Food Programming versus Dieting

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It's surprised at how little people understand about how the three food groups—proteins, carbohydrates, and fats—function in synergyto maintain physical health.

You cannot avoid consuming any one of these kinds of nutrients and expect to be slim, metabolically food programing
efficient, and balanced. Yet we live in a culture where popular diet books have made fats and/or carbohydrates the foods to avoid. Some diet gurus advocate an almost total avoidance of carbohydrates and a large intake of protein. Others give you the idea that all fats are bad—the eating-fats-equals-gettingfat myth. And some downplay the importance of choosing unsaturated fats, such as olive oil and soy butter, over saturated fats, such as dairy butter and cheese, telling you that it is actually healthy to eat foods with lots of butter and cream sauces. Of course, these foods taste good, but is a constant diet of foods cooked in butter, covered with melted cheese, and swimming in cream sauce good for you? The bottom line is that over the short term you can probably lose weight on almost any diet out there, no matter how strange or how calorically restrictive. But you should ask the following questions when considering a new food program:
- Will this program work in the long run? In other words, will you be able to keep the fat off once you’ve managed to take it off?
- Is this program so calorically restrictive that you will have to live with hunger 24/7 (and be tempted to go off your diet or binge)?
- Will this program help you lose body fat while rebuilding lean muscle mass?
- Will this food program make you healthier—that is, lower your cholesterol and triglycerides?
- Will this program help you feel energized or make you exhausted and cranky?

Nutritional Plan
The Fat-Burning Metabolic Fitness Nutritional Plan meets all of the criteria above, plus it is designed to support and work in tandem with the Fat-Burning Metabolic Fitness Exercise Plan to help you lose the maximum amount of fat. The duration and intensity of each exercise module in chapter 13 has been carefully planned to work in synergy with the balanced energy (caloric) deficit of my meal plans. The timing of when you eat and when you exercise is also very important. Exercising before a meal increases metabolism, elevating your fat-burning capacity even hours after the exercise is over. This is known as the thermic effect of food. For example, a recent article in the International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism shows how resistive exercise enhances the body’s ability to metabolize foods, especially carbohydrates. Cardiovascular exercise, when done at the proper intensity for the proper amount of time, has the same effect.

There are five key reasons why my food plan not only takes off the fat but helps you to stay slim over the long run.
1. It is intelligently balanced between proteins, carbohydrates, and fats based on the evidence presented by nutritional science.
2. It will adequately satisfy your body’s daily caloric requirements.
3. This program never puts your daily caloric intake so low that you will feel undue hunger, physical or emotional stress, or loss of energy.
4. It provides you with three balanced meals and two snacks per day to keep your energy levels consistent.
5. Since we are all a bit different from one another, it has a certain amount of flexibility built into it to allow for your individual nutri-tional needs. For example, a man or a woman who is very athletic will require more protein than someone who is more sedentary.

Disclaimer: This website is for information purposes only. By providing the information contained herein we are not diagnosing, treating, curing, mitigating, or preventing any type of disease or medical condition. Before beginning any type of natural, integrative or conventional treatment regime, it is advisible to seek the advice of a licensed healthcare professional.