I feel tired after running for only 10 minutes~ Improve your athletic performance and eat more purple foods to supplement resveratrol!

In recent years, the trend of exercising has been prevalent. Many people regard running as a way to challenge themselves. After running 10 kilometers, they want to challenge the half marathon. After defeating the half marathon, they should move towards the full marathon... However, every runner may have had this experience: they run smoothly normally, but recently they don’t know what happened. They are always too tired to run after running for 10 or 20 minutes. At this time, in addition to reviewing whether you are too tired from work, lack of sleep, or sick with a cold, perhaps you should also think about nutrition issues!

The reason behind sports fatigue is mostly malnutrition, don't ignore it

People consume a lot of body energy during exercise. Once an unbalanced diet causes malnutrition, the body cannot provide enough calories and nutrition, and sports fatigue is likely to occur. At this time, no matter how hard you want to have a good athletic performance, it will be as difficult as climbing to the sky! From this we can see the importance of nutrition for sports. We must refer to the Chinese Dietary Guidelines on a daily basis, consume the six major food groups in a balanced manner, and try to choose cooking methods with less oil, salt and sugar.

However, even if you pay attention to the principle of balanced intake of the six major food groups on a daily basis, you may still feel "particularly tired after exercising recently." After excluding the factors of physical illness and lack of sleep, you may want to adjust your diet, moderately increase the intake of purple foods such as grapes, blueberries, mulberries, and supplement with some resveratrol, which can help eliminate sports fatigue and thus improve exercise performance!

Blue and purple fruits such as grapes, mulberries, and blueberries are representative foods rich in resveratrol.

Resveratrol is great ~ it fights fatigue, improves athletic performance, and can help with weight loss!

Resveratrol is a polyphenol phytochemical that is widely found in various plants. It is said that it was first discovered by the Japanese in 1940 in the roots of a plant called "Veratrum". Later, scientists also discovered the presence of resveratrol in grapes, mulberries, blueberries, cranberries, pomegranates, peanuts, red wine and dark chocolate. However, since it has been discovered that foods rich in resveratrol are more likely to be purple-black in appearance, most people regard purple foods as representative ingredients for taking resveratrol.

Once an unbalanced diet causes malnutrition and the body cannot provide enough calories and nutrition, sports fatigue is likely to occur.

The international journal "Molecules" once published a study conducted in Taiwan. The research team first divided the experimental mice into groups and gave them low, medium, and high doses of resveratrol every day for 3 weeks before conducting related tests on athletic performance and anti-fatigue. Experimental results confirm that resveratrol can reduce fatigue-related biochemical indicators such as blood ammonia and blood lactate, and appropriate supplementation does have the effect of resisting fatigue and improving exercise endurance.

What’s special is that resveratrol not only helps eliminate sports fatigue and improve athletic performance, but it may also be a rare weight loss helper for people who exercise to lose weight! According to a study published in the International Journal of Obesity in 2015, resveratrol can increase the production of brown fat in the body and help with weight loss. Modern nutritionists also believe that resveratrol can inhibit the synthesis of fat on the one hand, and indirectly promote the decomposition of fat on the other hand, helping to reduce the accumulation of body fat.

When eating grapes to supplement resveratrol, remember to replace the fruit portion

It should be noted that although eating purple foods to supplement resveratrol can help improve athletic performance and weight loss, the principle of "not excessive" should still be followed. It is recommended that when taking grapes, blueberries or mulberries, don't forget to replace them with the 2 servings of fruit you should eat every day, so as to avoid eating too much, which will affect blood sugar control and cause weight gain. As for red wine which also contains resveratrol, it is recommended to consult an expert first to avoid damaging your health with alcohol before you have enough resveratrol.