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.
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