Muscle Fitness Muscle & Fitness UK - April 2018 | Page 98

BACK TO
BASICS
NUTRITION
Part 3
W
E ARE COMING INTO THE
third month of this year long
series now and I hope you
have been able to easily apply
the information to your own
nutrition. The goal of this whole
series is to make the science of
nutrition easy for you to understand.
As always let’s take a recap at what
we covered in last month’s feature
on protein.
✓ Role of protein in the body
✓ Protein under the microscope
– essential vs non-essential
amino acids
✓ Optimising protein intake for
vegans and vegetarians
✓ How much protein do you
really need
✓ What are the best sources of
protein
✓ Do you need protein shakes?
✓ Hitting your targets – now
two-fold hitting calorie number
and protein target
Going back again to our diagram
below of the DIET CAKE, for
96
MUSCLE & FITNESS / APRIL 2018
Optimising Fat Intake
those who have maybe just found
this series and are yet to read
parts 1&2, this represents what
matters most in dietary success.
The larger the slice of cake, the
greater its importance and influence
on your results. In other words,
don’t focus on the parts of the
cake that have the smallest slices
representing them before you have
fully understood and applied the
larger slices.
In month 1 we covered calorie
balance, month 2 we moved into
the first element of macronutrients
(Macros) which was protein, which
leaves a further two macronutrients
to cover; fat and carbohydrates.
This month our attention will be
on FAT.
FAT, it seems, has been at the
forefront of discussion since the
dawn of dieting and still remains a