Tips
By: Ana Carla Portella
The athlete’s diet is very important to promote the best sports performance and to avoid nutritional deficiencies. With a balanced diet, you can improve energy stores, reduce diseases, reduce fatigue, increase athlete’s uptime, recover muscles after training and improve overall health.
The diet should be balanced, have quality, variety and moderation. Therefore, it is important to know the foods to know in what they can help or hinder in the sporting performance.
CARBOHYDRATES:
They are considered as energy nutrients, since they have the function of supplying the necessary energy for the body to perform activities such as walking, working, studying, running, playing soccer and others. They are found in foods such as breads, pasta (without greasy sauces), rice, potatoes, fruits, cassava, cereals, etc.
2.PROTEINS:
They are considered building nutrients, because they build and repair muscles, tissues, cells, produce antibodies (to fight diseases and infections), enzymes and hormones (which regulate body functions). Its sources are: meats, eggs, milk and dairy products, beans, peas, lentils, chickpeas, nuts, etc.
