Americans today tend to focus on a diet of high-carbohydrate, low-fat foods in order to lose weight and improve their health. Despite the dramatic increase in fat-free products and a health-conscious environment, Americans are still fatter than they were thirty years ago. In pursuit of physical health, we have forgotten an important concept‚ balance!

The PR*Bar and Fastburn Nutrition Program are a significant departure from the traditional high-carbohydrate approach to losing body fat and enhancing athletic performance. The basis of the PR*Bar and Fastburn Nutrition Program is to burn more stored body fat by moderating carbohydrate intake. To achieve this, we give each customer a personalized Fastburn Nutrition Program. The Fastburn Nutrition Program will help you attain the balance your body needs to store less fat, improve sports performance, and maintain blood sugars.

The PR*Bar and Fastburn Nutrition Program are designed to enhance your body’s natural ability to burn body fat while maintaining or increasing lean body mass (LBM). Diets high in carbohydrates can store as much as 40 percent fat. Diets low in protein can leave you weak and without the nutrients your body needs to help rebuild LBM (muscles, bones, and other tissues). Low-fat, low-protein diets can cause you to feel tired and crave sweets.

A diet or meal high in carbohydrates and low in protein and fat increases your blood sugar level. As a result, your body releases a hormone called insulin. Elevated insulin levels prevent you from burning stored body fat, so you burn sugar from carbohydrates for energy. A diet with the appropriate ratio of carbohydrates, protein, and fat will stabilize blood sugars, control insulin levels, and increase the production of the hormone glucagon, which increases your body’s ability to use stored sugars and access body fats that are then burned for energy. The Special PR*Protein blend plus vitamins and minerals, antioxidants, low-glycemic carbohydrate sources, and quality essential fatty acids make up the PR*Bar. When you combine the PR*Bar with the Fastburn Nutrition Program, which uses the same balance of carbohydrates, protein, and fat, you can achieve impressive results.

The Building Blocks of a Healthy Body
Carbohydrates, protein, and fat are the macro-nutrients that our bodies need every day in addition to vitamins and minerals. PR*Nutrition believes that every meal you eat should have a balance of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats. This combination of nutrients can help you access stored body fat and maintain blood sugar levels.

Carbohydrates
Carbohydrates provide energy, but they can’t be stored in large amounts. Our bodies can store only about 2,000 calories of this type of energy. The rest is stored as fat. When you eat a high-carbohydrate meal, such as pasta with bread, or a high-carbohydrate snack, like a bagel, as much as 40 percent of it can be stored as fat.

Proteins
Proteins are the building blocks for our ligaments, tendons, and muscles. Protein is used continuously during aerobic exercise. However, it is stored in small amounts. Lack of protein during moderate to heavy exercise may actually force your body to replenish its supply of protein from muscle. Rather than losing the fat you are exercising so hard to get rid of, you run the risk of losing too much muscle.

Fats
Fats is not a four-letter word. Well, it is, but that doesn’t mean that all fat is bad. Fats play an important role in nutrition. They provide energy, help the body maintain normal temperature, are a component of all body cells, and carry fat-soluble vitamins (A, D, E, and K) through the body. The key is how much and which kinds of fat we eat.