Secret Ingredient to Weight Loss

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Your Protein Intake
Protein’s Hidden Weight Loss Trick
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People who eat normal healthy diets find it almost impossible to have a true deficit in amino acids. The problem is many people do not eat truly balanced diets. And doctors therefore see many people with the symptoms listed above.
I just shook my head and contemplated the state of our country’s medical care and the expectations our society now holds about treatments.
Feeling stressed? There’s a pill for that. Want to loose weight? There’s a pill for that too. Sadly,Yves Saint Laurent, many patients I see today have been ingrained to expect pills to solve their problems, especially for weight loss.
You may not know this,manolo blahnik, but amino acids are vital to your health. Yet they are misunderstood by most people. Amino acids are used by your body for muscle growth, metabolism,jimmy choo boots sale, and many other processes,laurent pumps, including helping as neurotransmitters for the brain. Amino acids can also be used primarily as a source of energy.
The Real Secret
I recently had a pleasant, 42-year-old, lady come into my office with complaints of fatigue. Additionally,cheap laurent sandals, she wanted to lose weight, and she was feeling a bit anxious. As I began explaining to her the key things she needed to do to boost her energy and loose weight in the process,cheap louboutin classic black, she stopped me with a sentence all too familiar.
Understanding Amino Acids
Most books tell you to consume 0.5 grams per pound of body weight. I personally think that is too low. Body builders commonly eat 1.5 to 2 grams per pound of body weight. That number is too high for the average person.
One problem with the symptoms of nervousness, anxiety and exhaustion is they are so common and so vague that many times it is hard to figure out their exact cause. Many doctors dread getting a patient’s chart where the chief complaints are "I'm exhausted all the time" or "I have anxiety".
You don’t have to be one of the people looking for the quick fix pill. You now know one big key to unlocking the secret to increased energy and weight loss. That key is protein. What you may not know is how much protein you need a day.
In reality,jimmy choo shoes, people do not need pills to fix all their problems – especially not weight loss. People just need to understand nutrition and how their body works.
Perhaps the lack of protein in our diets is why our society is seeing an increase in patients with symptoms of fatigue and nervousness.
A reasonable protein intake goal for a healthy individual who works out is 1 gram per pound of body weight. This means a 130 pound woman should be eating 130 grams of protein per day. Most women I see at my clinic are consuming less than 0.5 grams per pound of body weight.
Our bodies break amino acids down into essential and non-essential amino acids. The essential amino acids are obtained from the diet and cannot be made from other sources. In studies done by William Cumming Rose it was discovered that nervousness, exhaustion, and dizziness are the main symptoms of essential amino acid deficiency.
The nice thing about eating that many meals a day full of protein is you don’t have room to eat foods that are not good for you. You stay full. I often tell overweight patients to start eating better by concentrating on their protein intake and the carbs and fat will take care of themselves.
The solution my patient needed was changing her diet to include an increase in her protein intake, while also increasing her overall amount of physical exercise.
There are two reasons for this. The first reason we already discussed, most patients want a quick fix in the form of a pill to solve their problem. The second reason is training on the part of doctors. Doctors do not study nutrition in medical school, so doctors seldom counsel patients as to the root cause of their symptoms.
A great way to make sure you get the protein you need is to consume 5 to 6 small meals a day. For a 130 pound person,chanel shoes, that amount would be 20-25 grams of protein at each meal,christian louboutin sandals, or the equivalent of consuming a four ounce chicken breast, a protein shake, or fresh fish every 3 hours.
“Look doc,Jimmy Choo, I understand all that, but I just need some Xanax for my anxiety and some Adipex to help me lose weight,” she said.