Diet Nutrition Sports & Wellbeing

Diet and nutrition can significantly affect our general health and more specifically the performance of athletes in sports. It is inescapable that if peak performance in sports and general health is to be achieved an optimum intake of the essential nutrients together with a healthy proportion of protein carbohydrates and fat must be consumed.
Albeit, nutrition is no substitute for fitness or skill, it certainly propels athletes and the general population to get the most out of their physical and mental abilities. On the contrary, general health and your body performance can be improved my dietary manipulations implying that there is indeed a need for each individual to pay careful attention to the actual composition of the diet they consumed.

For the sports man there are two very distinct aspects of diet and nutrition that must be considered. First is the diet to sustain training needs and must be consumed daily for the majority of the year. The second is the body’s dietary needs in the immediate pre-match period and during the season of competition.

The varying degrees of trauma to the musculoskeletal structure of the body and the physiological pressure on our body systems need to be repaired and replenished with physiologic accuracy. The wise individual must recognize that not because you are not sick doesn’t mean you are healthy. The words of John F. Kennedy must ring true that “Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a health body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.”