subject: How To Quickly Boost Your Energy From Home Cook Food [print this page] Foods and drinks carry chemical energy, which means that during the decomposition processes, energy is released. The body uses this evolved chemical energy for a number of purposes: building new cells and tissues, maintaining muscle tone and enabling motion (including heartbeat as well as the tone and motions of all blood vessels and visceral organs), heating the body, cooling the body (in certain circumstances, it may require more energy than heating), catalyzing other metabolic processes, immune defence, and so on.
Ironically, when we feel tired or weak, we usually cannot increase our energy by taking up the well-known energy supplying nutrients: carbohydrates (for example, in sugar, bread or pastry) or fat unless tiredness or weakness is just caused by rejecting the same nutrients from the diet. In all other cases, eating carbohydrates or fat may even reduce the amount of energy instead of augmenting it, leaving us even more depressed or enervated. The reason obviously is that the digestion of these molecules needs quite a lot of energy, too.
Though the proper choice of energy-boosting foods and drinks partly depends on the reasons for being tired or weak (especially if one is ill), in the majority of cases, we have to compose our diet from foods and drinks, which are rich in vitamins, minerals, important trace elements, and also amino acids or simple polypeptides (basic compounds for the synthesis of proteins), even enzymes.
An energy-increasing diet has to include much green, leafy vegetables, fresh fruits and salads, fish, eggs, dairy products, nuts and seeds. Whole grains also contain important trace elements, so flours and food products made out of them are beneficial too. Honey, though being relatively rich in sugar, is also a good choice because of its high vitamin and enzyme content. Pollen is one of the best energy increasing foods, in the fact that it carries all the above listed essential substances. Carrots and beetroot, as well as certain kinds of mushrooms, for examples, shiitake, are highly recommendable too.
A number of herbs, either used as spices in foods and drinks, or in the form of an extract, can also do wonder to our energetic disposition. Among them there are, just to mention a few, angelica, allspice, cinnamon, ginger, ginseng, rosemary and turmeric.
I recommend two amazing, energy-increasing foods, which are easy to prepare at home and delightful to eat: one of them is the Russian Borshch soup and the other is the Arabian As soup.
