THE BENEFITS OF CORRECT NUTRITION
- CONTROLS WEIGHT
- INCREASES QUALITY OF LIFE (better able to do everyday tasks)
- BETTER CONCENTRATION
- BETTER COMPLEXION
- INCREASES ENERGY
- PREVENTS MANY ILLNESSES AND DISEASES
- SLOWS DOWN THE AGING PROCESS
EXPLANATION OF NUTRITION
The first rule is to eat foods as close to nature as possible, avoiding processed food.
The results you will achieve with any type of training are much better if you are on a proper diet. Most people eat too many carbohydrates because they are trying to stay on a low fat diet. A lot of the low fat foods on supermarket shelves are high in carbs or sugar instead. This is actually worse than the fats they are trying to avoid. The problem with carbohydrates is that what you don’t use up for energy, you will store as body fat. There is a lot of research to show that we should eat foods that have a low glycemic index (G.I.). The G.I. is a rating of foods in relation to blood sugar response. If a food has a high G.I. then it will raise the blood sugar quickly and cause a surge of insulin, which in turn causes the storage of fat. These foods are also very bad for your energy because when a lot of insulin is released it not only brings your blood sugar back to where it was at the start, but can bring it way down below this. This is why you may feel sleepy after a large meal with a lot of carbs in the form of potatoes etc. Potatoes are high on this G.I. scale. Most carbohydrate foods are high in this scale, even some of the ones that people think are healthy foods such as pasta, potatoes, rice, bread, most cereals and most fruit Sugars are even worse offenders. That is sugar in any form; table sugar, confectionary, soft drinks etc. the ones that are low on the G.I. scale are basically all protein and fat foods. That is all meat, fish, foul, full fat dairy products etc.
Proper nutrition and why “dieting makes you fat”
When encouraging people to eat sensibly I try to avoid the word ‘diet’. People associate this with the fad starvation diets that are always advertised. These diets are misinforming and dangerous. They encourage people to lose weight by dramatically reducing calories. Cutting calories will inevitably reduce energy because you lose more muscle than fat and it’s this muscle that gives you energy, in other words you’re losing the muscle that helps you to burn calories/fat. The body then loses its muscle tone and you get softer. The body then learns to live on fewer calories and when you return to a normal diet (as is inevitable) you will be more susceptible to gaining fat because your metabolism has slowed down. The way around this is to go on a proper nutrition plan that can be sustained long term and will enhance your body shape and energy levels.
Conversely, if you lose fat and gain muscle then your body’s energy levels and metabolism are increased and you burn more calories. Therefore you can actually eat more while staying lean and without gaining fat!
Your dietician may also suggest some dietary supplements, which have proven to improve results for many people.
Supplementation
There is a lot of research to show that you can get extra benefit from supplementing your diet with the Natural Health Food Supplements.
A good quality Multi-Vitamin and Mineral is a good way to start but there are many others that you can use depending on your lifestyle and the goals you wish to achieve.
These supplements are not meant to replace healthy food but rather, as the name suggests, supplement the diet with nutrients that we are not getting the optimum levels of from our diet.
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