Nutrition and Physical Fitness
Nutrition and physical fitness go together like bread and butter and if you want to be as healthy as possible then it is highly important that you pay equal attention to both. Here we will look at how the interplay works and why it’s so important to look after your nutrition if you want to be able to describe yourself as fit and healthy.
People say that we are what we eat, but very few people know just how true this is. The reality is that all the materials our body uses to fuel itself, to build and replace tissue and to regulate the delicate chemical balances inside our brains and blood; all of it comes from our nutrition. The most obvious example of this is protein. Protein is made up of amino acids which are carbon compounds. In other words when we eat protein this is where we get the meet that our body needs to create itself. Our body builds skin, muscle, brain matter, bones and everything else by recombining the amino acids in meat from other animals and plants (to a lesser extent).
If you don’t get your protein then you won’t be able to repair and maintain tissue in other words if you aren’t eating correct amounts of high quality protein, then you’ll find that your wounds don’t heal, that your skin and hair looks unhealthy and that you suffer a range of other problems. For those trying to build muscle it is particularly important to eat more protein as it will help us to have the matter needed to build those bigger muscles.
Likewise what we eat obviously effects our energy levels and our feelings of energy and alertness. If you aren’t eating enough carbohydrates then your body won’t have anything to burn for fuel, and what will happen as a result is that it will start looking elsewhere for things to burn – to our fat stores initially and then to our muscle and eventually to our organs. This means that we will end up wasting away and feeling constantly lethargic – and certainly not being a picture of health.
On the other hand though eating too many carbs can also be very bad for us. This then means that we have more carbohydrates than our body needs so it will begin storing the energy that’s left over as fat. That then in turn means that our heart must pump harder to get the blood around our body and that can cause circulation problems, lack of breath and other problems. It can also increase your likelihood of developing diabetes wherein you will have too much sugar in your blood stream which can damage nerves and organs and can be very serious.
Consuming too much fat can be bad for you too as it clogs your arteries and your veins and creates build ups of ‘arterial plaque’ which means that your blood can’t get as easily around your body increases the chances of heart attack or stroke and often causing angina.
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