Important Nutrients For Athletes And Where To Find Them
Life is busy and finding time to eat a nutritionally balanced diet can be a struggle. We live in a culture of convenience foods which may not always be packed with the essential nutrients that your body requires; especially if you are active regularly. Couple that with conflicting and confusing sports nutrition available and it can be an absolute mission trying to figure out what to eat and when. If you train a lot or partake in competitive sports, then having a basic understanding of eating to fuel your activity is essential.
Today our head dietitian, Michelle, wants to highlight some key nutrients that are worth prioritising in your diet if you take part in regular activity and where to find them.
Is Organic Food Worth The Price?
Every year, the EWG publish their Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce, colloquially known as the “clean fifteen” and “dirty dozen”, which ranks the health and safety of certain foods based on the pesticides used in their production, and whether or not they are genetically modified organisms.
