NUTRITION AND SUPPLEMENT

Most of us are aware of the fact that it is very important to eat fruits and vegetables which gives you protein and carbohydrate. But is it really sufficient to eat those. Maximum numbers of people in the world does not consume enough amounts of vitamins and other nutrients from their diet alone. Inadequate intake of vitamins has been linked to the chronic disease, coronary heart disease and cancer. Martial artist like karate trainee must be very prepared to maintain their perfect diet schedule.

The modern lifestyle makes it enough tough for us to take complete nutrition’s. We are always in a rush for our daily life and miss our proteins, vitamins, minerals that are optimal for our health. Food supplements are the quickest and easiest way to fulfill our nutrition gap. So, we could invest our time completely in our daily activities. 

Just look around and you can find that the people are undernourished and overfed. Increasing weight has become a very common problem and can be seen even in children’s also. It is feel that we are consuming fabricated food these days which are high in calorie and very low in nutritional values. These small deficiencies may lead further to huge disorders and illness problems such as nervousness, restlessness, general aches, pains, weakness, muscle fatigue and depression.

There are many reasons which indicate that the food materials are deficient in Nutritional values. Some of them are:

Soil Depletion – Application of fertilizers, synthetic ingredients for increasing growth causes damage to the food crops. Millions of food material is degenerated due to their uses if not consumed fresh or in a fixed time period.

Commercial Food processing – The food which we today are processed in different ways unnaturally. They are exposed to various conditions like heat, light, oxygen and many for processing may lead to permanent damage to their natural ingredients and quality.

Environmental Pollution - It has been estimated that more than six million pounds of chemicals has been dumped by humans every year. They have been adding up the degenerative diseases. Breathing air, drinking water and even our food has been badly affected by this.

One should be very careful for his diet and make Shure he is getting complete values from them if not then one should consult a dietician. Martial Artists have always been taught about food nutrition, supplements and medicines from ancient times.