03/14/2020
With the outbreak of the coronavirus, Toxassociates, Inc. is now offering a coronavirus testing, and also available are hand sanitizers. In fighting back on this virus, this article of Weight Maintenance is the best Diet will help strengthen your immune system, and promote an overall healthier body system.
WEIGHT MAINTENANCE
Every living things including cats, mice, roses, chinchilla rabbit, mongoose, apple tree, Asians, coral reef, amoeba, bacteria, President Franklin Roosevelt, Siberian Tiger, Madonna, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and lots more need food to survive. Food provides energy, proteins for muscle building and DNA synthesis, immunity, cell growth and body development, and much more.
Eating the right types of foods is important in weight maintenance, and overall body health. Foods are categorized based on their function, physical and physiological properties, and chemical attributes. There are six basic categories of foods or food groups including carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins, minerals, hydration, and fats.
Carbohydrates
These are foods such as bread, rice, pasta, sugars, (mainly glucose), potatoes, and other starchy foods, that give you that give you energy you need to walk, run, breathe, food digestion, fight disease, and many others. These foods are like gasoline in a car that is needed to make the car move. When the car is low on gas, you fill it up so it will keep running. When you start feeling weak, lose concentration, etc. you need to eat foods that provide energy, in this case carbohydrate food types.
Why we need carbohydrates
Carbohydrates, as mentioned before provides energy and other important cellular functions. It is a more efficient fuel source (as glucose) during catabolic process, or breaking down of foods to be used by cells for energy. Think of gasoline in your car, which is a source of energy through chemical and electrical processes during engine (non-diesel engine) combustion that makes the car move. You can also use oil (vegetable or engine oil) as an energy source, but it wouldn’t burn efficiently because the engine is not designed to burn oil. Interestingly, a catabolic process is the opposite of anabolic process or a building process, for example, an anabolic steroid such as Stanozolol where it is involved in building muscles to increase speed and stamina of an athlete.
Although carbohydrates is a great source of energy to these cells of our body, if too much is consumed (about 61 % more) it is converted to fats. So try not to eat too much of those delicious pizzas, pastas, and other starchy foods. If you are craving for these foods, have some bananas and/or nuts of any kind, because it will lower your feel good chemicals (endorphin) to these types of foods.
Last, carbohydrates are involved in DNA synthesis, mainly synthesis of nucleotides as the platform for DNA and RNA synthesis. Think of that fabulous, and awesome chocolate cake that most of us love. In order to make the cake, you need flour which is like the nucleotide that is needed to make DNA and RNA, or this case to make the chocolate cake.
Proteins
Proteins are compounds found in meats such as beef, chicken, fish, eels, frog legs, lambs, salmon, beans, Alaskan crab, hogs, lobster, and lots more. Meat consumption such as beef, pork, and chicken in the United States as of 2019 was approximately 250 pounds per person per year. Compared to China or Japan at about 90 lbs. per person per year, or even more interesting is India with an approximate amount of 10 pounds of meat per person per year.
Proteins play an important role in proper body functions, growth and development of tissues, fluid balance, enzyme production such as protease to break down protein, provides rigidity and structure by synthesis of collagen that protects tendons and ligaments, and provides immunity by production of antibodies.
Fats
Fats are basically oils that are very important source of energy, brain development and protection, synthesis of many types of hormones from cholesterol which serves as a template or platform for making hormones such as testosterone, provides insulation from heat loss, a natural moisturizer for skin to protect it from ultraviolet radiation from the sun, a healthier baby, and much more.
Good sources of better fats are from plants such as olives, sunflower, grapes, and others. Animal fats are also important, because they contain higher amount of stearic acid (about 30 % compared to plant fats of about less than 5 %), which protects the skin from water loss, and provides a barrier from chemical and other liquids containing potential disease causing microorganisms exposure.
Vitamins and Minerals
Vitamins are substances that the body needs for growth and development, proper cell function of vital organs such as heart, kidneys, etc. There are many types of vitamins from A through K, and each type has a different function in body health. For example, vitamin A is need for proper eye vison, while vitamin K provides a healthy blood and is involved in blood clotting from injury.
Minerals are chemical elements such as Calcium, Iron, Zinc, Copper, Potassium, Sodium, and others. Each mineral have different functions in the body. For example, calcium is important in the development and formation of bones, while iron is needed in the transport of oxygen by binding oxygen in the hemoglobin (a protein found in red blood cells).
