Improve Your Diet and Increase Your Fitness!

More and more people are deciding enough is enough and doing something to improve their diet and increase their fitness levels. Perhaps this is in part to those health magazine covers with men and women who have desirable, health and fit looking bodies. This desire is being catered for with an increase in ever type of health and fitness club imaginable and the sales of home fitness equipment is on the rise.

Increasingly we are being targeted at home as well with fitness and health product advertising and sponsorship found on TV. The way we eat and the types of food we consume also play a major role in our overall health and fitness so the two should really be emphasized as a joint effort. Staying fit is one part of the equation but by eating the right foods, our fitness levels will increase as will the body’s ability to renew damages to muscle, cells and skin. The subject is broad and many different, often opposing, opinions are aimed at us and because of this it is often confusing deciding on which course of action to take like the high-carb versus the high-fat debate which seems to continue without being resolved.

The first thing you need to know would be the fundamental differences between these two diet approaches because as the name implies, high-carb diets concentrates on taking in carbohydrate-rich foods while high fat diets endorses fat-rich foods. The high carbohydrate diets are good for storing glycogen in our muscles for when we need to perform short lived but very fast exercise as opposed to cardiovascular.

5 times more calories than carbohydrates and proteins alike while studies also show that it takes the body 24 calories to metabolize carbohydrates while it only takes 3 to burn down fat. So according to the experts, it doesn’t matter which you choose, as long as you don’t follow both at the same time, unless weight gain is what you want.

All this is fine if you are exercising regularly but a diet fitness regime is also about reducing the body fat. Just to add another factor to the mix; the success of a diet program relies on it being devised for the person it relates to so factors like their medical history, tastes in foods and lifestyle must be taken into account.

Just losing weight is not the issue as many overweight individuals manage to do this but if the diet doesn’t suit them they pile it all back on, so the trick is to organize a diet that exactly fits your needs and maintain a moderation to what you eat. A person must be careful not to leave out important nutrients plus other substances necessary for healthy body functioning and health organizations are clear about the amounts of nutrients an individual should have in the body.