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“Those who think they have no time for healthy eating, will sooner or later have to find time for illness.”
– Edward Stanley

What to eat before traveling is another simple question, but one with a lot of potential bad answers. If you’re in an airplane, you won’t feel too comfortable if what you ate before boarding was cabbage, baked beans or any other food that produces gases. Their effects aren’t really that

pleasant on land, but they gets worse at altitude because air expands in your stomach and digestive tract up to 30 per cent. And it gets worse if you had a carbonated drink to go with that food.

What you want to eat when traveling, whether by plane or by car, is a low-calorie food that travels well. You’ll be sitting for hours so you won’t need a lot of calories. Also, the immobility of sitting in a train (or plane, coach or car) for more than four hours slows down the blood flow making it more prone to clotting. Read the rest of this post »

“Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.”
– Voltaire

Regardless of whether you ate before your workout or not, you shouldn’t avoid eating after the exercise. Of course, you don’t need to eat extra if your workout was an hour long easy walk. If you had a high-intensity workout of at least 50 minutes though, it is crucial to eat afterwards.

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“To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.”
– La Rochefoucauld

What to eat before a workout, a simple question with a simple yet complex answer.

Most people are unsure whether it is a good strategy to eat before a workout, and so they might only eat after their exercise. Others think it is best to eat before exercise and not after. And while both strategies are good for performance, health and fitness, what to eat is dependent on several factors — length and type of exercise, health factors that might influence the way you process food. What is certain however is that nutrition plays a big role in building fitness.

Your choice of foods before you exercise can make or break your workout. As they say, food is fuel, and it is important to have some fuel prior to exercising. It serves several functions:

• Fuels your muscles. Both with food eaten in the days before as well as the hour or two before.
• Helps settle your stomach and avoid hunger after the workout.
• Helps prevent low blood sugar (hypoglycemia). Hypoglycemia symptoms include nausea, headaches and dizziness.
• Strengthens your mental state by knowing that your body has enough energy for the exercise. Read the rest of this post »
  

The meal you eat before bed is just as important as any of the other meals you consume daily. If you are careful with what you eat before bedtime, you will find that you are able to sleep much better as a result. As a matter of fact, you might be able to even cure your insomnia by eating the proper foods before going to bed. Of course, opinions vary when it comes to when exactly to eat before going to bed. Whether you choose two hours, fifteen minutes or any other time, the decisive factor should be your personal preference so don’t be afraid to experiment. Read the rest of this post »

Speaking in front of a crowd is a very difficult task for most people, and some would prefer to die rather than do it. But even those who do it without much trouble can face concentration and emotional issues.

Concentration is a process of distraction from less important matters. It is not the time to think about the cut of your coat when you are up on the platform, so the ideal thing is to center your interest on what you are about to say. Easy to plan on doing it, but many things can go wrong, one of the most important ones being what you just ate. Read the rest of this post »