Title: Myth Busting: Not Eating Makes you Tired and Hungry?
1Myth Busting Not Eating Makes you Tired and
Hungry ?
2- Scholar Nassim Nicholas Taleb said, Nature
builds things that are anti-fragile. In the case
of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow
stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the
gym also makes you stronger, because you subject
your body to stressors and gain from them.
3The Danger of the Energy Obsession
- Most people equate food with energy. We are
bombarded with diet plans designed to guide us on
how to eat for maximum energy. Were told if we
want to get our energy up, eat something. We have
a market saturated with energy bars and energy
snacks.Thinking of food in terms of energy is
somewhat of an oversimplification. Rather, we
must think of food as a fuel that our bodies may
convert to energy.
4The Danger of the Energy Obsession Cont.
Think of a car. Simply filling a car with fuel
doesnt make it go. Rather, there is a whole
complicated process whereby the engine converts
the fuel into energy and makes the car go. It is
the same with the human body. We have a rather
complex engine of our own that takes the fuel we
give it and converts it into energy. Consider
again a car and filling the tank with fuel. If
youve filled the tank and youre going to drive
twenty miles into town and back, all the rest of
the gas in the tank is actually weighing the car
down, causing it to run less efficiently. So it
is with our bodies. We need to give our bodies
enough fuel to convert to the energy we need, but
anything in excess of that is simply slowing us
down, causing us to run less efficiently.
5The Danger of the Energy Obsession Cont.
- After eating a meal, it is not unusual for a
person to feel a bit sluggish while the body
digests, but what about after that? Some of the
food will be burned off as energy, but everything
eaten in excess of what the body needed to
convert into energy is stored and often turns to
fat. Once energy is converted to fat in the body,
our bodies are woefully inefficient at converting
it back to energy. - Eating beyond the amount of fuel your body needs
is slowing you down in the short term and the
long term. Unless you can match your bodys
intake to your bodys energy expenditure, your
body cannot achieve optimal efficiency. - A study from the University of Colorado Anschutz
Medical Campus, Aurora stated it quite
succinctly The basic components of energy
balance include energy intake, energy
expenditure, and energy storage. Body weight can
change when energy intake is not equal to energy
expenditure over a given period of time.
6When Less Really Is More
- While it may seem counter-intuitive, when human
beings consume less, our bodies actually run much
more efficiently. Energy levels increase and the
body enters a higher stage of mental and physical
acuity.
7When Less Really Is More Cont.
- Overeating overtaxes the bodys resources. As
your body focuses on processing a deluge of food
with which its been bombarded, resources are
taken away from other areas. Blood flow is
diverted to the alimentary canal, reducing blood
flow to other parts of the body. The pancreas is
hard at work secreting insulin. The liver and
kidneys exert great effort to filter the blood.
Hormone levels are increased. The body feels
tired and the mind feels dull. - Harvard Medical School conducted a study that
showed when animals were placed on a
calorie-restricted diet, they thrived. They had
higher levels of energy. Their minds were sharper
and their bodies were in an elevated state of
readiness.
8The Drive of the Hunter
- You may have heard stories of early man and his
need to hunt for food. When man was starving, he
had to find food. He needed his brain to
function, he needed his red blood cells he
needed everything to keep firing to allow him to
be sharp and focused as he went on the hunt. - While in that state of hunger, the hunter found
his energy levels were higher, his emotions were
well- controlled, he was laser focused, his body
was cleansing and repairing itself, and he was
more agile than ever as he awaited the only real
man versus food challenge that ever existed in
the history of mankind.
9The Drive of the Hunter Cont.
- Early man ran at optimal efficiency precisely
because he was hungry, not in spite of it.
Everything in his body was heightened for the
hunt. Starvation became a force that propelled
early man to a higher plane. As a society
saturated with food, we see hunger as something
very negative that must be satiated immediately. - A fasting state can provide the same positive
results that it did for the early hunters. It
allows the body to cleanse itself, repair organ
systems, and it heightens the body and all its
senses. While we must not perpetually starve
ourselves, we can begin to consider that an
occasional fast along with consistently reduced
eating habits can greatly improve the quality of
our health and lives.
10Make a Better Choice Today
- As you move forward in your life, make a choice
today to consider mindful eating. Eat only when
hungry. When hungry, eat until you are only 80
full. Eat energy-sustaining food that your body
can easily metabolize, such as yogurt, berries,
peanut butter, lean meats, whole grains, leafy
green vegetables and nuts. Be conscious of how
you feel when you eat, and avoid foods that weigh
you down and make you feel sluggish. Give your
body high octane fuel and youll run as lean and
efficiently as the fastest race car out there.
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