Following on from the post yesterday regarding the dangers of too much sugar, and the evils of corn syrup which is practically in everything, i will share with you the difference it seems to make to people i train.
I do train people who are away for much of the week, and tend to live on hotel food.
No matter what hotel you stay in, the food is usually laden with sugar, not only that but salt too. This is on top of the saturated fat, so when you think of the composition of hotel food, its not really a pretty picture.
Consuming this type of food can be very destructive for your performance too. Its a double-whammy really, you put weight on because you start eating food thats of poor quality, and you struggle to get the performance out of yourself to burn it all off because this food can’t be absorbed quickly and efficiently for good workouts!
Wherever you go, there seems to be a problem with eating establishments dishing out effectively “rubbish” food.
Having had three children, i remember having to eat quite a lot in hospital canteens at all sorts of hours.
No matter how hard you try, the food is full of salt, sugar, and mostly saturated fat, this is exactly what you dont need!
Try a piece of fish there and its smothered in batter and fried.
Whatever half-decent turns out to be smothered in sauce.
So you end up eating all of these varieties of food, and guees what? You soon become used to eating food high in sugar again, and your sweet tooth comes back very quickly indeed!!
Then you find it hard to go back to where you were before, by that i mean eating much more plain food and avoiding added sugar whenever when possible!
This is why eating food made from scratch makes a lot of sense, and where possible asking the cook/chef to have something that was not battered, not covered in sauce or fried.
Don’t forget its your money and you should be able to get what you pay for, especially if staying healthy is a priority for you!!!
