Month: April 2018
Many people think that athletes are examples of health and that it is strictly related to their nutrition plans and a lot of exercise. Well, in some cases it is true, but there are still people who consider themselves as athletes and practice some totally inappropriate diet, what may finally end in serious health problems. The next time you will meet one of them, try to speak about following issues to make sure, that they know what and why they are eating.
Extra proteins will help you to gain more muscles
Professional nutrition plans for athletes prohibit more than 2.5 times higher protein intake than it is shown in RDA. The higher intake can be responsible for dehydration or even severe problems with liver or kidney. Furthermore there is no scientific proof that high-protein diet will effect in gaining extra muscles.
Athlete should intake fluid when he is thirsty
One of the most common problems in athlete’s life is the possibility of dehydration. Even when an athlete is not thirsty, he may need additional fluid to drink, for every lost pound of weight should be replaced with no less than two cups of water.
Nutrition plan for athletes before competition should not contain sugar
We must remember that sugar gives us energy, so small intakes of this carbohydrate will not only bring no harm, but even can be beneficial for the performance of the athlete.
Sport drinks are good only for those athletes who exercise a lot
Again, we speak about the danger of dehydration. While the total water loss due to exercises may wary depending on the type of exercises, conditions of the gym and the health status of the athlete, the possible problems caused by dehydration are so severe that there should be no restriction in drinking sport drinks, even by those who exercise for less than an hour a day.
You can lose weight when you exercise a lot
This is another common myth. Of course when we consider the water loss as loss of the weight, we may still believe in this superstition, thus endangering ourselves to dehydration. A true athlete, however, knows that every water loss must be replaced as soon as possible and the best and the safest way to loose some additional weight is by proper nutrition for athletes.
While we all want to have healthy and good looking bodies we must remember that not everyone can be an athlete. And when we finally become one of them,we should always keep in mind a single fact, only proper nutrition for athletes, free of popular, but false, beliefs and myths can let us not only stay for years in good shape but also win.
We often gasp at the prospect of trying a new diet program. Please focus in for a minute on the word “diet.” What comes to mind? Low calorie foods, low carbohydrates, and no fat. Without a doubt there many different variations regarding what constitutes an effective diet program. Some of these include no carbs, low carbs, or slow carbs. Also, there’s no fat, some fat, or a lot of fat. Then there’s no protein, low protein, or all protein. Where is a person who wants to lose weight and burn fat turn? What nutrition, that’s right, NUTRITION, not DIET program is the best for you? Do you want to sample a wide variety of tasty food that takes care of burning the fat and provides the proper nutrition to kick start your metabolism.
When we’re searching for the right NUTRITION program for your needs, we must always start with the basic function of human physiology. All of our nutrition needs are based around metabolism. Again, let me say, metabolism “rules the roost” in our bodies’ gastrointestinal physiological (GI) processes. Remember back to your basic high school biology class and recall the three main purposes of the GI system:
1) circulation;
2) secretion; and most importantly when battling weight,
3) digestion and motility (basically this means how the body consumes energy). When we eat, we’re basically consuming energy. The types of energy (food) that we consume effect how the body responds from a physiological standpoint.
Alright, let’s take a break from the technical and shift to the practical. There are two ways that our bodies can process food: store it or burn it. Pretty simple isn’t it-that is it sounds simple. If you’re like me and don’t like guess work when it comes to nutrition, you’ll need guidance. We all want to turn our bodies into fat burning furnaces. Finding the right program to build that fat fireplace is the key. We also need a program that is simple and easy to implement that provides the right foods at the right time and results in a nutritional plan that is actually tasty and not bland. There are some very basics that all metabolic nutritional plans that actually burn fat have in common:
1) watch the sugar! Just because it’s low in fat doesn’t mean that a lot of sugar is alright;
2) mix up the food. The human body has a tendency to adapt to the same routine. To be effective, you’ve got keep your GI system guessing;
3) keep it user-friendly. Find a nutritional guide to work for you and not the reverse.
People are very busy and don’t have time to cater to their diet plans. Their nutrtional plans need to cater to them.