e. 2 litres – 1 Quart). While you should be drinking this anyway it is extremely important at the beginning of a good nutrition program as it is required if you are going to flush the poisons out of your body and start on the road to better health. (Article continues in Nutrition For Your Cells (Part 3) By Warren Tattersall and Susan Smith
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tion For your Cells Part 2(Continued from Nutrition For the Cells – How can we eat right to keep healthy?} By Warren Tattersall & Susan SmithGetting Nutrition To Your Cells Involves Three Functions: 1. Cleansing 2. Absorption 3. Cellular Regeneration 1. GETTING NUTRITION TO YOUR CELLS: Cleansing OUR MODERN DIET AND LIFESTYLES ALLOW A BUILD UP OF TOXINS AND POISONS IN OUR SYSTEM, THAT STRESS OUR WHOLE BODY, PARTICULARLY OUR VITAL ORGANS AND OUR GLANDULAR SYSTEMS. Many of us live on diets of highly processed foods and we eat at irregular times or at least have our heaviest meals at the wrong time of the day. We have foods that are low in fibre and high in sugars and fats. This means that the food we do eat takes much longer than it should to pass through our bowel and it putrefies and creates toxic stress on our organs. The stress on our livers of breaking down high levels of animal products, meats and fats, as well as the drugs and poisons often associated with animal meats, causes problems. Often people’s livers are swollen and strained from the load we put them under. The constant demand for digestive enzymes, due to the lack of enzymes contained within the food we eat, can cause the pancreas to swell to an abnormal size. The villi and micro-villi in the small intestine draw nutrients from the foods we eat and pass them through the walls of the small intestine, into our blood stream and lymph system for delivery to our cells. They become compromised by being brittle and break off. If stressed they don’t regenerate, as they are naturally supposed to. If we then eat high fat foods they can layer our digestive system from our stomach to our colon, with mucus like rubbish that prevents us absorbing the nutrition from the food we eat, and compromises our entire health system. Our bodies are hugely resilient and can deal with incredible abuse but if we eat low fibre food and don’t exercise we can look forward to a high risk of bowel or colon cancer. If we allow ourselves to become overweight and don’t pay attention to the amount of sugars we are eating, we are likely to join the growing ranks of people who suffer diabetes. If we allow our arteries to clog up with plaque, we can look forward to heart attack and stroke. In earlier years the result from poor nutrition is low energy and not living life to the full. As people reach middle age, 50, 60 years, these unwise food and nutrition choices are manifesting in chronic illness and even death. Medical authorities are happy to admit that up to 80% of all sickness and death can be directly linked to nutritional causes. We need to pay attention and do something about it, or we are likely to deal with sickness, diseases, and shorter lives as a result. What Steps Can We Take To Aid Our Bodies In Keeping Us Well? First let’s go back to an earlier statement. The body will always replace old cells with newer, healthier cells, provided it has a clean base to work on. Modern life feeds chemicals into our bodies: petrol fumes, tobacco smoke (either self administered or from being around smokers), the growth hormones and other chemicals that are pumped into most meats we buy from the shops, preservatives and colourings in food, cleaning chemicals, etc, etc, etc. We are surrounded by chemicals in every part of our lives. If we live in modern society we are absorbing chemicals every day. We need to clean these out of our system on a regular basis. If we do not then the chemical builds up and the toxic overload shows initially as: - Bowel issues: diarrhoea or constipation. - Skin issues: acne, pimples, boils and liver spots. - Bad perspiration & body odour. - Bad breath. And so on, as our bodies try to aid our overtaxed kidneys and push the poisons out in any way they can. When the overload becomes too great we are at risk of chronic disease and even fatal conditions, stemming from this problem. When you find the right nutrition programs they are packed with herbs that gently, but firmly, detoxify your body. They draw the toxins and poisons out of the muscles and vital organs and dump them into the blood stream where they can be passed out of your body with your waste products. This is one reason why you are always recommended to drink at least 8 large glasses of clean water a day (i.e. 2 litres – 1 Quart). While you should be drinking this anyway it is extremely important at the beginning of a good nutrition program as it is required if you are going to flush the poisons out of your body and start on the road to better health. (Article continues in Nutrition For Your Cells (Part 3) By Warren Tattersall and Susan Smith
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