Fitness and Health: A Practical Guide to Nutrition, Exercise and Avoiding Disease

Support and Protection.Stored fat offers physical sup- port and protection to vital body parts, including the organs and glands ...

ing calcium into the bones and muscles. Without this action, calcium levels in bones and muscles can be reduced resulting in the ...

Certain foods can stimulate brown fat and increase overall fat- burning. Eating several times a day, five to six smaller healthy ...

the nape of the neck. These are important areas to keep from over- heating and cool after exercise. (Low body temperatureis asso ...

10. Balancing Your Fats Now that we’ve discussed the importance of natural dietary fats for human performance and the necessity ...

Monounsaturated fat is also very stable. As discussed later, polyunsaturated fat is easily oxidized and can form dangerous oxy- ...

in vegetable oil, with the highest levels contained in safflower, peanut, corn, canola and soy oil, and many processed foods inc ...

acid does not seem to be such a health problem. (Palm-kernel oil is also high in palmitic acid, but palm-fruit oil is not, and a ...

learn, for instance, that the fat in an average steak is about half monounsaturated and half saturated, with a small amount of p ...

stroke and heart disease. The right balance of eicosanoids can pre- vent, postpone, and even treat these conditions. Eicosanoid ...

While group 1 eicosanoids from A fats can produce powerful health effects, there are potential problems. One is that conversion ...

to the common use at home, vegetable oils are often used in packaged foods and in restaurants. The C fats are termed omega-3, an ...

imately an equal ratio of A and C fats; in this case, some of the A fats will convert to B fats.) Fat imbalance typically occurs ...

aged joint, or an irritated stomach. The reddish, swollen, hot area of a cut finger is an example of this normal inflammatory pr ...

In addition to controlling inflammation and pain, eicosanoids have many other important functions. Both groups 1 and 3 decrease ...

! Over age 50. ! Blood tests show increased triglycerides or cholesterol. ! Carbohydrate intolerance. ! Seasonal allergies. ! In ...

You must first get over the idea that the less fat the better, or a diet that’s 10 percent or 20 percent fat is ideal. Actually, ...

11. The Power of Protein Once you’ve determined the right amount of carbohydrates for your body, and balanced your fats, proper ...

Protein is essential for maintaining neurotransmitters — the chemical messengers used by the brain, the rest of the nervous sys ...

accurately reflect all aspects of protein breakdown. This is one reason many earlier studies on protein requirements showed such ...