Recovery Nutrition is essential Always eat a meal / snack within 30 minutes of finishing all exercise/sport. This is the best time of the day to include carbohydrate in a meal, be it fruit, vegetable or starchy carb. Not eating…
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Prior to an event such as UTA 50km or 100Km many people start to wonder if they need to “carb load” . The short answer is yes a little bit, but don’t go crazy adding extra pasta and bread to…
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– as we make it in the body rather than absorb it from our diet. It is vitally important for endurance athletes. Vitamin D is essential for many functions in the body as nearly every tissue and cell type have…
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Water is the most abundant constituent of the body representing approximately 60{4f7bf5ffc4dd2943527b9e13cad40ba8015823b935bc089078976a593dc77d18} of the body weight. Water is essential to virtually every body function including digestion, absorption and transport of nutrients, elimination of body waste and regulation of body temperature,…
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Exercise is an important and vital part of a weight management program, but it isn’t everything. A well-balanced whole food diet is the key, and getting the timing and content of your pre and post workout meals could be the…
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What part of your diet has the greatest impact on your brain function, mental health and wards off depression and anxiety? Much of the latest nutrition research has been focused on our micro biome or gut health. Your microbiome is…
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My top four reasons: 1. Helps to stabilise blood sugar levels to avoid energy slumps and the roller coaster of consent cravings 2. Makes you feel satisfied after eating 3. Provides you with the building blocks (amino acids) that make…
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Which are healthy, which are not Carbohydrates are our major source of fuel. The brain needs glucose, and the most efficient source is from carbohydrates. For most people around 100-150 grams of carbs per day is adequate. This is very…
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What are they and why are they important ? Probiotic foods are also known as cultured or lacto fermented foods, and they have been part of most traditional diets. They are ‘Live’ foods. Lacto fermentation was used as a way…
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