Cottage Cheese

Cottage cheese is the perfect food for getting casein protein, a slow-digesting protein. Casein protein stays in your system for hours and gives you a constant supply of protein, as opposed to whey protein that is used in the body instantly. Casein protein is most ideal for sleeping hours, when your body is deprived of protein. When you sleep, your body enters a catabolic phase. Yes…even when you sleep you burn energy. Respiration, dreaming, and reparation require energy. It needs to get the energy stores from somewhere. Anytime you go more than 4 hours without eating, your body turns to its muscle stores, breaking it down, so it can use that as its readily available energy, you want to avoid this at all costs. Cottage cheese is filled with casein protein, which is a very slow digesting protein that will keep your muscles supplied with protein all throughout the night and prevent this catabolic state. Furthermore, cottage cheese has an extremely high biological value (around 85%) that is ideal for muscle growth. If you eat cottage cheese before you go to bed then stick with consuming low-fat cottage cheese to avoid storing fat overnight. Cottage cheese also is high in calcium, which helps increase bone strength and density, which is essential in fighting off osteoporosis. Also, calcium consumption has also been linked with up to a 60% reduction in metabolic syndrome.

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