Fridge Nutrition

I truly believe everyday is a school day and we should learn something new at every opportunity. This should be made up of some factual, some fun and some life lessons. Here is what I have learnt today and I believe it is truly spectacular. I will leave it to you to decide which sections go into which category.

Whilst having a great session with a client over a tea (always makes for a good session) we were putting the running world to right and sorting out nutrition requirements. Tim my client was explaining how well his training was going for the half marathon in Oct and with only 3 weeks training it truly is.

We then moved on to the matter of nutrition. Many magazines, runners guides etc recommend high man made carbohydrate loading pre run. This however seems somewhat illogical to me and I was sharing my point with Tim. Why when manmade carbs cause you to have a blood spike and therefore store the food instantly as fat are they recommended to be consumed in large volumes to prepare you with instant marathon energy. If they suggest having more fat stores which take a long time to burn is good for long distance running then they are right or if you have no fat and need some they are right, otherwise I beg to differ. They have also forgotten to look at what negative implications this can have on the body.

We concluded it was important to eat protein and natural carbohydrates (vegetables, salad and fruit). Since it can be hard to eat enough nutrition during hectic lives Tim came up with a revolutionary idea. He, like many of us, has been told foods in the fridge lose their nutrition. However, the fridge is tightly sealed, how can the nutrients escape? Tim’s solution is to open the fridge take in a great breath and have one of your five a day from the floating nutrients. Phenomenal!