RG Active- Diet And Nutrition

Diet And Nutrition

It's important to understand the effect that food has on your body and to learn how to eat the right balance of healthy and not-so-healthy foods. It's also important that you're able to enjoy what you're eating, knowing that you're giving your body everything it needs.

Your food choices can have a long-term impact on your health. There is good evidence that eating a healthy diet can reduce your risk of illnesses such as diabetes, obesity, heart disease, stroke, osteoporosis and cancer (particularly bowel cancer). Why healthy eating is important?

The food you eat contains many types of nutrients and fibre. These are all required for many vital processes in your body. Examples of some of these, and what your body uses them for, are as follows:

* CARBOHYDRATES - your body's preferred source of energy. All your organs (including your heart, lungs, brain and digestive system) need a constant supply of energy to work properly. You also need energy to grow and repair your body's tissues, keep you warm and to power your muscles for movement

* PROTEIN - another source of energy and essential for the growth and repair of all tissues in your body

* FAT - a highly concentrated source of energy that also helps transport essential vitamins around your body

* VITAMINS and MINERALS - there are many different vitamins and minerals which all have different and important functions in your body. For example, iron is needed to transport oxygen in your blood, calcium and vitamin D are essential for healthy bones, vitamin C is important for wound healing, and vitamin A helps to keep your eyes healthy

* FIBRE - helps keep your digestive system healthy and controls your cholesterol and blood sugar levels

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Diet and Nutrition

There is an old saying .You are what you eat! Actually you are what you eat, digest, assimilate and utilize.

It is not just the types of food that you eat but how they affect your body at a cellular level. Each of us has individual needs and requirements for foods to optimize our health and performance.

In the field of sports performance nutrition the requirements for nutritional support for specific sports is a pre- requisite for sporting success. Not only will the correct foods enhance performance but they will assist in recovery and repair and result in injury prevention.

Nutrition can benefit performance in many ways, both physically and mentally. Following a good nutritional program will benefit many aspects of health and performance, some of which are listed below:

Enhanced endurance capacity

Muscular strength and power gains

Reduced fatigue

Improved technical ability

Improved concentration

Enhanced bone density

Better body composition measures

Enhanced recovery

Reduced incidence of injury

Reduced illness

Increased confidence

Making weight healthily

Improved mental attitude

Better consistent performance

Due to the nature of farming practices today it is virtually impossible to obtain a balance diet. Athletes and sports people whose nutritional needs are even greater therefore get invaluable help from sports nutritional assessments.

David offers a unique approach to nutritional assessment by utilizing high tech diagnostic equipment and advanced functional laboratory tests to ascertain nutritional needs and create bespoke nutritional plans to enhance any athletes nutrition program.

If you would like to know more about how RG Active and David in particular could help you with your Diet and Nutrition drop him an email and ask questions, book a Nutrition test and you would be amazed how much a bit of knowledge in this area can benefit your sport and everyday life!