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Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Nutrition x's dos
Parents! Proper nutrition is especially important for your young athlete. They need help making the right eating decisions. Surround them with healthy foods and snacks. Here is a very basic guideline to follow that will help tremendously with your child's athletic performance:
Base your diet on garden vegetable, especially greens, lean meats, nuts and seeds, little starch, and no sugar.
Buy 90% of your groceries from the perimeter of the store. Avoid the aisles.
Food is perishable, anything with a long shelf life is suspect.
Excessive consumption of high-glycemic carbohydrates is the primary culprit in nutritionally caused health problems. High glycemic carbohydrates are those that raise blood sugar too rapidly. They include rice, bread, candy, potato, sweets, sodas, and most processed carbohydrates. Processing can include bleaching, baking, grinding, and refining. Processing of carbohydrates greatly increases their glycemic index, a measure of their propensity to elevate blood sugar.
That's it in a nutshell. The risks of not eating healthy far outweigh the difficulties of doing so. Poor diet has been linked to a plague of health problems for modern man. Coronary heart disease, diabetes, cancer, osteoporosis, obesity and psychological dysfunction are all horrible outcomes of poor diet choice.
Besides that, your kids are incredibly active and constantly busy. They need as much energy as possible to perform at their top level all the time. So clean out those candy drawers and get creative.
Base your diet on garden vegetable, especially greens, lean meats, nuts and seeds, little starch, and no sugar.
Buy 90% of your groceries from the perimeter of the store. Avoid the aisles.
Food is perishable, anything with a long shelf life is suspect.
Excessive consumption of high-glycemic carbohydrates is the primary culprit in nutritionally caused health problems. High glycemic carbohydrates are those that raise blood sugar too rapidly. They include rice, bread, candy, potato, sweets, sodas, and most processed carbohydrates. Processing can include bleaching, baking, grinding, and refining. Processing of carbohydrates greatly increases their glycemic index, a measure of their propensity to elevate blood sugar.
That's it in a nutshell. The risks of not eating healthy far outweigh the difficulties of doing so. Poor diet has been linked to a plague of health problems for modern man. Coronary heart disease, diabetes, cancer, osteoporosis, obesity and psychological dysfunction are all horrible outcomes of poor diet choice.
Besides that, your kids are incredibly active and constantly busy. They need as much energy as possible to perform at their top level all the time. So clean out those candy drawers and get creative.
Monday, September 20, 2010
Nutrition
Eating what we are supposed to eat is hard. Period. We have all tried to eat healthy, and it seems to only last a week, or a month, until we can't resist the urge to munch on some potato chips, or gummy worms, or get a soda on a long road trip (or until our wallets are empty). We tell ourselves it's only this once, besides, we can't go totally cold turkey, that'd be impossible, ha!
The fact is, it's hard. Soda pop is the second hardest addiction to break; it beats heroin on the difficulty level to quit. Probably because it's so readily available, probably because it's cool and refreshing on the tongue, probably because it's delicious.
The fact is, you can't totally give up eating everything that's bad for you. But you can definitely make it easier to choose to eat the good stuff. As an athlete, the physical demands you place on your body are much greater than a non-athlete. As a young athlete, your body can handle a lot more punishment than an adult's. You may think that you're invincible and junk food has no affect. Ha, those adults are stupid! I totally ate 12 doughnuts before that soccer game and felt just fine! Maybe so, but it will not always be that way.
The fact is, it's only hard because it's not part of our routine. Start now! Make it a habit to polish off those greens, drink water or sports drinks instead of soda, eat those home cooked meals whenever you can. Try it, go without sugar for a week, or two weeks, and see if you can't run a little faster, or play a little harder or longer. You'll notice a difference, and you're body will thank you in 5 years.
The fact is, it's hard. Soda pop is the second hardest addiction to break; it beats heroin on the difficulty level to quit. Probably because it's so readily available, probably because it's cool and refreshing on the tongue, probably because it's delicious.
The fact is, you can't totally give up eating everything that's bad for you. But you can definitely make it easier to choose to eat the good stuff. As an athlete, the physical demands you place on your body are much greater than a non-athlete. As a young athlete, your body can handle a lot more punishment than an adult's. You may think that you're invincible and junk food has no affect. Ha, those adults are stupid! I totally ate 12 doughnuts before that soccer game and felt just fine! Maybe so, but it will not always be that way.
The fact is, it's only hard because it's not part of our routine. Start now! Make it a habit to polish off those greens, drink water or sports drinks instead of soda, eat those home cooked meals whenever you can. Try it, go without sugar for a week, or two weeks, and see if you can't run a little faster, or play a little harder or longer. You'll notice a difference, and you're body will thank you in 5 years.
Friday, September 10, 2010
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