you are what your body does with what you eat
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My talk on nutrition to students at New Jersey University. Describes how different nutrients affect your health.TRANSCRIPT
You Are What You Eat
You Are What Your Body Does
With What You EatBy Fredrick Hahn, ACE
Author of The Slow Burn Fitness Revolution andStrong Kids Healthy Kids
“The truth is easy to kill, but a lie well told is immortal.”
“Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.”
- Mark Twain
We gotta eat sumthin’!
Food
Fats and protein are essential to health and to life.
Carbohydrates are not.
National Institutes of Health Dietary Reference Intakes (DRI) report states:
“The lower limit of dietary carbohydrate compatible with life apparently is zero, provided that
adequate amounts of protein and fat are consumed.”
80% carbohydrate
Fat is Phat
Your typical breakfast?
Or this?
Dang!
Too much dietary sugar
Body Building
My typical breakfast
Nutrients
not
Calories
Fat - Our most potent source of fuel.
More carbs since 1980
More obesity
Hormones
Exercise
What kind and how much?
This won’t happen to you!
In sum: Eat real food. Lifts weights.
