Vitamins for your body are like an octane booster for your car
by: mark19
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Most of us simply eat because its time to do so and because it's fun. Meals taste good and are too often just seen as rewards for having gotten through a set of tasks during certain parts of the day. Seldom are they thought of as fuel to help you through a set of tasks or, in the case of an evening meal, as a way of replenishing energy store and tissue depletion.
Living athletically requires more energy than simply sitting in front of one's computer or desk at a 9 to 5 job. Granted, either of these can feel exhausting because of the demands which they place on you (stress). However,the calorie usage is not as great. Nor is there the same wear and tear on the musculature.
If you are doing a daily workout routine, you need to have an adequate supply of food for energy. You need to satisfy your hunger. But you cannot overdo it. Consuming too may calories even when working out will still result in one's becoming fat. It also results in sluggishness due to the amount of time which is needed for digestion.
That' is why vitamins are so necessary. Especially the B-complex vitamins cause more rapid digestion of your food and a more complete absorption into your tissues. This makes what you eat much more available for what you do. As a result you need less than if you did not take them at all.
For many, this is counter intuitive. They believe that increased physical demands will result in increased appetite which they equate with a need for more food. Nothing could be more disastrous for a conditioning routine. What is needed is better usage and increased availability of what is consumed, just like octane booster does for the gas in your car. It really makes the fuel work better to getting you more efficiently to the places you want to go. Not surprisingly then, it even results in better gas mileage to say nothing of a cleaner engine.
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Obese 45 years ago;state champion power lifter 30 years ago;able to do more today at 61 than when out for swim team in high school. Author of "Think and Grow Fit" (a rational person's guide to getting in shape and staying that way forever.) Personal hero : grandfather of fitness, Jack Lalanne, who is extraordinary at his 2 hour a day workout age of 95! Personally committed to raising USA life expectancy from 85 to 140. http://www.foreverfitness.info http://blog.foreverfitness.info
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