The Game Changers got 1 thing right………plant foods are exceptional for health and sport performance and with Veganuary upon us, never have plant foods been such a hot topic!
WHAT’S IN A PLANT?
Each plant food has a unique mix of health-giving compounds called polyphenols represented by their wonderful colours. The polyphenols are packaged together with the plant’s fibre, vitamin and mineral rich bodies.
Plant rich diets are characterised by having a high polyphenol and antioxidant content shown to be capable of improving your health
SO HOW DO PLANT FOODS WORK ON YOUR HEALTH AND PERFORMANCE?
Numerous large human studies have concluded that diets rich in plant foods containing these phenolic compounds (vegetables, fruits, spices etc) such as the Mediterranean diet, lower risk of mortality. These plant-rich diets are characterised by having a high polyphenol and antioxidant content shown to be capable of improving your health……from your cells outwardly to the rest of your body. This ultimately enables your genes to express themselves positively to support optimal health and longevity.
WHAT DOES GOOD CELL HEALTH AND GENE EXPRESSION MEAN TO YOU?
If your cells are happy and your genes are expressing themselves positively you can expect to benefit from:
– Reduced inflammation
– Reduced mental stress
– Reduced physical stress
– Increase vitality
– Increase performance
– Improve muscle skeletal health
– Improve collagen quality (hair, skin, nails)
– Improved immunity
– Improved brain health
READ ABOUT A CASE STUDY?
Part of our work is with a team supporting elite athletes with their human performance. Our nutritional approach involves blood testing the athlete to assess how their health, hormones, performance and recovery markers are managing when pitted against a backdrop of busy lifestyles and their elite exercise training load.
The take home is that if the athletes keep on top of eating healthy carbs, increasing their protein intake and super importantly….eating 10 portions of plant foods a day, they perform and recover better, both physically and mentally. If they veer away from the nutrition approach, we see their health, hormonal, performance and recovery blood markers affected negatively.
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR YOU?
Modern living means we all live our lives like elite athletes; the playing field maybe different represented instead by heavy workloads, family commitments, poor sleep and other lifestyle factors but the outcome is the same. It all causes a chronic stress load like what the elite athletes would endure.
Each of the breakfast bombs has plenty of SUPER plant foods high in polyphenols
SO WHAT’S THE ANSWERS!
Life is hectic, time is poor, and we sometimes don’t want to think about how to achieve an elite athletes diet! This is one of the reasons I was inspired to work with Military Health and their nurtured Nutri-shakes. We have worked hard to make sure each of these complete meals have plenty of SUPER plant foods high in polyphenols. Each Nutri-shake has over 15 grams of mixed plant protein together with healthy fibre, carbs and fats……. basically, using the foods and nutrition approach I use with athletes.
I am super proud of the outcome; quick, easy, and delicious nutritional Nutri-Shakes!
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