NUTRIENTS
What the Body Needs and What it Doesn’t
Our bodies need nutrients, vitamins, minerals and water for good health and proper
functioning. Amazingly, the human body is capable of producing thousands of
nutrients that it needs to sustain its own life.
The nutrients that the body manufactures itself are
known as “nonessential” nutrients because
the body is able to actually produce those
nutrients itself and it’s not essential that
you go out and get them from the food
you eat.
Nonessential nutrients: the nutrients
manufactured by your body that
you do not need to get from the
food you eat.
Conversely, “essential nutrients”
are those nutrients that you must
get from the food you eat. To sustain
life, it is essential that you get these
nutrients from your dietary intake.
Essential nutrients: the nutrients you must get
from your diet because they are not being made in the
body.
Some examples of essential nutrients include water, proteins, fats, vitamins and
minerals. One very common nutrient that has been purposely omitted here
are carbohydrates. The biological fact of the matter is that there is not a single
carbohydrate that is essential to the human diet… Not sugar… Not starch… Not
fiber. The fact is, carbohydrates do not provide any nutritional benefit to the human
body—none whatsoever. You will learn a lot more about this in the coming sections.
The 2 Week Diet is about maximizing the nutrients that we do need while restricting
those that we do not. Really, it is all about eating the right foods in the right
quantities at the right time. When done correctly, we are able to put our body into a
24/7 fat burning mode.
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