Nutrition & CrossFit

Eat meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch and no sugar (major cause of dental caries,  the most common chronic childhood disease in America. Accounts for over 30% of all general anaesthetics administered to children in the UK.)                                                    Keep intake to levels that will support exercise but not body fat.

"Basic escape from the standard Western Diet" 

(Eating Quality Food)
The Paleo Diet is a way of eating in the modern age that best simulates the nutrition of our evolutionary and genetic heritage - the ancestral, Paleolithic diet. For millions of years our hunter-gatherer ancestors ate combinations of lean meat, seafood, plants, fruit, and nuts. But today more than 70% of our dietary calories come from foods that our Paleolithic (Stone Age) ancestors rarely if ever ate ... and that modern humans are not genetically adapted to eat. The result is epidemic levels of cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, obesity, osteoporosis, arthritis, acne, gastrointestinal disease, and more.

There is a long history of dental caries: over a million years ago, hominids such as Australopithecus suffered from cavities. However, the incidence of cavities was very low well into the Paleolithic and Mesolithic periods. The largest increases in the prevalence of caries have been associated with dietary changes. Today, caries remains one of the most common diseases throughout the world.

  (Quantity 40% Carbohydrate:30% Protein:30% Fat)
This is the diet that fits in best with the principles of CrossFit

The Zone is not some mystical place or some clever marketing terms. It is a real physiological state in your body where the hormones that control silent inflammation are maintained in a zone that is not too high, but not too low. This requires treating food as if it were a drug to be taken at the right dose and at the right time. However, saying food is a drug is actually derogatory to food since your diet affects hormones that are hundreds of times more powerful than any drug. In many respects, food will be the most powerful drug you will ever take because you are using this drug at least three times a day for the rest of your life. Thus your diet can be your greatest ally or worst enemy because the hormonal rules for humans haven't changed in the past 150,000 years, and they probably won't change tomorrow.

 

 

"Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live."