5.Eating

CATEGORY:

•Other

DEFINITION:

•Eating (also known as consuming) is the ingestion of food, typically to provide an organism with energy for growth and repair in order to survive

FUNCTION:

•By definition, eating is essential to life...however...in the latter 20th century, eating regularly and excessively became readily available to the masses of the civilised world, rather than a reserve for the social elite

ACTION:

•Consuming food for survival is only required in quantities related to Basal Metabolic rates and Body Mass Index

-Also a function of the activity level a person is involved with

FACTS:

•The body does not care how delicious a food might be as its primary concern is how nutritious consumed calories are and at the correct quantities

-Consuming food beyond these requirements should be considered entertainment

•The Paleo Diet (Palaeolithic) is the closest to resembling the human ancestral heritage for consuming food

-Palaeolithic period (Stone Age) from 2.6million years to 10,000 years ago (the longest period in human history)

•The EODD (Every Other Day Diet) is a Carb-cycling variant of the Paleo Diet

•The 4HB Diet (4 Hour Body) implements much of the Paleo philosophy but considers 21st century lifestyles

•ITT is a combination of all the above and provides information on how and why diet, physical & cerebral activity and sleep should be manipulated for optimum function

-Feeding

-Feasting

-Fasting

-Sleeping

-Training

MANIPULATION:

•Numerous reasons why overconsumption of Calories occurs...

-Habitual

-Ritual

-Social

-Emotional (stress, depression)

-Climate

-Boredom

-Psychological

-Inactivity

—Similarly, except for over activity, the underconsumption of calories can occur

DIETING:

•When Calories consumed exceed Calories expended, un-utilised Glucose which has entered the Blood Stream, when Glycogen Stores (Muscle & Liver) are full, will be stored in the form of Triglycerides in Adipose Tissue for use at times of energy deficiency

•When Calories expended exceed Calories consumed for a prolonged period (over 24hrs once Glycogen Stores are depleted) the body is forced into a state of Fat Oxidation as a source of energy

-Provided Adipose Tissue and Triglycerides are available

—In their absence, and other sources e.g Ketones & Lactate are exhausted, the body will utilise Skeletal Muscle...Starvation Mode

RELATED TO:

•Fasting & Feasting

•Physical Protocols

•Macro & Micro Nutrients

•Glucose & Glycogen

NOTES:

•Processed vs Wholesome (natural) food