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After spending months on a diet to make weight you wanted, it comes time to pick up difficult a healthy diet that lets you stay on track and not lose the hard-earned. What should we eat? While there are not many data available, a recent study found that diets high in protein help to maintain the desired weight.

Have you dropped those extra kilos or pounds and regained fear when you stop dieting? Do not be discouraged! Obviously, since this is one of the main challenges that can take your sleep when you want to control your weight. Especially when you strive for the holiday season and during holidays. Read the rest of this entry »

Daily Protein Needs in Sport

The amount of protein needed each day is controversial, since it depends on many factors. Depends on age, as in the growing season needs are double or even triple that for an adult, the health of our gut and our kidneys, which can vary the degree of assimilation or nitrogen losses the feces and urine and the type of sport played. It also depends on the biological value of proteins that are consumed, although in general, all recommendations always refer to proteins of high biological value.

The World Health Organization recommends a value of 0.8 grams per kilogram of body weight per day. The maximum we can eat protein without affecting our health, is an even more delicate. The protein consumed in excess, which the body does not need for growth or protein turnover, the cells burn for energy. Read the rest of this entry »

Protein Functions in The Body

Proteins, unlike carbohydrates and fats, are a basic structural component, no energy, and play a great number of functions in the cells of all living beings.

- They are part of the basic structure of tissues (muscles, tendons, skin, nails, etc.).. These proteins, myosin and actin, which are essential in muscle contraction.
- Metabolic and regulatory roles, assimilation of nutrients, oxygen transport, fats, hormones and different substrates in the blood, inactivation of toxic or hazardous materials, etc.
- They are the elements that define the identity of every living being, as they are the base of the structure of the genetic code (DNA).
- They are key ingredients in the recognition systems of foreign organisms on the immune system. Read the rest of this entry »

An inadequate supply may result in inadequate training athlete body protein with the loss and muscle wasting.

Proteins are large molecules made up of long linear chains of their own constituents: amino acids. There are about twenty different amino acids, which can be combined in any order and repeated in any way. A protein consists of half a century or two amino acids aligned, giving rise to a number of different possible combinations really overwhelming (theoretically 20.200). And if this were not enough, according to the three-dimensional spatial configuration to take a particular sequence of amino acids, their properties can be completely different. Both carbohydrates and lipids have a relatively simple compared with the complexity and diversity of proteins. Read the rest of this entry »