I have one thing that you can do to make your diet healthier,  turn up your metabolism and torch more body fat.  And it’s not controversial…

You see, I was thinking this weekend about nutrition and what "eating better" means.  I hear the two word phrase all the time… Athlon Elite members are always asking me about "eating better," nutritionists are always telling me about "eating better,"  my girlfriend says I should "eat better."  But when I do some research into "eating better" I get many, many different ideas of what "eating better" really is.  Some "experts" say we should eat more protein and less carbs, some "experts" say saturated fat should be cut out of our diet, then another "expert" says saturated fat is good in our diet as it is the building block of many of our hormones, then I see all kinds of books written on how different bodies should eat different diets… what kind of body do I have… I thought mine was human???

The Typical Food Pyramid

(our government recommends this one)

A Different Pyramid

(many physicians recommend this one)

The Paleolithic Diet

(Becoming popular with "Wellness" Advocates)

I continually here from people about how hard it is for them to "eat better" because they don’t exactly know "what is better."  And if you’re anything like me, you’ll try so hard to figure out what’s "exactly right" that you’ll get lost in the details and ultimately give up in failure ("analysis paralysis").

The fact is, there is no "exactly right" to "eating better."  My friend and trainer Dave Brown, who has spent the last 8 years of his life studying this stuff with a bachelors and masters degree in nutrition, sums it up perfectly when he says there is "no perfect nutrition," there is only "best-guess nutrition."  After years of his own research he’s realized that human physiology is such a complex subject it is pretty much impossible to "perfectly" isolate and research, thus any nutrition recommendations that come out of research are "best-guess" recommendations at best.

So does this mean we should give up… throw in the towel and drink more sodas and eat McDonald’s for lunch everyday? No. There is one very definite "best-guess" nutrition practice that will make you healthier, more energetic and burn more body fat…  eat more frequent meals.

"Frequently fueling" your machine will keep it running smoothly throughout the day and through the week.  By Fueling your body frequently, ideally every 3 - 3 1/2 hours, you send a continuous supply of vital nutrients into your body.  Metabolism, by definition, simply means "the speed with which your body burns through food."  To boost metabolism, to become one of those people who can eat anything and not get fat, it’s essential that you put lots of food through the "food burning machine" with consistent regularity.

This strategy is the second step in our six-step Burn program, a program designed to turn-up your internal furnace and "torch" body fat.  If you fuel the machine more frequently you’ll do two things: one, you’ll keep a higher metabolism as you’ll balance hormones and burn a ton of energy digesting it, and two, you’ll eat less.  Yes!  You will eat less.  One of the biggest reasons for over-eating is going too long since your last "fueling" (food intake).

So, if you want what most people do, (a toned/chissled, energetic, fat burning machine), start eating more meals throughout the day.  It really works!

Check back later this week for tips and strategies on how to effectively do this simple, one-step nutritional plan and start feeling better and "torching body fat" right away.