Healthy Eating Guide: Part 2
Posted November 15th, 2006 at 4:00 PM by Jonathan Faccone
Section: Nutrition, Healthy Eating, Supplements
This is Part 2 of my Healthy Eating Guide. Make sure to first go back and read Part 1! In addition, if you’d like personalized help with healthy eating, please send an email to thefinalsprint@gmail.com
Many people have adopted a mindset that healthy eating is a burden, rather then a necessity and way to make yourself feel better (in addition to making you look better). In order to get the most out of your life, you need to embrace a healthy diet. You might think that eating six smaller meals a day is unrealistic, but you’ll be surprised just how it easy it can be to make it work. It takes only five minutes each day to think about how you’re going to schedule your meals and snacks for the next day. Planning is the key for setting up and sticking to an eating program. Have you ever heard the saying “If you fail to plan, plan to fail”? It’s some of the best advice I can give you and is applicable for everything in your life - including living a healthy lifestyle.
Most people have the solid three meals a day covered (and yes, breakfast is still the most important meal of the day). But how do you work out the other 3 small meals?
This is where food supplementation products can really help out and aid you along the path to a healthy diet - no matter how busy your life may be.
Supplementation is a quick and efficient way to meet your required meals with minimal preparation (which is one of the many reasons why the market is expanding at an exponential rate). Stores like The Vitamin Shoppe, GNC, Whole Foods, Traders Joe’s and even many local grocery stores now sell meal-replacement bars, shakes and snacks that contain a mixture of essential nutrients. If you’re on the go and just don’t have enough time to prepare a meal - then grab a bar or a shake and bring them to work or school. They are portable and will ALWAYS be healthier than the slop in the cafeteria or in the vending machine. You should certainly try to focus on raw and home-cooked meals, but if that’s impossible, for whatever reason, then food supplementation can be the next best thing.
It’s easy to feel overwhelmed when you walk into a Vitamin Shoppe, for example, and see a million different meal-replacement products that are labeled as high-protein, low-carb, organic, or even energy boosting. Too many people head straight for the low-carb bars or use misconceptions in coming to their decision. Many people think that calories or carbs are the most important nutritional factors in choosing food and/or supplements, but that’s not necessarily the case. Calories and carbs in natural and healthy foods are derived from essential nutrients such as fiber, protein, complex carbohydrates. These nutrients are essential to your bodies’ performance. However, other foods, like doughnuts for example, contain calories that stem from fats and sugars which serve little use to the body and will likely be stored as fat.
Therefore when you’re looking at the nutritional labels, instead of looking at strictly calories or carbs, you should also be considering the types of nutrients that they contain. Meal-replacements to stay away from include ones with a high sugar content, sugar alcohols, saturated fat, transfat and high-fructose corn syrup. Avoid those products and focus your attention on bars, shakes or protein puddings that contain whole-grain carbs, high amounts of fiber, little to no saturated or trans fats, and substantial amounts of protein. Since everyone has a different dieting goal (weight loss, adding muscle, etc), its almost impossible to make one general recommendation. However, the before-mentioned tips are universally applicable and quite vital.
If you would like customized recommendations - we’d be happy to help. Just send an email to thefinalsprint@gmail.com with your current nutritional goals and your typical diet. We’ll get back to you the very next day with some recommendations to help you look and feel your best!
Sources: [Powering Muscles], [Health Goods], [Cleveland Clinic], [Mercola]
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There are many factors to your performance, but one of the keys is having your body in top condition and provided with the best nutrition. While most people understand that nutrition is a major factor in keeping our bodies healthy, sport nutrition requires eating healthy to an even higher level. While most experienced endurance athletes know the importance of eating and drinking enough calories, some do not consume enough nutrition for their sport. When establishing a proper nutrition plan for endurance athletes, you still need to factor in exactly which sport they are training for competition. Very cheap food supplements will not give your body the proper nutrition when you are eating to maintain a diet for a particular sport. When it comes to potentially performance-enhancing supplements, one option is to, consult a sport nutrition expert for help. Another is sports nutrition presentations and booklets usually placed all over supplement and nutrition stores. And of course, sites with sport nutrition articles and sport nutrition blogs like this one are great places to get the information you’re looking for.
December 1st, 2006 at 11:49 pmIt would be great to see interviews of handicapped runners. They have special needs and challenges and their advice would be helpful to others who run with disabilites. Perhaps your more senior writers like Martha Jones or Jeanie Reb could handle such an assignment.
December 3rd, 2006 at 9:57 pmYour sites new format is great. Very
professional looking! Keep up the good work.
Thanks
Sid
Thanks Sid. We are actually doing an interview at the end of December with Rudy Garcia Tolson. He is a handicapped runner who won a Paralympic Gold Medal in Athens (2004) in the the 400m.
Also, I’ll pass along the praise Jeanie and Martha.
Thanks again,
Adam
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December 3rd, 2006 at 10:19 pmAdam Jacobs
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