Diet

Imagine eating more food and losing more fat with no hunger or cravings.

It is commonly known that fats, proteins, and carbohydrates are all needed in a balanced amount. Diet is not about what the body “wants” but providing the body with what it needs. The hypoglycemic diet is a one that provides the body with the nutrients it needs in the proper amounts with the proper timing. The hypoglycemic diet involves small to moderate amounts of food often (every two to three hours); this consists of at least two snacks and three meals per day. Foods would be comprised of moderate protein, moderate carbohydrates and moderate to low fat. Recently, a new book, The Zone, has shown through twelve years of study that a diet consisting of approximately 40% carbohydrates, 30% protein and 30% fat is optimal.

Other Diets

Low fat diets allow blood sugar levels to drop too quickly often causing carbohydrate cravings. Fat is needed in the diet for the absorption of fat soluble vitamins. Unsaturated fats comprising at least 2% of the total daily calorie content is needed for optimal health.
High carbohydrate diets can cause excessive insulin production leaving the pancreas and adrenals stressed. In time this can cause hypoglycemia and/or diabetes.

Low protein diets slow the body’s ability to recover from stress and stress of exercise. Without adequate protein, the body loses lean tissue or muscle which causes the metabolism to slowdown. Protein is needed for proper response of the immune system.

Calorie counting and food types play a part in weight loss, but the timing of your food consumption is as or more important. You can’t exercise enough in one week to make up for 2 bad meals! Do sweat it! Most all weight loss programs are what they say, weight loss!

Weight loss programs may lose 1 lb. of muscle to 2-3 lbs. of fat! Losing muscle slows your metabolism. This is one of the reasons “weight loss” programs can hit so many set or sticking points. If you’re having trouble with low energy, instead of eating more carbs why don’t you try repairing the tissues and eating protein.

Supplementation

Our bodies are almost totally replaced down to the last cell in just over one year. Where are these replacement materials acquired? By what we eat! But with the modification and “optimization” of our foods today, we no longer are able to get the proper amounts of nutrients just from our foods. For optimal health and nutrition, we need to include vitamin and mineral supplements in our diets as well. Surely these replacement materials are worth a dollar or two of vitamins and minerals a day to insure optimum health? If we are what we eat, would we rather be fast, cheap, and easy?

The interaction of the nutrients from our food and supplements is the most important key to our health. Vitamins are found in all living tissues, but the body cannot manufacture its own so they must be supplied in our diets. Vitamins work in combination with minerals and enzymes to assist many biological functions in our body, working at the cellular level. Minerals are found in all components of the body and are important to fluid balance, acid and alkaline balance, the production of hormones and are especially important to mental and physical well being. While both essential to the proper functioning of any human body, vitamins make-up less than 1% of your body and minerals make-up more than 5%! The fact is you don’t get all your body needs from the foods you eat. Quality supplementation is the insurance policy for your physical health!

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