Understanding Nutrition

Understanding Nutrition, Metabolism, and Health

 

There is a saying: “Athletes Eat to Train all others Diet and Workout.”

Reframe the statement to change the way you look at food.

Food is Fuel: each component of nutrition plays a specific role in fueling our minds and bodies. The four components focused on are Calories, Carbohydrates, Fats, and Proteins.

 

A. Calories consumed subtracting your Resting Metabolic Rate (the calories your body burns off to function throughout the day) provides a number. This is where exercise and calorie burning come into play.

B. Carbohydrates are the main source and best source of energy. The comparison will be to gasoline and the three grades of it. The cheapest gas will be sugary items, the midgrade gas are white starches and fruit, and the expensive premium gas are low glycemic foods such as, brown rice.

             C. Fats - Good Fats and Bad Fats ???? Lift up your shirt and tell me which luv handle is the good fat and which one is the bad fat...

             D. Proteins - Grill Everything

The metabolism: is simple cause and effect, you’re eating habits past and present (Nutrition) determines how slow or fast you Metabolize food. The metabolism is constantly working, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, and it remembers everything you eat. Every individual has an ideal breakdown of calories for every meal consumed.

A. Current body composition

B. Current Health

C.  Fitness goals will determine your daily calorie intake.

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