Hydration
As the name implies, hydration the taking up of liquids mainly water that our cells and tissues such as heart, lungs, kidneys, and others. Our body contains about 70 % water, because water serves as a medium for nutrient transport, chemical reactions in cells, blood volume from plasma, and other vital functions. Keeping your body hydrated is probably the most important part of a diet, because it serves as a foundation for all cell, tissues, and organ development and growth, and function.
Why do weight maintenance?
Now that all the food groups such as fats, proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins, etc are introduced, why do we need a weight maintenance diet? It’s simple. A well balanced diet that consists of all the food groups mentioned above is healthier and easier on our body. This is because each food group has a different purpose of providing energy from carbohydrates, muscle building, pH balance, rigidity from proteins, bone growth and development from calcium minerals, proper eye vision from vitamin A, and water as a hydrating agent.
Having only one food group, for example, carbohydrates such as bread, pizza will provide energy, but not be enough to provide all the necessary nutrients that your body needs to carry out all the necessary functions such as cell repair, capable immune system to fight potential infections, cancer growth inhibition and prevention, and other important functions.
A protein diet can provide cell growth and development, fluid balance, DNA synthesis, and other needed nutrients, but may still be lacking on critical nutrients minerals of calcium, zinc, iron, copper, and vitamins and other nutrients from fruits and vegetables that your organs such as heart, liver, skin, kidney, lungs needs to carry out all necessary functions of maintaining pH balance, removal of toxins, break down of excessive fats, dna repair, stronger bones and tooth, maintain constant heart beat, hormone balance, and many more important promotion of great health.
A diet that consists of only one food group such as protein, is probably fine on short term. You can do it for just a little bit, kinda like eating a banana or munching or a bread or butter until the actual dinner with all the food groups represented comes along.
The Body is an Amazing Machine
A one group diet is fine temporarily, but the body has an incredible way to detect if something is missing in your diet. For example, if you eat a lot meat and no vegetables, or bread, and others the body will crave for those other foods that are lacking in your diet. In other words, your body will tell you “I need more vitamins, carbohydrates so I can give you more efficient energy, and more enzyme such as lipase to break down fats, and so on”.
A Balanced Diet. Eating foods from all food groups. Gaining Weight. Losing Weight. Maintaining Weight.
A slight gain in weight from your ideal weight, probably may not be that bad. As an example, if your ideal weight based on your height, age is 150 lbs., but your true weight presently is 154 lbs., therefore, a 4 lbs increase in weight. However, if your weight three weeks ago was 150 lbs., and your present weight is 164 lbs., then this will raise a concern on a large difference in weight.
What to do to bring weight down back to ideal weight
First, take a step back on what led you to gain weight. Are you eating unhealthier foods such as 1/4 or ½ pounds burger with fries 3 times a day, overly stressed from work, worrying too much, drinking too much pop, indulging more on one type of food group, ignoring fruits and vegetables, etc. Once you’ve identified where the problem is, then make a plan on how to get your weight back on track.
Here are some suggestions;
Getting your weight down to its ideal weight should be a gradual process. Ideally, however long it took you to gain weight, should also be the same time to lose it. For example, if it took 3 months to gain weight, then it should also take about the same time to lose it. This is because your body needs to adjust to the changes gradually, until the physiological processes of digesting food, storage of fats, synthesis of hormones, etc. normalizes. Thus, your body will experience less stress in changes in weight and restoration of your weight to an ideal weight will be more long term.
Try Eating a Well Balanced Diet
Eating a well balance diet will help with getting your weight back to where it should be. It may not be easy at first, but in time your body will start getting use to it. You have to give it a shot, and stick with it.
For a well balance diet, some if not all the food group at least 5 out of 6) must be represented. See the following percentage of each food group that must be consumed to get back on track with your ideal weight, and maintain it for as long as possible.
Carbohydrates - bread, rice, pasta
Proteins - pork and/or beef less than 10 %. Try to eat more poultry, and sea foods (fish, shrimp, oysters, and others)
Fats - mostly from vegetable such as sunflower, olive, and others. These contain more vitamins, and lots of omega-3
Minerals and vitamins- These can come from many sources including fruits and vegetables, beans, meats, and others
Fruits and vegetables - definitely must have these everyday. Like the old saying “If you’re gonna have red (meat), you better have green (veggies, fruits)”.
Liquids - Beer and wine in moderation. And most definitely water. Try to limit drinking pop, juice that contain too much sugar, and others.
Try to stay away from “High Fructose Corn Syrup”. The body cannot metabolize this sugar, and it’s converted to mostly fats.
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