I'm in this awesome nutrition class at UW-Whitewater with Ann Garvin. I highly recommend her as a professor; I also took stress management with her last year. So I'm going to give you a brief about what we discussed in class this week.
We started out with a basic pie chart shown below. However, what the chart does not explain is that the carbohydrates should be COMPLEX. That means that white bread and pretzels don't count.
The chart below shows the difference in good carbs and bad carbs. This is very important to understand if you are trying to eat healthy or lose weight.
In today's society you will gain weight if you do not actively try to maintain or lose weight. Now the catchy title of this article comes from Professor Garvin. It means that we need carbohydrates in order to burn fat. If we don't have carbohydrates then the fat doesn't go away. (But we don't want it!) So this doesn't happen we need to continuously replace those carbohydrates that we burn off throughout the day.
The amount of protein in this graph surprised me. However, there are so many places we get protein from. In fact, we probably eat way too much protein. In all of these protein sources there is also fat. So, while we think we are being healthy getting our protein we really are getting a lot more fat than we need.
Lastly, there are also good and bad fats. The 30 percent of fat in our diet should be unsaturated. In other words, it should not come from an animal. Nuts and olive oils are excellent sources of unsaturated fats.
To help you eat well my professor also recommends this book that she owns. It offers hundreds of healthy recipes for every meal. Also, for every book someone buys they will give one away!
It is available on Amazon here.
Most people know they need to eat healthy but they find it to expensive. Hopefully this book helps with that problem!
