Nutrition

There has been a remarkable growth in the popularity of racket sports including tennis, badminton, squash and racket ball. This has been matched by sportsmen focusing more attention on improving their performance particularly through physiology and nutrition in order to improve their fitness levels.

My blog and business is centered around advising people to live a healthy lifestyle and supporting them in that quest. My blog in particular tries to be both inspirational and educational while showing people what it takes to have a healthy mind, body and spirit.

Today I have put together my best power foods. Something that I hear all the time is people asking what are the best foods for energy so today I want to offer you my best power foods list. It seems that we are plagued with a lack of energy, people struggling to get themselves up and running in the morning, and overcoming mid afternoon slumps.

A good body cleansing diet will help detoxify your body.  Think of detoxing your body as a spring clean. A detox diet will dramatically reduce the presence of unwanted toxins in your body.

As a fitness instructor I often get asked, do sports nutrition supplements work? A supplement is defined as “Something added to complete a thing, make up for a deficiency, or extend or strengthen the whole.”

If you know some of the reasons for tiredness then you can start making changes to give yourself more energy throughout the day. We all go through periods where we feel tired from time to time. Normally, it’s obvious what the cause of this is. Often we’re burning the candle at both ends. So we know that if we take time to rest and catch up with our sleep we will feel fine pretty quickly.

One of the best forms of exercise is going for a run and today I have compiled my top 10 energy foods for running. With the weather seemingly improving, I know there are a lot of people now planning to get started on running outdoors, which is a great form of exercise for both health and fitness.

At some point everyone has experienced tiredness after eating. I’m sure many of you have on Christmas Day chowed down on huge Christmas dinners where you have kept going putting food down your mouth for a marathon straight two hours. Devouring plates of turkey, beef, sausages, potatoes , stuffing, gravy and cranberry sauce and a wide array of vegetables. After polishing off your main course you then find the room for desserts ranging from Christmas pudding, mince pies and other delicious creamy gateaux’s.

Do energy drinks really energise your mind and your body or are energy drinks bad for you and not much else?

Today I want to mention my 5 natural energy foods that are part of my secret weapon to vitality in my old age. Now I know age is a perceived notion at best. As I learnt long ago age is just a number. But, as I find myself over 50, I shouldn’t be surprised that someone referred to me as a senior the other day. I wasn’t offended, as what he actually said was ‘Being a senior, elderly gentleman I find it amazing how vibrant and energetic you always are, you put me to shame.’ He happened to be 21, so just a baby compared to my seniors years, but sometimes when I see him he looks like he should be more my father’s age.

Although I have made the most of my break here on the island of Lanzarote I have also still been able to easily eat health, so today I want to tell you about good energy booster foods for your New Years diet, to help you raise your energy levels to an all time high.

On a recent visit to Cadbury’s World in Bourneville, Birmingham I said something with all sincerity that since has created some heated debate. What was it I said? Chocolate is better than sex!

Here is a question I’m asked all the time, how do you successfully lose weight? In truth the answer is quite simple: Burn more calories than you consume…

If you’re finding it difficult to concentrate you could need a boost of antioxidants. Antioxidants are naturally occurring substances in our body that help fight the oxidative damage to our cells. This damage is caused by an imbalance between the production of reactive oxygen and our body’s ability to detoxify or repair the resulting damage.

Milk Thistle is a flowering plant native to the Mediterranean, Africa and the Middle East, and its fruit and seeds have been used for thousands of years, for many different ailments, as a herbal remedy.

Fenugreek, a common ingredient in curry, may seem like a fairly innocuous herb at first glance, but it actually has a whole host of medicinal benefits that can help women’s health in a variety of different ways…