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Friday Aug 17, 2007

Geobars and jellybeans

 

Frustrated with the apparently conflicting diet advice that gets thrown at you from all over the place, I spoke to the very lovely Orly Moyal, nutritionist for Higher Nature, to ask her what I should be eating as I train for my run.

I have the additional complication of carrying some truly dreadful genes (and thanks to both sides of my family for that), so I'm supposed to keep a watch on my blood sugar and my weight, though it proves difficult most of the time.

Orly began by reminding me that muscle weighs more than fat, so when you're doing a lot of exercise, weighing oneself on the scales doesn't give you a true indication of how well things are going.

I've been told before to follow a low GI diet (it's all to do with how quickly a food releases sugar into the bloodstream), but Orly introduced me to a progression of that - glycaemic load (which is more to do with the concentration of carbohydrates). So rather than eating lots of wholewheat pasta and basmati rice, fruit and veg are once again A-OK to eat.

She also recommended taking nutritional supplements after exercise to boost my protein intake, and I've begun with Vitabiotics' Jointace range, which contains glutamine to aid muscle-building and growth. Cunningly, it also helps blood sugar balance, so theoretically it should be a winner.

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