Nutrition can be a confusing topic when you get different opinions, suggestions, recommendations from different people you talk to! It can be very frustrating when you are working hard to improve your health as nutrition is a key part of the puzzle! I have learned of a new book that doesn't focus as much on total calories, but what macronutrients are in the food you eat and how they work with YOUR body and what your body does. Some people are just trying to lose weight, some are trying to build a lot of muscle too, some are hard core athletes...we are all different. The basis is the same. I have a excerpt from "Mark's Daily Apple" web page http://www.marksdailyapple.com/ and it lists the four basic principles of the Primal Blueprint eating style---a new book that touts to reprogram your genes for effortless weight loss, vibrant health and boundless energy! Sounds good to me! The process surely won't be effortless with a thorough evaluation of everything you put in your body, but the results surely may be worth the effort. Here's the excerpt:
I start with these four basic principles to guide my Primal Blueprint eating style:
1) 80% of your body composition will be determined by your diet. Yes, exercise is also important to health and to speed up fat-burning and muscle-building, but most of your results will come from how you eat. I’ll write more on this later, so just trust me on this one for now. Suffice to say, people who weigh a ton and exercise a ton, but eat a ton, still tend to weigh a ton. I think I’ll have that made into a t-shirt…
2) Lean Body Mass (LBM) is the key to life. I’ve said it many times on this site: lean mass (muscle and all the rest of you that is not fat) is directly correlated with longevity and excellent health. Rather than strive to “lose weight”, most people would be better off striving to lose only fat and to build or maintain muscle. Since other organs tend to function at a level that correlates to muscle mass, the more muscle you maintain throughout life, the more “organ reserve” you’ll have (i.e. the better the rest of you will work). Refer back to rule #1 and eat to build or maintain muscle.
3) Excess body fat is bad. Most human studies show that being significantly overweight increases your risk of nearly every disease (except osteoporosis – because ironically it responds to weight-bearing activities). Fat just doesn’t look that great either. See rule #1 and eat to keep body fat relatively low.
4) Excess insulin is bad. We’ve written about it here a lot. Chronic excess insulin may be even worse than excess sugar (and we know how bad that is). All animals produce insulin, but within any species, those that produce less insulin live longer than those who produce a lot. Eat to keep insulin low.
If you want to read more, check out the site http://www.marksdailyapple.com/
(I have no connection to the site or the author, just some information I came across that I thought would be of interest to you)
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