Protein Consumption is an Integral Part of a Balanced Healthy Diet

Do you make sure to include a protein source at each and every snack or meal? If not, you’re missing out big time. If you do, you are most certainly maximizing the time and energy you’re putting into your exercise routine. If you are not currently exercising, protein intake with each meal is that much more important.

The importance of a balanced healthy diet with carbohydrate-rich and protein-rich foods together cannot be understated. A meal with carbohydrates alone is problematic because glucose levels shoot up and then, come crashing down. This will almost always leave you feeling tired, hungry, and weak. In addition to these post meal feelings, it gives your body an easy opportunity to convert that meal to fat.

When protein is included in a meal however, you will not only stay full longer, but glucose levels will stay more consistent, your metabolism will work more efficiently, and you will feel energized for a longer period of time.

Protein and carbohydrates interact. Carbohydrates are digested in about two hours, but proteins take longer to digest. When the two are eaten together, proteins slow down the digestion of the carbohydrates, and energy from carbohydrates is released slower.

In addition, eating carbohydrates with protein means the carbohydrates will be used as energy, sparing the protein for use building and repairing muscle tissues – their primary function. This is the utopia you are looking for.

Make every effort to include a protein source with every meal you eat, not matter how large or how small. It makes a big difference!

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