How To Fuel Your Body

The body is simply a machine, a very complex machine, though it may be, a machine nonetheless. Treat it like a machine; pump it full of fuel that is going to benefit you and your body.

If you have a diesel engine you are not going pump it full of unleaded gas; that would be foolish on account of it would destroy your car. You have to use the right fuel for the right car.

When accounting for the fuel you are going to use, you have to look at three different things. One is octane, now in mechanics that means resistance to premature combustion.

In the body that would be a lot like simply carbohydrates. These are going to combust and be digested and metabolized as fat, rather than burning in the body and providing energy.

Eating high octane foods, like whole wheat and complex carbohydrates is going to provide the body with some lasting and burning energy. Simple foods, like the kind you get from fast food restaurants, are going to be the weak low octane type.

These fast foods that have become so popular are basically turning into fat before you even have a chance to step out of your car. Now it is going to cost a little more, and it will be a little less convenient, but your body is worth the expense.

Next you have to take into volatility. This is going to be how easily the food is evaporated.

Foods that have very low caloric charge are going to be evaporated or metabolized fast in the body. They may fill your stomach for a small time, but they do not provide lasting energy.

Now the body is a bit more confusing than a simple automobile. The body needs many different sources of fuel: one of which is calorie for energy, the others are all mineral and vitamins that are imperative for proper development.

So eating salads, fruits and veggies with low volatility may not fill your stomach so easily, but they are going to provide some necessary ingredients to the body. Think of nutrients like coolants and oils, they are not the main source of fuel, but without them the mechanism wouldn't run.

Lastly is solubility. How is it going to be absorbed in your blood? Proteins, sugars, and nutrients are the three things we get from food.

You will need all three to be metabolized through the intestines and passed into the blood stream. Meats are going to have a lot of soluble proteins and produce is going to have a lot of soluble nutrients.

Try to get a good spread of different nutrients. Avoid foods that provide no nutrients.

Destry Masterson is a health and nutrition expert. She publishes articles for http://www.foodinsurance.com and recommends them for food storage. Contact Info: Destry Masterson - MyOnlineArticleWriting@gmail.com - Twitter: @DestryMasterson