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Chapter 10 - Everyone needs more energy.

Usually at any time, but especially when we consider weight loss. When we alter our food intake patterns or reduce our overall caloric intake, it is common to experience a lack of energy. Food's ability to give us extra energy is more important than ever right now.

One of the many reasons why World's Healthiest Foods are so beneficial is because they help you feel energized while you lose weight.

And the process is quite straightforward: By providing your body with sufficient quantities of the nutrients required by the body's energy production systems, the World's Healthiest Foods can energize you.

It's not just that they give you enough of the macronutrients (carbohydrates, protein, and fat) that start the process of making energy. Additionally, they contain micronutrients—vitamins and minerals—that aid in the recapture and release of energy for later use when and where it is most needed.

Your cells are where you get the energy from your food.

Our cells' very small microstructures, known as mitochondria, are where some of the most crucial locations for the production of energy are located. Our mitochondria's energy production process is difficult to understand. It depends on a number of enzymes that need a lot of important nutrients to work properly, like vitamins B1, B2, B3, B5, and B6, lipoic acid, coenzyme Q, and iron, magnesium, and sulfur. So, think about how different it will make you feel to eat refined foods that are low in nutrients compared to nutrient-rich whole foods like fresh fruits, salads, and vegetables, which are also high in nutrients. Your energy systems will unquestionably continue to receive the health-promoting nutrients it requires to fuel your vitality from these and other World's Healthiest Foods.

Additionally, phytonutrients, which serve as potent antioxidants, can be found in the World's Healthiest Foods, particularly in fruits and vegetables. These nutrients derived from plants are capable of assisting in the production of healthy energy, which is in addition to the numerous other advantages they provide. This is due to the fact that as your body generates energy, it also produces oxygen radicals that have the potential to harm the energy centers in mitochondria as well as numerous cells and tissues, resulting in decreased and inefficient energy production. But the phytonutrients and other antioxidants (like vitamin E) in World's Healthiest Foods can protect your cells by quenching oxygen radicals so they can't harm them.

Fat must be burned while other tissue (like muscle mass) must be preserved in order to achieve healthy weight loss. The process of "fat burning" may appear to be fairly straightforward, but it is anything but.

Chemically, "fat burning" refers to the oxidation of fat. Numerous enzymes and nutrients are required to break down and convert body fat into energy. The B vitamins B2 (riboflavin), B3 (niacin), and B5 (pantothenic acid) are all directly involved in this process.

Proteins and molecules containing sulfur and phosphorus are also involved. We will not burn body fat effectively if our food does not supply us with enough of these nutrients that break down fat. When looking to maximize healthy weight loss, it is crucial to concentrate on nutrient-rich World's Healthiest Foods due to their concentration of these and other nutrients.

Brown fat cells' ability to undergo "thermogenesis" is the subject of some preliminary research as well. In order to activate the thermogenic production of heat in brown adipose (fat) cells, the World's Healthiest Foods—particularly those that provide higher protein and lower refined carbohydrates, as well as those that are high in fiber—are essential. Additionally, they reduce the amount of dietary fat stored in normal cells;

As a result, they might be useful considerations during the weight loss or management process.

Green tea, which contains major components that may help to promote fat loss, is one of the foods (well, beverages) that I emphasize in the chapter "Chapter 6: World's Healthiest Foods Promote Optimal Metabolism 6364 Healthy Weight Loss — Without Dieting Healthy Weight Loss Eating Plan." caffeine, catechins, and theanine By inhibiting both gastric and pancreatic lipase, the enzymes that digest triglycerides, and synthetase, the enzyme that synthesizes fatty acids into the form that can be stored in the body's adipose (fat) cells, green tea compounds may help promote fat loss, according to studies. In addition to the fact that the antioxidant concentration of green tea has been found to be beneficial to health on numerous levels, I emphasize its consumption in the Healthy Weight Loss Eating Plan for this reason. The ingredients in My Healthier Lifestyle Tea are lemon juice and green tea.)

I would like to draw attention to one more area of research that has to do with optimal metabolism and weight loss. That area is the contamination of whole, natural foods with pesticides and other harmful substances when these foods are grown and processed in a way that is bad for them. Some preliminary evidence suggests that compounds and pesticides containing chlorine—collectively referred to as "organochlorines"—can disrupt the thermogenesis process and make it more difficult to lose weight this way. You can avoid these organochlorine contaminants thanks to my preference for organically grown foods! If you limit your consumption to organically grown whole foods as much as possible, you won't have to worry about them interfering with your metabolism.