Nutritional supplements for everyone including sports people should be taken in addition to a healthy diet and not as a substitute for eating a poor diet. However, in today’s busy lifestyles where sports people push themselves to the limit and where highly processed foods, pesticides, pollution and stress are part and parcel of everyday life optimal nutritional status without supplementation is often difficult to achieve.
By eating a healthy diet and adding in appropriate nutritional supplements sports people can achieve optimal health, prevent injury, and attain the goals which they have set themselves for their particular sport.
General Nutrition advice for healthy eating
- Eat at least 5 portions of fruit and vegetables every day (excluding potatoes)
- Eat plenty of wholegrain complex carbohydrate products for energy. Foods such as bread rice and pasta
- Eat lean cuts of meat
- Eat oily fish such as sardines, mackerel, salmon at least once a week
- Cut down on high fat foods
- Try not to have sugary foods and drinks too often
- Drink sensibly- Men should drink no more that 3-4 units per day, women should drink no more than 2-3 units per day.
- Drink at least 2 litres of fluid a day (water) to maintain hydration.
