Facts About Nutrition Why So Necessary?
What are the facts about nutrition? Nutrition is the process by which the cells in the body obtain what they need to maintain them. That's the scientific explanation. The food that you eat is where nutrition is found.
An essential fact about nutrition is that our body has “famine mode”, and this is a really vital piece of information about nutrition you should know if you're thinking about losing weight. When food is scarce famine mode is the body's defense system in order to survive. Over our evolution most of the time food was not as plentiful as it is now so our bodies adjusted.
Famine mode is set off when your body realises that it's not getting the calories it needs so, to compensate it begins to accumulate the calories it is receiving. To do this the body dramatically reduces the metabolic rate (which is the rate your body burns calories while at rest). The body now begins to convert muscle tissue into energy to make up the short fall in calories. Muscles are very 'expensive' to sustain as they take too many calories, so in times of famine it's more important to store body fat.
Because many weight loss plans curb the number of calories you can consume each day it is important that you are aware of famine mode. By going into famine mode not only will the metabolic rate slow down but it will also mean you will lose muscle tissue which is the very thing that helps you to look good and burn up the calories – a double tradegy!
It's a law of physics rather than a law of dieting that you do need to consume less calories than you burn in order to lose weight. Just remember the fact you've just learnt about nutrition 'famine mode' so reduce the calorie intake slowly rather than quickly and massively. A good average differential figure to aim towards between burned and consumed calories is 500 a day. The other way to fool your body into believing that there is abundance is to eat small meals more often – the recommended time is 3 hourly. By doing this the body will be quite happy to use the fat for energy rather than the muscle tissue.
To stay away from famine mode another way is to incorporate resistance training into your exercise regime – it will also help to change your body for the better. You can prompt your body to direct the calories you consume into building muscle tissue rather than fat by doing weights and the more muscle you build then the more calories you will burn even when you're resting.
What a great body you'll end up having!
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