Is Your Body Using The Food That You Consume?

It has been said that the average person dies with three pounds of undigested meat in his or her stomach. That is a rather startling assertion, which is very difficult if not impossible to prove. But it is one which raises an important consideration in weight loss.

How much of what a person eats is actually converted into energy and then eliminated? Some of what is eaten? All of it? How can one tell, except through how one feels?

In an ideal situation we would only get hungry when we needed food to fuel our activities and maintain our physiology. Unfortunately, we experience hunger pangs at given times of the day. Do these actually signal a need for nourishment? Or, do they signal a need for emotional gratification?

These are questions that each person needs to answer for him or herself. Quite clearly, eating for the sake of eating will result in the accumulation of excess weight. Nevertheless, not eating in the case of actual hunger will result in atrophy or the diminution of energy.

In our country, few are in the starvation category. Granted, there are some, and they have severe nutritional needs which must be met to insure their mere survival. But most of us have enough to eat so that we may survive. Our problem for the most part is in being unable to stay away from consuming too much. Sadly, the need to do so is experienced in our stomachs. WE feel hungry. In other words, there is real hunger without a real need for food.



Why does this happen? There are numerous explanations, but the one which seems most likely is counter-intuitive. People experience hunger because they need the nutritional elements of their normal daily diets, which are deficient in food value. That is, the foods which comprise the normal breakfast, lunch and dinner do little more than fill a person up only to have him or her again experience hunger a few hours later. In other words, they do not meet the physical demands of the body. That is why they often times been referred to as empty calories.

As if that were not enough these food do not easily digest, thereby becoming converted into energy. Consequently, the meal which was eaten to produce energy and repair tissue, neither builds the body nor fuels it for daily activity. Instead, it merely one up, while more permanently slowing one down.

Therefore the first things necessary for a weight loss lifestyle are vitamins to insure food value and a digestive enzymes to convert food into energy. One of the easiest ways to obtain both is through the daily consumption of a multi-vitamin and vegetable juice such as that which is derived from processing carrots. Without these, one is doing little more than temporarily alleviating hunger, adding excess pounds of weight through the accumulation of food which never converts into energy.

Get wealthy while getting healthy. It's the wise thing to do.