We live in a day and age where being physically fit is a goal for most. Most people associate self worth with appearance, and in turn look to fitness models, bodybuilders, and the like as being the picture of perfection in health and fitness. Some people even take drastic measures when it comes to weight-loss, gaining muscle, or trying to lose body fat. We now have weight watchers, atkins, protein diets, and the list goes on and on. The real truth is that, DIETS ARE NOT HEALTHY!
Let's take for instance a low carb diet. Sure you may lose weight, but at what cost? Low carb diets simply flush your body of water, muscle, and a little bit of fat. So with this sort of diet, you lose all together. You lose water, (which can be detrimental if bodily fluids become unbalanced) you lose muscle, ( which is absolutely terrible because the less muscle you have the slower you metabolism becomes) and a little bit of fat (which is a good thing). The high protein diet is not to great either.
Many bodybuilder would have people to believe that the more protein you eat is the more muscle you gain. THIS VIEW IS TOTALLY INCORRECT IN EVERY WAY! In fact when an individual does a high protein diet, and lowers the carbs, and healthy fats below daily percentages (which varies according to each individual) the body has a way of using protein as energy, as oppose to it doing its job to repair the microscopic tears in the muscle fibers (that's only one of its functions, its also involved in hair, nails, and is part of every cell in the human body). This is just a few of the many so-called diets.
The TRUTH is that the only way to lose weight, and be in good health is to eat a completely healthy diet, which consist of eating from the six classes of nutrients (carbs, protein, fats, water, vitamins, and minerals). That's it folks...lol. Now that's the flat out truth. The things is that your nutrients have to be balanced. The basic percentage for a healthy person trying to maintain a healthy lifestyle would be 55-65% carbs (healthy carbs like whole grain pasta, whole grain rice, lentils, whole grain breads that are high in fiber, and the like) 10-15% protein, and 15-30 % HEALTHY FATS (walnuts, almonds, cashews, olive oil, and grapeseed oil), but no more than 30%.
For a person trying to lose weight I would recommend cutting back the carbs to about 45-50% of the daily calories, because carbs are really the only source that the body uses as energy. Most people cry out that you must do low carbs to tap into stored body. This is untrue, and this misunderstanding comes from not really knowing why fat is stored in the body. Fat is stored for survival purposes mainly, and that's why its almost 99.9% impossible to burn pure body fat without doing some form of interval training (you must work to your peak of intensity, and the have small interval breaks.)
That's how you tap into the stored body fat, and if you dont have enough carbs( muscle and liver glycogen) you'll never be able to reach a level of intensity where oxygen is flowing, and this is extremely important because without oxygen flowing you cant tap into the fat. Its just that simple. That explains why you can walk for three hours everyday and lose no fat, but you will burn calories stripping off water and muscle. So the truth is that you must eat balanced meals, and exercise properly to achieve a healthy, and beautiful physique.
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