Healthy Eating

Hi all,

This is a difficult subject matter to summarize, as many people term and perceive "healthy eating" to mean many different things, for example, a Google search brings up search results from dieting, the food pyramid, food recipes, lifestyle. All of these are relevant and, to some degree, are interrelated, but, I guess, in relation to my ideas, I would term healthy eating as....

“Fulfilling your nutritional requirements efficiently, using a varied and balanced diet which you enjoy.”

I know, not the catchiest of slogans, but, to me, this is largely true - healthy eating is not about being ridiculously regimented with a strict diet of certain percentages of food types and nutrients, it's about enjoying the food that you eat, but not TOO MUCH. However, I feel it is very healthy to know more about how your body works and the role that food and exercise play to make it work more efficiently. 

Until the next time (tomorrow),

GP

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Diets and Dieting

For many of you diet will mean losing weight, toning up and burning fat, rather than just your maintenance daily eating habits. There are many different diets out there - Atkins Diet, South Beach Diet, Zone Diet, Cabbage Soup Diet, Ketogenic Diet etc. - all of which have the simple aim of you consuming less calories (food energy), therefore, causing a negative energy balance & you losing weight.

Different diets present different problems, some more so than others. The fundamental flaw of most people's diet plans (or rather, lack of plan) is both EFFICIENCY and SUSTAINABILITY. For example, if you did not alter your activity levels, but cut out a couple of meals a day (say 600 calories less a day), initially you'll lose weight through causing a negative energy balance, but, before long, this will become your maintenance calories (level energy balance), as your metabolism (body's processes) will slow. The reason, not having to work as hard to break down food as regularly and correcting its self to your new calorie intake - your body's very clever! Subsequently, if you were to resume what you considered normal eating, you're likely to put on more weight than you started with. Not quite what you wanted to read - there being no quick fix, but, if thought out properly, there's no reason you cannot achieve realistic diet & physique goals.

Visit the Gym Professor web site to find out more about the following subjects:

How do I make my body more EFFICIENT?

How do I SUSTAIN weight loss throughout my diet?

Popular Diets

Healthy Eating

PERSONALISED DIET PLANS

Fat Burners & Metabolism Boosters

SAMPLE DIET PLAN

All the best,

Gym P. 

Healthy Eating

This is a difficult category to summarise, as many people term and perceive "healthy eating" to mean many different things, for example, a google search brings up search results from dieting,
the food pyramid, food recipes, lifestyle. All of these are relevant and, to some degree, are interrelated. But, I guess, in relation to myself, I (Gym P) would term healthy eating as....

"Fulfilling your nutritional requirements efficiently with a varied and balanced diet which you enjoy."

I know, not the catchiest of slogans and I'm sure I'll delete it at a later date, but to me this is largely true - healthy eating's not about being ridiculously regimented with a strict diet of certain percentages of food types and nutrients, it's about enjoying the food that you eat, but not TOO MUCH. That said, I feel it is very healthy to know more about how your body works and the role that food and exercise play to make it work more efficiently, so, please continue to peruse the gymprofessor site.

Below are a list of related sub-categories that may be of interest:

Key Nutrients
Nutrient Analysis
Diet
Food Pyramid
Balanced Plate
Traffic Light Food Labelling
Food for Growth
Food for Energy
Glycemic Index
Calories

Vitamins

Vitamins help to regulate our metabolic processes. Vitamins were named by a Polish biochemist called Kazimierz Funk (that's a cool name!). Vitamins being the abbreviation of vita amines - 'vita' meaning life in Latin and 'amin' as he believed them to be amines (an organic compound that contains a basic nitrogen atom with a lone pair), which unfortunately we now know to be untrue (perhaps a better name would've been Funksters). Anyway, as touched upon with minerals, a lack of vitamins through our dietary sources can result in related problems. An extreme example of the effects of a prolonged lack of certain vitamins within our diet, is the disease Scurvy, which is due to a deficiency of vitamin C. Scurvy was a common disease with seafarers of old with limited food sources.

Fat-soluble vitamins - A, D, E & K - are able to be stored in the body, whereas water-soluble vitamins - B & C - are not.

To find out more about the following, follow this blog or visit the Gym Professor website.

Vitamin A (Retinol)
Vitamin B Complex
Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid)
Vitamin D (Calciferol)
Vitamin E (Tocopherol)
Vitamin K
Choline & Inositol
PABA

Diet

For many of you diet will mean losing weight, toning up and burning fat, rather than just your maintenance daily eating habits. There are many different diets out there - Atkins Diet, South Beach Diet, Zone Diet, Cabbage Soup Diet, Ketogenic Diet etc. - all of which have the simple aim of you consuming less calories (food energy), therefore, causing a negative energy balance & you losing weight.

Different diets present different problems, some more so than others, which we'll discuss within each subject matter. The fundamental flaw of most peoples diet plans (or rather, lack of plan) is both EFFICIENCY and SUSTAINABILITY. For example, if you did not alter your activity levels, but cut out a couple of meals a day (say 600 calories less a day), initially you'll lose weight through causing a negative energy balance, but before long this will become your maintenance calories (level energy balance), as your metabolism (body's processes) will slow. The reason, not having to work as hard to break down food as regularly and correcting its self to your new calorie intake - your body's very clever! Subsequently, if you were to resume what you considered normal eating, you're likely to put on more weight than you started with. Not quite what you wanted to read - there being no quick fix, but, if thought out properly, there's no reason you cannot achieve realistic diet & physique goals. Below are helpful pages and popular diet subjects.

Visit the Gym Professor web site to find out more about the following subjects:

How do I make my body more EFFICIENT?
How do I SUSTAIN weight loss throughout my diet?
Popular Diets
Healthy Eating
PERSONALISED DIET PLANS
Fat Burners & Metabolism Boosters
SAMPLE DIET PLAN