Explaining The 3 Main Components Of Your Diet And Where Do We Find Them?

In order to understand how to maintain your weight or even lose weight, and to know what you are eating every day, it’s important to understand the basic elements of food: Proteins, carbohydrates and fats.

Lets first start off with proteins. Protein is the key element for anyone who is trying to gain muscle and reduce fat. After a hard workout session, your damaged muscles tissues need proteins in order to repair the muscle cells. Proteins are found in all kinds of foods, such as meats, eggs, dairy products, and nuts. However, a lot of meats also come with huge amounts of bad fats like for example the saturated fat in ground beef. Your diet should consist of about 40% of proteins.

The next one is carbohydrates. You have to know that carbohydrates are the main source of energy in your diet. There are 2 types of carbs:

Simple carbs and complex carbs. Simple carbs are easily digested and you should definitely try and avoid this type of carbohydrates. We can include in this category foods such as chocolates, candy, sodas or even white bread. Milk and fruits are also simple carbs, but they are better sources of carbs as they contain a lot of different minerals and vitamins. However, keep in mind that fruits are mostly made of sugar (fructose) and just an apple contains about 29 grams of carbohydrates, which is why you shouldn’t just eat fruits all day. Your daily calorie intake should consist of 40% of carbohydrates (mostly complex ones).

Now onto fats! First of all, the ingestion of fat should be moderate. Including fats in your diet is very important as a lack of fat can result in alternated brain functions and reduced endurance. Your daily calorie intake should consist of 20% of fat. There are a total of 4 different types of fat.

Trans fat: This type of fat should never be a part of your diet, and should therefore never be eaten. What it does is elevate the LDL (bad cholesterol) in your body and at the same time it lowers the HDL (good cholesterol). It’s the complete opposite of healthy eating, so make sure to avoid this type of fat. Foods which contain trans fats are packaged foods, margarine and especially fast foods.

Saturated fat: They are not as bad a trans fats, and should therefore not be excluded from your diet. It raises the “bad cholesterol”, but does nothing to your “good cholesterol”. However, they help to raise the testosterone level of men which is good for muscle building. Peanut butter, bacon and some oils contain this type of fat.

Polyunsaturated fat: This is the type of fat that we want in our diet. Omega 3 and 6 are part of this category. One of its functions is to lower LDL so it’s pretty important for us. Polyunsaturated fat sources are fish, nuts and oils.

Monounsaturated fats: Another good type of fat! We find huge amounts of it in olive oils and also in almonds.

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