19 July, 2009

Stored Energy vs. Useable Energy continued...

As mentioned in the previous article, the human body is designed for both prosperous times and times of famine. In times of famine, the main fuel source is sugar, and in times of prosperity the main fuel source is fat. The way your body determines whether it is a time of prosperity or famine is not by how much you have in your refrigerator, unfortunately. It is not even based on how many or how few calories you take in as some teach. It is actually based on the abundance (or lack) of building blocks (vitamins, minerals, phytochemicals, amino acids, etc.) that are present in your body. If you can load your body up with the nutrients that you lack, it will change from famine-mode to prosperity-mode and begin using fat as its primary fuel source.

Far too many people have only been told that vitamins are important and have not been educated on botanicals, phytochemicals, or amino acids. Vitamins will help you to not get sick in most cases (if the vitamins consumed are absorbable. Lab produced vitamins have about a 2% absorption rate.) But the other building blocks, especially amino acids and botanicals will transform you from a sugar-burner to a fat-burner.

Besides gaining fat, and being unable to lose it, there are other unfortunate problems associated with being a sugar burner which we'll talk about next...

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