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.

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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.