Health Bite

May 23, 2008

Did you know your body cannot absorb more than 600 calories at a time?

2 Responses to “Health Bite”

  1. admin said

    Wow, Kate! That is pretty interesting. Does that mean we should limit ourselves to 600 calories per meal?

    How long should we wait before eating again?

  2. Kate said

    Makes sense to me as I don’t want to be storing any extra calories to be added as weight gain unless I plan on starving or training hard.
    Whe we eat an excess of calories our body will do what is accustom to with the calories.
    For axample, if you regularily eat more claories than your body requires, you body will store those calories in fat…and you will experience weight gain.
    If you work out regularily and you over eat and your body is used to your need for those extra calories for your muscle fuel it will send those extra claories to your muscles for ready use.
    I am sure you have heard the saying, It takes about 3-4 weeks to change or make a habit. Well it takes about the same time for your liver to change what it does with calories.
    As far as how long before you should eat again, there are different philosophies, but many experts now agree, that we should eat in small quantities every 3-4 hours. I suggest to people to pay attention and see what feels good for them, which may take a little while for them to figure that out, but th awareness is really important if we want to change our health.

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