Nutrition and balanced diet

balanced diet is achieved when it does not take body fat, it avoids the shortcomings and retains shape and health. This requires a fine balance between variety, quantity and quality of inputs.

   A balanced diet is a broad concept that includes all the good eating habits to be healthy, do not be deficient and not to fat.We often think that food is something simple, whose sole purpose is to bring us the calories needed to live and play sports, as well as sufficient to build muscle proteins. However, power is something larger and more complex. It must cover our basic nutritional intake by providing carbohydrates, fats and proteins, but also vitamins, minerals, trace elements, fiber, water, ...No food eaten alone (even the best protein powder or the best weight gainer) is not complete enough to bring all these elements in the correct proportions. Our diet must consist of a variety of foods, which between them allow us to provide all that is necessary for our body and if possible just what is needed (not to take unnecessary fat). 

We must find a balance.

 In the diet, there is no bad food or prohibited with the exception of unsaturated fats, oils, animal fats, bread, sugar, pasta [...] are often maligned foods, but are not in themselves a threat to a balanced diet. Alone is often too dangerous to do that we use. All these foods are labeled bad actually essential to our balance, but if you know how to measure them. A good stew or a McDonalds' are not harmful eating habits, simply avoid abuse. 

There is therefore "no" forbidden foods, just foods whose consumption should be limited. To have a balanced diet, one should consume each family food (carbohydrates, proteins, but also lipids), so we must "eat everything". For cons, the consumption of each family food should be adjusted according to the physical activity.This is very important for us, practitioners training. Compared to sedentary (a person practicing any sport), we need to increase our intake of carbohydrates to have enough energy for training and especially protein for muscle recovery and growth.  

Attention carbohydrates does not mean simply sugars because all carbohydrates are not equal, and some are preferred or avoided (we return to this point in the case devoted to carbohydrates).

 balanced diet of sport is based on the food mix and choice of good sources of nutrients, as well as the adaptation of the volume of food in terms of its physical activity.