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 3 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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