Sentences with phrase «food for energy rather»

When insulin levels spike the body can not use it's own fat stores for fuel, also known as training the body to burn fat, instead insulin spikes and drops force the metabolism to rely on food for energy rather than its own fat stores.

This is why if you eat a carb - containing food before training, your body is going to be using primarily the sugar from that food for energy rather than your bodyfat AND, since insulin and blood sugar are present, your body is in STORAGE mode, not fat - burning mode.

Not exact matches

This means you burn stored body fat for energy, rather than being dependent on sugars from food.

Fasting will help stabilise blood sugar levels and force your body to draw on its own fat reserves for energy, rather than being dependent on a constant stream of food.

If you feed your toddler whole foods (where you are not using refined products but rather the whole grain or vegetable) then you will find that they will get much more energy and be sustained for longer periods of time than if you use refined high energy foods which have very little nutritional value.

Rather than corn or wheat, this grain - free dog food uses legumes, sweet potatoes, and potatoes as nutrient - rich sources of carbohydrates for energy and fiber for easy digestion.

Rather than corn, wheat, or soy, this dry dog food uses rice, barley, and oats as sources of complex carbohydrates for energy.

Scientists have uncovered some of the genetic basis for weight - related diseases, such as the discovery of a gene that appears to cause energy from food to be stored as fat rather than be burned.

A growing brain requires nutrient - rich, energy - packed food, so rather than foraging for fruits and vegetables, our human ancestors began eating meat.

When you change your eating and lifestyle habits for good and realize that being healthy truly is a way of life, you are rewarded with so many incredible benefits to your body — it becomes easier for you to lose weight, you're able to maintain a healthy weight without restricting food or resorting to liquids only or taking out major food groups (unless, of course, you have an allergy or intolerance), you feel increased and sustained energy throughout the day, your digestion becomes more regular, your mood is more elevated, you have control of your cravings rather than vice versa, and so, so much more.

Rather, the goal of ChooseMyPlate is to help Americans make smarter food choices from every food group represented, strike a balance between food and physical activity that helps to use the food for energy, stay within suggested daily calorie needs, and to get more nutrition from the calories that are consumed.

In addition, the mice on the scheduled high - fat diet exhibited a unique metabolic state in which the fats they ingested were not stored, but rather utilized for energy at times when no food was available, such as between meals.

Therefore, insulin's primary role is not to lower your blood sugar, but rather to store this extra energy as fat for future needs when food may not be available.

Since we all have to eat for energy try to eat healthy food that will give you the most energy possible rather than draining your energy.

Advantages of a Low Glycemic Foods Diet One of the major benefits of a low glycemic foods diet is that your body uses the carbohydrates you consume for energy rather than storing it.

The reason for this response, Gordon says, was twofold: Firmicutes bacteria transplanted from the fat mice produced more of the enzymes that helped the animals extract more energy from their food, and the bacteria also manipulated the genes of the normal mice in ways that triggered the storage of fat rather than its breakdown for energy.

I'm new to the ramifications and specific processes involved, but am pursuaded this is the likely model for future publication projects that most benefit the first person on the food chain: the writers / artists who conceived them, who are trying to make some kind of living doing what they do best, hoping to find an audience for their work as a * first * resort rather than wearing themselves out with full - time day jobs of no comparable skill or education preparation — but that pay the bills, maybe — and that leave little energy and reserves for their art.

3) If you are trying to smooth out fluctuations in inflation, wouldn't it be better to use the median or a trimmed mean, rather than ignore data, particularly data that minimizes the effect of inflation for households for which food and energy are a large portion of their budgets?

Given the state of the climate all here [well, except for 1 or 2] are concerned with, what is the likelihood those reserves will grow rather than dwindle, considering the fact that the global population continues to increase and we're using our food to produce energy?

Sure, let these under - developed countries grow crops for US energy, rather than growing crops of real benefit to their own independence, such as food crops.

For Brazil, international climate negotiations should not be focused on discussing REDD and other market - based mechanisms, but rather on the transition to a new production, distribution and consumption model based on agroecology, on a solidarity - based economic approach, and on a diversified and decentralized energy matrix capable of ensuring food security and sovereignty.

And when they are, cities can perform the essential service of 21st century urbanism: creating regenerative buildings and landscapes that produce more good for more people rather than places that are merely less bad: More clean energy, more fresh water, more fertile soil, more food, more productivity, more biodiversity — more health and well - being for all.

But when debates are rehearsed simply for debate's sake, and when dogma, rather than reason, drives the conversation, it's necessary to re-examine the terms of our conflicts and the assumptions upon which they rest — such as the support of so many environmentalists for renewables over a zero - carbon energy source like nuclear, or the deep - seated resistance to biotechnology and machines when it comes to food production.

Growing crops for food rather than energy may be the most efficient way for U.S. Midwest farm land to contribute to combating climate change, say PNNL researchers.

Increased mismatches between food availability in ecosystems need to also include reduced energy demands needed to maintain body temperature, such as for marine mammals and the fact that plants and cold - blooded animals usually grow faster when warmer rather than colder.