Nutrition, Fitness and Exercise

Have you ever seen those people on television with lean bodies and wondered how they keep in shape? If you listen to the many reports that tell us how to stay fit and lean, yet you are only hearing what the reports are telling you, then you are missing the real secret to staying fit and lean. First, breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and when you miss breakfast, you are only enhancing your body’s ability to avoid lean and fitness.

Nutrition is a vital necessity that our body needs. Exercise is another vital force that keeps us lean and healthy. We also must avoid harmful chemicals and substances that can cause our body harm, affecting the vital organs in our body, decreasing our chance of staying healthy, and having a lean body. So then, if you seen these reports and listened, but failed to hear the messages, you are missing out on one of the biggest and best secrets of your life!
Secrets reveal that a post-workout meal can enhance your body’s function, since exercising before eating, can affect “muscle glycogen” depleting and increasing your hydrocortisone levels, finally breaking “down your muscle tissues.” If you eat a healthy meal that includes carbohydrates and protein after your workout, it will reverse the effect your workout had on your body.

Amino Acids repair the bodies’ muscles, and when this nutrient is affected, it harms the body. Therefore, when you intake carbohydrates combined with proteins you are re-issuing your body’s level of amino acid required to function properly. If you elect to eat a meal that consists of carbohydrates combined with protein, you can promote your “insulin spike from the pancreas,” which in turns “shuttles nutrients into the muscle cells.”  It depends on your body type and weight, but for the most part your post-workout meal should consist of “300-500 calories.”

If you workout and feel this surge of hunger after you workout, this is why…your body is loosing something and in order to get it back, it must be replaced with what it lost. This might not make since, but if you think about it, your body (while working out) is loosing calories and fat, while your cholesterol, Carbohydrates, and other nutrients are also affected. Your body needs to maintain a certain level of insulin, nutrients, and so on to remain stable. If the body is not at its desired level, then a (what seems like a negative result) or a negative result will occur. Your body is the only tool you have to feel good, stay lean, and live longer. When you are not taking care of your body, then your body will not take care of you.

If you are not able or don’t have access to a meal that restores your body’s requirements, you might want to invest in some of the nutritional drinks on the market. It is important that you keep your post meal at a fat smallest amount, “since fat slows the absorption of the meal, which is the opposite of what you want after a workout.” Fat can do three types of damage to the body.

Fat can “suffocate” the body’s “tissues by depriving them of oxygen.” Fat also raises your “level of cholesterol and uric acid in your tissues.” When fat raises your level the uric acid and cholesterol level, it can cause “atherosclerosis and gout.” Fat also obstructs the carbohydrates metabolism in your body, and any mixture of irregular conditions typified by the secretion and excretion of excessive amount of urine. This condition is typically known as diabetes. Therefore avoiding too much fat, can not only keep you lean, but also, save your life!

Do not overdo carbohydrates and protein either, since it too can cause harm. It is important to stay within a calorie range, to prevent overeating. It is also important to know which exercises suits your body needs.