Protein Is Important
Other than water, protein is the largest element contained in the human body. Water makes up about 65 percent of our form and proteins follow at about 28 percent. All cells in your bones, muscles, hair, skin, nails, brain, heart and other organs contain proteins. The enzymes that your body produces to facilitate metabolic processes are made of protein. Proteins, called immunoglobulins, are an important component of your immune defense system and are needed to support a healthy immune system.
The human body maintains itself with the amino acids from protein; therefore, it is important to consume adequate amounts on a daily basis. Unfortunately as with so many people fighting the “battle of the bulge” and losing weight through calorie restriction a significant portion of the pounds shed are from lean body mass, which is primarily protein. In order to support your overall health during weight loss, the health of your organs, and metabolic processes, you must consume adequate amounts of protein.
Proteins are made up of over 20 different amino acids, all of which are important to metabolism. Eight of these have been classified essential, meaning that they cannot be made in the body and must be supplied in the diet. Ten other amino acids can be produced within the body and are important, but not classified as essential. The remaining amino acids are conditionally essential, meaning that under certain conditions, metabolic performance is better if they are provided by the diet.
Essential Fats, Deadly fats
Just as proteins contain amino acids, fats contain fatty acids. Several fatty acids have been classified essential, especially linoleic acid and omega-3s (at least for optimum health). In recent years, dietary fat has been generally targeted as the enemy, but it is necessary for many biological functions.
The brain and other organs require large amounts of the best quality essential fats, including cholesterol, DHA, EPA (long chain omega-3 fatty acids,), and phospholipids such as phosphatidyl choline and phosphatidyl serine. Each of these fats has a specific function in maintaining the shape, fluidity, structure and function of the cell membranes of the trillions of cells in your body.
Most of your body’s hormones are also made from dietary fats, the rest are made from proteins. Severe dietary restrictions of fats often coincide with the restriction of high quality proteins, as well. Undesirable fats include oxidized fats (deriving mainly from foods fried in oils at high temperatures) and Trans-fatty acids (deriving mainly from chemiclaly altered oils). BodySMART Solutions Triple Protein Shake provides minimal amounts of high quality fats, and no oxidized or trans-fats.
Carbohydrates
Carbohydrates, as opposed to proteins and the right fats, are not essential in the human diet. They are useful as a fuel source, but must be carefully matched to your type of metabolism and activity level. More importantly, fiber is classified as a carbohydrate, but is not utilized as fuel. Fiber is necessary for the digestive tract and is important in many ways, but cannot be digested or used for energy.
Many of the natural foods rich in carbohydrates contain fiber, vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients, but most of them are lost or drastically reduced by refining and processing. BodySMART Triple Protein Shake contains high-quality protein from whey, milk protein isolate and soy, with little carbohydrate or fat, and a representative amount of essential vitamins and minerals to help provide these crucial nutrients, especially important to those limiting their caloric intake.
Carbohydrate Sensitivity Plays A Role In Abdominal Weight Gain
In order to help maintain a healthy weight, people who are carbohydrate sensitive should avoid diets high in carbohydrates. According to estimates, over half of overweight people are carbohydrate sensitive. By excluding foods made with white flour and white sugar, they are more likely to reduce abdominal fat, maintain already healthy cholesterol and triglyceride levels, as well as retain already healthy blood pressure and fluid balance. For women, the circumference of the waist being over 80 percent of the circumference at the widest part of the hips, and for men the waist being as large or larger than the hips, as in a “beer belly,” are strong indications that they are carbohydrate sensitive and have been consuming diets too high in carbohydrates for their type of metabolism and level of physical activity for a longtime.
Higher Protein Diets Make Sense
Higher protein, lower-carbohydrate weight management programs make sense for many people. The BodySMART Lifestyle Management Program can help you find out what levels of protein, carbohydrates and fat are right for your body type, age and activity level. Supplementing with the high quality milk, whey and soya derived proteins in BodySMART Triple Protein Shake, which carries a GMO-free Certification for its soy protein, enriches your diet with protein of high biological value and complements balanced carbohydrate diets.
