Consistent exercise and proper nutrition play a vital role in our ability to maintain our overall health and quality of life. According to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, consistent exercise and proper nutrition can help maintain a healthy weight and reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease as well as lower risks for certain forms of cancer. Our body needs quality fuel and proper maintenance to function optimally; nutrition and exercise help meet these requirements.
“This is a little lesson explaining the effects that nutrition and exercise have on each other. Diet modulates weight, Exercise modulates body composition. Nutrition quality will improve how fast you lose or gain weight. …show more content…
Some people may be allergic to foods such as gluten or dairy, and consuming such food would be detrimental to overall health. “The one thing we can say is that improvements in the quality of diet directly lead to results in weight (maintenance, gain or loss) as well as quality of health. Since we literally are what we eat, if we take in junk food all the time our health is probably going to decline, and the body will probably gain weight as junk food has a high caloric value,” says Nutrition Expert Madhumitha Krish. Healthy bodies operate better mentally, physically, and emotionally so it is very important to get high quality …show more content…
If the energy need exceeds than of which the diet provides (hypocaloric diet for the obese & isocaloric diet for those who want to maintain weight), then the body tends to metabolize adipose tissue to supply the energy,” says Dietician Shail Yadav.
In essence, our bodies adapt to stress. The higher the stress the bigger the adaptation. This is why higher intensity protocols such as weightlifting get stronger adaptations to them than lower intensity such as cardio or very light weights.
The regulation of body composition operates according to the law of diminishing returns (aka logarithmic scale). This means that the improvements will be much greater the higher the body fat percentage & with less muscle mass, but much lower as the body fat percentage drops & with more muscle mass.
“One fitness myth is that you cannot add muscle and lose fat at the same time; this is wrong and occurs frequently in obese individuals who are losing weight while doing high intensity exercise. However, as the BF% drops into the teens and single digits, it does not occur as much if at all”, says Personal fitness Trainer Prabhu, Fitness