21/01/2021
NUTRITION 🍎🥦🫐
A balanced diet is important for our bodies as it supplies all the nutrients your body needs to work effectively, without a balanced diet you leave yourself more prone to disease and infection, fatigue, and lower levels of performance.
Using the eat eel plate is a good guide as to what and how much of each food group your body needs to be balanced.
If weight loss if your goal, you need to make sure that you are in a calorie deficit (burning more calories than you are consuming).
HYDRATION 💧
According to the recommended daily intake, we should be drinking around 1.2-1.5 litres a day (roughly 6-8 glasses). Hydration is important as it helps us to regulate our body temperature, keeps joint lubricated, prevents infection, aids nutrient delivery to the body cells, and keeps organs functioning efficiently. It can also help with improving sleep quality, cognitive function, and mood.
Whilst it is important that you fuel your body correctly, it is also important that you include exercise into your routine. The recommended guidelines suggest adult should complete 150 minutes of moderate intensity activity a week, or 75 minutes of vigorous activity per week. These are only guidelines, the more than better!
