Fitness & Nutrition - H2F.life

Refined sugar vs Fruit sugar Sucrose vs Fructose With so many different diets and sources of nutrition advise, it can be very difficult to separate fact from fiction -Especially when it comes to fruit ( fruit sugar ). Fruit sugar is called fructose. Table sugar is called sucrose. Sucrose Absorption: Sucrose is a disaccharide, it must be broken down before your body can use it. Enzymes in your mouth partially break down sucrose into glucose and fructose. However, the majority of sugar digestion happens in the small intestine. The enzyme sucrase, which is made by the lining of your small intestine, splits sucrose into glucose and fructose. They are then absorbed into your bloodstream. The presence of glucose increases the amount of fructose that is absorbed and also stimulates the release of insulin. This means that more fructose is used to create fat, compared to when this type of sugar is eaten alone. Therefore, eating fructose and glucose together may harm ...

Like training / exercise, diet (nutrition) is a vital part for your body. Eating the right foods in the appropriate amounts provides your body with the nutrients they need. Conversely, consuming the wrong foods or not consuming enough of the right ones will leave you with subpar results. Here are foods you should avoid: These include: Alcohol: Alcohol  can negatively affect your ability to build muscle and lose fat, especially if you consume it in excess. Added sugars:  These offer plenty of calories but few nutrients. Foods high in added sugars include candy, cookies, doughnuts, ice cream, cake and sugar-sweetened beverages, such as soda and sports drink. Some oils that are used for cooking:  These may promote inflammation and when consumed in excess they become the cause of chronic disease. Especially these oils  soybean oil. corn oil. cottonseed oil. sunflower oil. sesame oil. rice bran oil. Instead use these as a healthy option...

The high fat diet is becoming widely known as the best way to loose weight, improve energy levels and boost mental performance. There are a whole list of benefits associated with eating a high fat diet . The benefits of a High Fat Diet The benefits of a high fat diet result not only from the fat being consumed but also from the absence of sugar being burned as a primary fuel. Disease avoidance: Because there is less glycation of proteins in the blood when we eat more fat and less sugar we suffer less chronic inflammation. Fat is a clean burning fuel so at the cellular level there are fewer Rective Oxygen Species (ROS) generated and therefore less mess for the immune system to clean up. More energy: Ketones are broken down from dietary fats. Ketone bodies are much more efficiently converted into Adenosine Tryphosphate (ATP) than glycogen. This means more energy is produced  within the cell and more energy is then available to the body as a whole. Mental clarity: The b...

You know very well that exercise is good for your health. But do you know how? What happens in your body when you exercising? ATP , or adenosine triphosphate, is chemical energy  the cell   can use. It is the molecule that  provides energy   or your cells to perform work, when you move your muscles to do anything like walking, lifting, pulling, jumping,etc To create more ATP,   your body   needs extra oxygen, so breathing increases when you exercise and   your   heart starts pumping more blood to   your   muscles.  Without sufficient oxygen, lactic acid will form instead.  Tiny tears in   your   muscles make them grow bigger and stronger when   they   heal. Muscle  hypertrophy, or the increase in  muscle  mass due to  exercise , particularly weight training, is a noticeable long-term  effect  of  exercise . Additionally, with...

Hundred years back people live much hard working life than now and there is no doubt in that they were much more healthier and active.  Regular  physical activity  can improve your muscle strength and boost your endurance.  Exercise  delivers oxygen and nutrients to your tissues and helps your cardiovascular system work more efficiently. And when your heart and lung health improves,  you'll  have more energy to tackle daily chores. Gym was introduced to people at that time when technology took over almost every man power work. Nowadays people are less physically active and that is causing health issues.                                STRENGTH                                                          ...

Most people use a term called weight loss which is not correct or appropriate. You are not suppose to lose weight, losing weight is a different thing. Anybody can lose weight You just don't eat. You will lose weight, unfortunately, the weight you lose will be both muscle and fat. Losing weight means losing fat as well as muscles and muscle loss is not good for you, it will make you weak. You are only suppose to lose fat . "Fat loss" is the correct term you should use. The goal to successful weight loss is to preserve as much muscle as possible, or possibly even gain some, while at the same time lose as much body fat as possible. Muscle plays a very important role in losing fat. Muscles have these little fat burning powerhouses called mitochondria.   Mitochondria are cellular power plants that are responsible for the production of energy. It’s in the mitochondria that fat is metabolized. There is a positive correlation between the amount of muscle yo...