Thought I would take some time and discuss what I first applied when I started to change my dietary habits.
Learn all you can about the food groups as this will be your base for dietary changes down the road. Learn WHY your body needs each food group to function at its best this will make it easier to convince yourself to eat the daily requirement for each food group.
Become best friends with a notepad and pen. Writing down what you eat will make you become aware of your food choices, portions and make it easier to change your diet.
Taking certain nutritional supplements for muscle building is not absolutely necessary; you can do without them, however, some of them really do have their advantages. They can give you an added physical and mental edge.
They help to enhance performance and can help in the muscle-building process. Although some are a waste of your time money and effort, there are a few that do actually perform.
Supplements help to fulfill the missing link that may occur during an intense muscle-building phase.
You do need some supplements for greater muscle growth.
Here are the supplements I’d recommend for Muscle-building.
Unfortunately, America ranks to be one of the highest
competitors on the list of obesity. It kind of makes you
wonder if Americans are getting used to the idea of
being fat, or has their perception of what fat is, changed
in the past couple of decades.
I mean, honestly, think about it. Everywhere you go, you
see that extra spare tire and man boobs on people
passing by, and the sad thing is, that we see this so
often, that it has become acceptable in our society and
we hardly think twice about it, and sometimes don’t
even notice it.
Last year a friend wanted to me write for a project she had for her job. She was working on a web site addressing the needs of people who were ill or caregivers of the ill. The site provides a space for these folks to share their stories and offer (and receive) support and encouragement.
As a registered dietitian, a nutritionist, she was asking me to describe changing comfort foods into more nutritious foods. We talked about our own comfort foods, and for me, this included a specific brand of vanilla, mashed potatoes and tuna fish on toast with french fries (for some reason, all my comfort foods are what I call “white foods”-except chocolate, of course). Macaroni and cheese seemed to be a popular item, and she suggested that I come up with a way to modify it to make it more nutritious.
The one thing I always get asked about sports nutrition is what should I eat in order to perform at peak levels during training and races.
An athlete’s body is subjected to enormous amount of strain during workouts. Also a great amount of energy is required and consumed during these periods. In order to perform well, the muscles must be strong enough and has enough energy to sustain the vigorous activities required during workouts.
Omega 3’s are ‘good fats’. Omegas are not stored by the body as excess fat, they are absorbed and utilised by the body in a number of extremely beneficial ways. Omega 3 fatty acids are important for brain function and research has showed that they may play an important role in vision, co-ordination, learning ability, memory, concentration and behaviour. When our mothers told us that fish was ‘brain food’, she wasn’t kidding! Omega 3 fatty acids cannot be produced by the body so we must obtain them through diet.
Many doctors and scientists believe that many cancers could be prevented with a good diet. Here are a few foods that have been shown to decrease the incidence of cancer.
Tomatoes
Tomatoes are loaded with vitamin C. They also contain lycopene, which may explain a recent popular Italian study finding that people who ate raw tomatoes at least seven times per week halved their risk of several cancers as compared to those who ate tomatoes no more than once a week. Tomatoes are also rich in coumaric acid and chlorogenic acid, which hook onto nitric oxides in the foods we eat and spirit them out of the body before they can form cancer-causing chemicals called notrosamines. Tomatoes and broccoli together have been shown to decrease the growth of tumors in prostate cancer.
One of the most horrific trends today is the alarming increase in childhood obesity. There are so many reasons why this is happening and I’m sure all of us could list several of these reasons off the top of our heads. If you are the parent of an obese child, it is extremely important to take the proper steps to helping your child today!
If you don’t feel that you obese child is in need of help, that would be the first issue for you to resolve. Not only does your child need help from a health perspective, you need to remember that children can be very mean to other children. Being an overweight child is not an easy life to live.
When I was working at the hospital, in the ‘90’s, we accepted dietetic interns and one of those interns was a student from Singapore, whose husband was in medical school at the same time. Their plan was to return to Singapore to open their own wellness center. I share this because it was from this couple that I was first introduced to the concept of calorie restriction (CR) for longevity. This concept appears to be taking on new interest, and with today’s obesity epidemic, I thought it would be a good topic to write about.