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Fitness Focus New Jersey is an exciting new publication for health-, fitness- and wellness-minded individuals in pursuit of a healthier mind, body and lifestyle. This unique magazine offers useful and informative features to help NJ residents take advantage of all our resources, as well as connect with fitness-related businesses and professionals.
Back in 1992 the food pyramid was introduced and then in 2005 it was updated. This became the bench mark that was to be followed and advised for nutritional health. Maybe the intentions were good but both pyramids are greatly flawed and misconceptions were formed. The 1992 pyramid encouraged low fat and high carbohydrates. To greatly summarize, what happened is that saturated fat was linked to the risk of heart disease and other ailments, the pyramid therefore instructed us to reduce the fat in our diet. With that preface it could not then promote a high protein diet as red meat contains a lot of saturated fat. It had just told us that Fat was bad and protein, especially red met, has fat in it so it too must be "Bad" .... What was left ? Fat was bad and by default Protein was therefore bad, that left us with only carbohydrates, so by elimination alone carbohydrates became "Good" The 1992 pyramid failed to distinguish between good fats and bad fats and it did not consider the different sources of protein. We know red meat can contain a lot of saturated fat, we also know that poultry does not and fish is indeed a rich source of the good fats.