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Joe Friel breaks down the science of fat loss for aging athletes, revealing that it's not just about cutting calories. Learn why reducing high glycemic carbs while increasing protein intake can actually help you lose weight without feeling deprived, and discover why your body becomes more injury-prone after 40 and what you can do about it.
"There's a big difference between protein and carbohydrate, especially high glycemic carbohydrate. You need to realize that, and as you get older, especially focus more on the protein side and less on the carbohydrate, sugar, starch side."
"If you've been eating a lot of high glycemic and not much protein, making that change is probably going to cause you to lose weight because those two things fit together very nicely."
"Breaking your hip is one of the worst things that can happen to you as you get older... that's one of the reasons I suggest you do a lot of weight training to help prevent that sort of thing from happening."
“the researchers took a group of athletes and for eight weeks they had them eat 800 more car calories per day from protein they kept their diet the same but they added 800 more carbo calories of protein per day after eight weeks they didn't gain any more weight their weight stayed the same now had they've been taking in a lot of starch and sugar I can guarantee you they would have gained a lot of weight with 800 calories per day being taken in”
“number one cut back in carbohydrate in your diet especially high glycemic carbohydrate that which means mostly starches and sugars you just need to cut back I'm not telling you cut them out I'm not saying become a Buddhist monk all I'm saying is just begin to cut back on eating that type of food”
“as soon as you're starting to become aware of your protein intake and you're looking to get you know 1.5 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight in and around that like for me that's around 100 grams of protein a day and if you break that into three Square meals you know 33 grams of protein per meal it actually doesn't leave a lot of space left for eating a lot of these high glycemic index carbs”
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