- Eat meals and snacks at regular times every day (Possible
Strategies)
- Less tendency to over eat next meal
- Particularly if meal is higher fat
- Less probability to eat easily accessible calorie dense snacks
- Regular eating may keep metabolism high
- Particularly digestion of higher fiber foods
- Thermoneogenesis: calories converted to body heat
- Maintains energy level throughout day
- Potentially higher caloric expenditure during activity
- Eat high carbohydrates meal (with protein) very soon after
exercise (Guidelines)
- Improves post workout recovery (Niles 2001)
- Faster rate of muscle glycogen
re-synthesis
- 50% more glycogen can be stored (Friedman 1991)
- Improved performance in subsequent exercise
- Less muscle damage
- Increased protein synthesis
- Nearly 3 fold increase (Levenhagen 2001)
- Decreases post exercise cortisol levels
- Increase lean muscle mass (Esmarck 2001, Holm 2004)
- Decreases risk of injury (Flakoll 2004)
- Eat fruits or vegetables
- See Vegetable and Fruit Color Codes
- Eat cruciferous vegetables
- Natural compound called sulforaphane (found in cruciferous
vegetables such as cabbage and Brussels sprouts, but especially
broccoli) acts as a cancer-preventive agent. (Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine).
- Indole-3-Carbinol (I-3-C)
- Eat high fiber foods (Possible
Strategies)
- Less tendency to eat calorie dense foods
- By filling up on vegetables, fruits, and whole grains
- Fiber can decrease the absorption of dietary
fat
- Fiber acts a barrier in the intestines
- May help stabilize blood sugar levels.
- Helps prevent constipation by adding mass to stool
- May help prevent certain cancers
- Make lower fat and healthier fat choices (Possible
Strategies)
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