Why Nutrition Is So Important
You can’t out-exercise a bad diet. Whether your fitness goal is building muscles, boosting energy, or losing weight, your nutrition plays a vital role. It provides the building blocks for everything from hormones that burn fat and help build muscles. A healthy diet is lower in calories and higher in nutrients necessary for every cell in your body to function. If you consume too many empty, high-calorie foods, you could exercise all day and not lose weight.
Obesity is the leading cause of preventable illness and preventable deaths.
The average American weighs far more than they did in the 1950s. Over the last 60 years, obesity has tripled. It drains the healthcare system of valuable dollars and destroys the quality of life of those who experience it. Part of the problem comes from inactivity. People use labor-saving devices and spend time in front of a screen today rather than in activities that burn calories. The real culprit is nutrition. There is an avalanche of new snack food and fast foods. People aren’t eating as healthy, and they’re eating more.
Good nutrition helps you stay healthy mentally and physically.
A poor diet negatively affects your body. A diet high in sugar does more than add pounds. It makes the immune system less effective and causes chronic inflammation. Chronic inflammation leads to problems with auto-immune diseases, heart disease, and diabetes. Your diet also affects your mental health. It impacts your gut microbiome, which affects your mental health.
You’ll save money and time at the doctor by eating healthier.
Being sick or having a chronic disease saps more than your energy. It drains your pocketbook, too. The US Department of Agriculture found that eating a healthier diet could prevent many conditions and save a minimum of $71 billion. That doesn’t include the lost time from work or the productive time you lose sitting in the doctor’s office. The increased incidence of illness continues to make healthcare costs rise.
Increase your energy with a healthy diet.
Your body needs the right energy to function its best. If you’re living on sugary treats and simple carbohydrates, it’s like putting sugar in the gas tank of your car. It can clog up the works and cause damage. Every nutrient is necessary for some function. Healthy fats carry fat soluble vitamins, are vital to the production of hormones, and help burn fat. Protein helps build muscles and carbs provide energy. They all contain other nutrients, such as vitamins and phytochemicals.
- A diet high in sugar and simple carbs gives you quick energy that drops as dramatically as it rises, leaving you exhausted.
- A study in a violent prison in England changed the food by increasing prison food with omega-3 fatty acids and reducing those with omega-6. It cut violent occurrences dramatically.
- You’ll feel younger when you eat healthier, but you’ll also look younger, too. Eating the right foods can slow the signs of aging and keep your skin firm and elastic.
- If you participate in sports, you’ll do better when you eat healthier and time your meals and snacks. Eating a pre and post-workout snack improves your session and jump-starts the recovery process.
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