Diet and Fitness

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We could not forget those who seek to lose weight but gain muscle and improve body composition. Although if you want to see those muscles and have a fibrous appearance, you lose fat or, if you’re thin, keep it under control.

Just eating are not going to build muscle, you need to train. But if you do not eat the right way you will not make your muscles ‘look’ as it could, you will not recover quickly after exertion.

Our muscles can immediately start using any fuel, depending on the effort made and the availability of each item:

* Carbohydrates that are converted into glycogen, which accumulates in the muscle itself as a form of rapid energy availability
* Fats that have a mechanical function of both protection and structures involved in muscle cells. They are also used as an energy substrate disposed between the bundles of muscle fibers to become energy after depleting muscle and liver glycogen.
* Proteins, muscle main component necessary for compensr wear occurs with exertion, which causes a degradation of amino acids greater the more intense and prolonged. In extreme cases the proteins that build your muscles may also play an energetic role, being used as fuel. So if you want to keep your muscles intact, it is necessary that food properly.

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