It is becoming more common these days to have someone looking at your food and judge you because it is either really healthy or unhealthy. With someone looking at your food you feel the need to justify it by saying you’ve been really busy or stressed if it looks unhealthy or perhaps brag if it looks healthy. We understand that if you eat healthy it has a positive effect on your lifespan and quality of life. Unfortunately, there is a lot of contradicting advice as to what is healthy and what isn’t. This could be based on morals, religion, or just what the media has pushed recently.
No matter the goal, your diet certainly plays a roll. The best way to figure how the diet manipulates the outcome is with science. However, people think they can look up a study online that supports anything. This is a misunderstanding on how science works.
Science should be based on the sum of the evidence. This means that you have to look at all of the studies and then come to a conclusion based on what the majority of them are telling you. If 95% of studies say one thing and 5% of the studies say another, you can’t use an argument that the science says the 5% route. Another thing to keep in mind is that in science there are no absolutes and it should be taken as likelihood. It is a good probability that the 95% of studies are pointing in the better direction.
With a strong interest in performance improvement, the information here is focussed on using a science based approach to improve performance. Whether you’re looking to just train for life or become the elite of your sport, adding muscle or training to extremes may be detrimental to health and we want to minimize this while doing what we can to focus on the ultimate goal of raising up your athletic performance. To rise as an athlete no matter what your goals are.
