Fats and health

Edited by Doctor Francesco Casillo

Once again, the bodybuilding practice in "adopting strategies useful for the pursuit of a lean and muscular physique, in this case referring to dietary manipulation emphasizing the reduction of carbohydrates to promote fat loss or muscle definition, anticipated what research has found to posterity confirming the happiness and effectiveness of the methodological intuitions adopted in the field and of how nutritional manipulations even when extreme (always understood in reference to the eating habits of the average population) never prove dangerous when they lead to "only" or " prevalent "loss of fat but indeed have a positive effect on individual longevity confirming the" assumption: "beautiful outside (= little fat) because healthy inside" (= reduction of cardiovascular risks).
Do not confuse the quality of the refinement of the precise relationships between the nutrients of these nutritional approaches, the knowledge of the facts from which they find reason for being and the scientific scope that supports the validity of the construct in the field of application with the "practicalities" aimed at sterile weight loss unfortunately still the prerogative of slimming systems (read also "wasting") disclosed by many professionals operating (inside and / or outside gyms and fitness centers) by virtue of enabling paper but not always actually professionalizing!

Article courtesy of the "Cultura Fisica" magazine

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