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Essential Nutrients
WATER
Essential component for life and abundant in most foods. Water is absorbed in the intestine and then transported by the blood to other organs. Can be found in the body as part of the intracellular cell protoplasm and extracellular, and interstitial fluid, lymph, and as part of blood plasma.
FUNCTIONS
- Transportation of nutrients and waste products
- Regulation of body temperature
- Solvent substances
- Structural component of cells
Water is excreted through urine, feces, skin and lungs. The balance between loss and gain of water should be neutral because a positive balance of ending a picture of water retention and a negative a picture of dehydration.
Nutrition Tips
The benchmarks that follow consumption can cover the total dietary energy in a sport. These contributions must be divided into 3 meals per day minimum, plus one or two snacks if the time between meals is more than 4 hours. Training should not immediately follow the meal so as not to disturb the digestion. It is recommended that a minimum of 3 hours between meals and training, a minimum of 1 hour between a meal and a workout, and 2 hours between breakfast and training.
Spend at least 35 minutes of ingesting food as satiety signals do not appear immediately after ingestion of food. Remember that while chewing reduces the time for digestion and allows nutrients to be absorbed in greater quantities by the body.
Vary the food. This is the best way to cover the needs for vitamins and minerals. This allows more to take more pleasure in eating and avoid monotony ..
The natural diet largely covers the needs of the athlete, he has no need to use nutritional supplements that may be harmful to their health: competing in the assimilation, kidney problems, allergies, addiction, …