Health Care Article

Foods are important to our body. Whether our goal is to tone, get strong, gain muscle, heal from an injury, or participate in a sport activity, we need to fuel up and feed our muscles. Many of us think that if we follow a high protein diet, we’ll get lean, strong and we’ll build muscle.

Let me say now that, “carbohydrates” are the major source that gives us the energy to push the weights to use the protein we eat, that then builds muscles! This is true even for those of us on a weight loss program who are restricting those dreaded carbs. Those of us who do not participate in endurance sports such as running, cycling etc, know how important it is to eat a diet high in carbohydrates, with some extra protein.

But do we know that carbs are the foundation to fuel our performance - wheter to power our tennis game, aerobic workout, or bodybuilding routine? To feed our muscles, click more for info:

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