Tuesday, July 31, 2007

You have to eat

Like many active people who are constantly feeling stressed, grabbing hit-or-miss meals, juggling work with workouts, fighting fatigue, and exercising intensely, you may have turned to vitamin supplements as a panacea to guard your health, compensate for a diet filled with processed foods, enhance your athletic abilities, boost your energy, and promote future "super health. but take note: the same ads and salespeople that entice you to supplements generally downplay importance of food. still need eat wellregardless number pills pop. a supplementif choose one should be part larger plan for an optimal sports diet. your first priority fundamental foods supply vitamins other nutrients need. too many people vitamin pill breakfast in preparation their chocolate chip cookie lunch.they naively believe satisfies 100 percent nutritional needs. are wrong. yes may get needs with pill. we also proteinminerals energyfiber phytochemicals - nonvitamin compounds protect our no provides (calories) nor does it compensate meal sugars fats. poppers naive think any type can magically make up erosive lifestyle.s unlikely commonly occurring diseases agingsuch as diabetes or heart diseaseis caused by deficiency single nutrient.
from Nancy Clark's Sports Nutrition Guidebook (updated, expanded second edition) by Nancy Clark, MS, RD, (Human Kinetics, 1997), p. 201