Men’s fitness tips - daily nutrition

You’ve been doing your cardio and lifting your weights religiously for some time now but the results you want are still not there. That’s because exercise is a pyramid and, while nutrition is usually the easiest part of the triangle (no running or heavy lifting at the dinner table), it is usually the most over looked.
First, there is no need to ever go on a diet. The problem with diets is that they limit consumption of a certain energy sources such as protein, carbs, or fat so that you are craving something your body naturally need and when you go off the diet you put the weight back on.
While gorging yourself on carbs is not recommended starving your body of carbs is not either. Carbs are your body’s preferred source of energy. One reason why people lose weigh on a low carb diet is that they lose water weight by depleting their muscle glycogen. Glycogen is essentially carbohydrate that is stored in your muscle. Water is also held in the muscle cells along with the glycogen. Consequently, when you lose glycogen you also lose water weight. The problem with this is that your body becomes like a raisin which was a grape that is just sucked of its juices.

Another type of diet is a low fat diet. However, fat is essential to the body and eliminating fat is not as beneficial as it may seem. Did you know that even though the native Inuit of Alaska traditionally ate a very high fat diet they had a very low rate of obesity. In the islands of the Pacific coconut fat has traditionally comprised 60%-70% of caloric intake however these people have historically been very lean.

So what’s a guy to do? Nutrition need not be a chore. It can be as simple as changing some dietary habits. My wife lost 40-50 pounds in a year by simply eliminating soda from her diet. This is because the main culprit to poor nutrition an epidemic of obesity is not carbs or fat it is processed foods. The people of Alaska and the Pacific did not eat overly processed foods. They ate food the way it was meant to be eaten. Fruits, nuts and vegetables, fish, chicken and beef are meant to be eaten in their most natural and unprocessed state.
As Mike Geary says in The Truth About Six Pack Abs “The historical increase in the use of highly processed and refined foods such as refined flour, refined sugar, and refined/hydrogenated vegetable oils coincides with the increase in degenerative diseases such as heart disease and obesity.”

So, if you want to make the most of your gains in the gym or on the track or however you maintain yourself just make some fundamental changes to your diet. And, if you are interested in finding out more, take a look at this. Click Here!