Loss Of Essential Nutrients May Be Harmful
Diets that are low in total calories may not contain adequate amounts of various vitamins and minerals. BodySMART Triple Protein Shake provides the essential vitamins A, B-complex, C, D and E, as well as the essential minerals copper, zinc, iodine, manganese, selenium, magnesium, calcium, molybdenum and chromium. Maintaining or replenishing healthy levels of chromium, along with daily replenishment of B vitamins can help to decrease cravings for sweets and generally improve the ability to think clearly and handle stress more effectively.
Nearly everyone is aware of the need for adequate dietary intake of essential nutrients from calcium, magnesium and vitamin D for healthy nerves and bones, and vitamins A, C, E and selenium for antioxidant protection. Selenium and iodine are necessary for healthy thyroid function, molybdenum is an essential trace element necessary for proper metabolism of iron and sulfur compounds, and copper, zinc and manganese activate crucial antioxidant enzyme systems, among their many other functions. The BodySMART Triple Protein Shake is also a good source of potassium (contains more per serving than 8 ounces of orange juice) and contains only160 mg of sodium per serving.
The BodySMART Men’s and Women’s
Gold Formulas complement and extend the nutrient spectrum provided by the Protein Shakes, to provide an optimum blend of nutrient intake for healthy weight management, and to be used as part of a total program of proper diet and exercise the BodySMART Solutions Lifestyle Management System.
Calcium, Magnesium, Health and Weight Management
Minerals sometimes function as paired duos with a yin/yang relationship, as in the case of calcium and magnesium. Too much of one leads to too little of the other. For example, because calcium has been so emphasized by the dairy, food and supplement industries as crucial to bone health, without emphasizing the importance of magnesium, an already magnesium deficient population has become even more so.
Besides its role as a building block in bone, magnesium is essential to the function of more than 300 enzyme systems within the body, including those that produce ATP, the energy “currency” that the entire body runs on. Two BodySMART Triple Protein Shakes a day provide 100% of the DV for magnesium (400 mg) as magnesium glycinate one of the most soluble and bioavailable forms of magnesium, and over 1200 mg of a unique form of calcium calcium extracted and purified from milk (dairy calcium), which also provides magnesium and many trace minerals.
Dairy Calcium and Weight Management
Together, results from animal studies, analysis of epidemiological data, observational data, and clinical trials are beginning to establish a relationship between calcium intake and weight management both in terms of weight and fat loss and as well as preventing weight gain, although more research is needed. Mechanisms have been identified by which dietary calcium, particularly derived from dairy products, affects fat storage and therefore body fat and weight.
Higher-calcium diets inhibit fat storage and promote breakdown of fat stores, fat burning, and thermogenesis. Dairy sources of calcium inhibit weight and fat gain and accelerate fat loss more so than do other supplemental sources of calcium. This augmented effect of dairy products relative to supplemental calcium is likely due to additional bioactive compounds, such as the branched-chain amino acids in whey, which act synergistically with calcium to increase fat burning and decrease fat storage.
Great Taste With No added Sugar
BodySMART Triple Protein Shake is sweetened with sucralose, which is 600 times sweeter than table sugar; but without any additional calories. The FDA approved sucralose in the late 1990s after receiving more than 110 studies that had been done over a period of 20 years. It is actually derived form table sugar, and is a chemically stable molecule that is not digested or appreciably absorbed form the intestines. Sucralose is not to be confused with other sweeteners, which may act as excitotoxins in the brain. By incorporating sucralose into this popular protein supplement, a pleasant naturally sweet taste can be achieved without the carbohydrate calories from fructose or other simple carbohydrates.
One serving of BodySMART Solutions Triple Protein Shake provides:
- *250% as much protein as an 8 oz serving of whole milk
- *303% as much protein as an 8 oz serving of soy milk
- *72% as much protein as a 3 oz serving of top choice lean sirloin steak
- *221 - 224% as much calcium as an 8 oz serving of whole milk
- *115 to 124% as much potassium as an 8 oz serving of fresh orange juice
- *271- 281% as much magnesium as a 3.5 oz serving of fresh spinach
- *With NO trans fats, and only 1 to 2 grams of carbohydrates, 0.6 - 0.8 gram of fat, 130 - 139 mg of sodium.
- *Mixed in 12 oz of nonfat milk, 1 serving provides the additional benefit of MORE than 82 - 83% of the daily value of calcium.
pea and brown rice protein - in a readily usable form that is suitable for vegans.
