Health Foods

Untold Nutritional Secrets
by Gary Mathews

A good understanding of nutrition and how to use the information
will be extremely rewarding for anyone. We can all prevent
disease and fight infection utilizing a powerful medicine
'Food'. Using nutrition and supplementing your diet is the
key to fat loss and muscle gain. Have a look at these Nutritional
Secrets and discover how to stay disease free, feel great, look
good and live longer.

Lets take a look:

How Much Protein Do I Need - Protein is a normal part of out diet; a nutrient widely
distributed among animal and plant foods, and it plays many essential roles in the
body. Dietary protein has two possible fates - it can be either used in growth and
repair or burned for energy, like carbohydrate and fat. Sedentary person: 0.75
grams/lb/day, Recreational athlete: 1.00 grams/lb/day, Serious athlete: 2.00
grams/lb/day.

Protein Cycling - Since strength training greatly increases the rate at which protein is
broken down in the body, it follows that 0.75gms per Pound is inadequate. On the
other hand to increase the intake of protein to say, 3.0gm per Pound straight away
would trigger mechanisms to eliminate the excess protein.

One way to overcome this is to increase the protein in steps until a maximum
efficiency point is reached and then it is drastically