Athletes Diet - Reason For Evening Nutrition

REASON FOR EARLY EVENING NUTRITION

A well balanced meal based mostly around protein and complex carbohydrates. Insulin levels will be supported and blood levels of amino acids will be restored, ensuring the body stays in a positive nitrogen balance.

If you're following a diet based on tapering carbohydrates through the day, meals from this point onwards will generally be lower in carbs and higher in protein with a little more fats. Again, this is a technique to prime and maintain healthy functioning of your pancreas and insulin support. It follows logical sense that you are also going to winding up the day in the early evening, relaxing and generally far less active than the earlier portions of your waking day - typically where you will be more active, mentally and physically.

It is known that you need certain specific types of fats in your diet. Of course you want to avoid the nasty scenario of high blood sugars, high circulating levels of insulin and high levels of blood fats, so it makes very good sense to consume your fats with meals that are low or non existent in carbohydrate portions.

Many people will take their vitamin/mineral supplements with this meal as its a meal generally a little higher in fats. Absorption of minerals is likely to be improved when taken with a higher fat meal. Fat slows down the digestion process and increases the secretion of bile acids. All of these factors are important when considering taking a vitamin and especially a mineral nutritional supplement.