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"To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art"
La Rochefoucauld
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Protein/Fat/Carbs and weight loss |
The ratio that you eat foods is essential. It will stabilise blood sugar levels, stimulate weight loss, weight maintenance, weight gain, hormonal stability and provide optimal energy. Many will tout the benefits of "energy" foods, but it is rare a food provides good energy by itself.
A singular food, whether a fat, a carbohydrate or a protein will only stimulate certain energy systems and functions. To get good energy, which is a sign as to whether you are eating right, is down to eating the right ratio of foods. This is the same for when you are trying to lose weight. Without the right balance between foods you will make it a lot harder to lose weight unless you eat just protein and fat and go into a fat burning state.
This principal, the principal of finding the right ratio of protein, fat and carbohydrate is, for me, the key essence of metabolic typing. Metabolic typing focuses on finding out what you could call "your ideal fuel mix". Finding this mix will enable you to stimulate all the appropriate energy systems and effectively burn fat as fuel as well as carbohydrate. After all you need to burn fat if you are looking to lose weight, and this is the essence of metabolic typing.
But finding this "ideal food mix" needs to be done at every meal. Many people have a well balanced meal at dinner, a meal they have time to prepare. But breakfast and sometimes lunch are the meals that tend to suffer from sub optimal food choices for weight loss and energy requirements due to imposed time restrictions. A bowl of cereal for breakfast and a sandwich for lunch will not provide you with a balanced supply of energy, these foods are not slow releasing unless accompanied with adequate protein and fat. These foods are also great for gaining weight unless you handle starchy carbohydrates well, which tend to be the naturally thin types.
So if you suffer with energy issues at any point in the day, are struggling to lose weight or generally feel your health could be better you could really benefit from finding out your metabolic type. But because metabolic typing focuses on ratios of fat, carbs and protein start playing around with the ratios that you are eating and see whether you notice a difference in your energy.
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| Posted on 17 November 2010 by |
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