A Christian Guide to Body Stewardship, Diet and Exercise

50 Chapter 3: Weight Management Figure 3.4. Hierarchy of Factors for Fat Loss Notice in Figure 3.4, nutrition is the most important factor and is fundamental in order to achieve fat loss. Israetel et al. (2019) proposes there is also a hierarchy in terms of nutritional priorities (Figure 3.5). Specifically, caloric balance (i.e., calories consumed vs. calories burned), macronutrient amounts (i.e., grams of carbohydrate, protein, and fat consumed per day), nutrient timing (i.e., when and how macronutrients are spread out across daily meals), food composition (i.e., sources of macronutrients consumed), and supplement use. Figure 3.5. Hierarchy of Factors for Nutrition

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