Nutrition Matters
Nutrition is a critical element of the anti-aging lifestyle. Many people will turn to exercise to help lose weight or reduce body fat. But truth be told, you can’t out-exercise bad nutrition. Nutrition matters!
The obesity epidemic has been full blown for decades. While declining levels of exercise amongst the general population impacts an overweight populace, nutrition is by far the biggest culprit in a world where overweight has become the norm.
And nutrition just doesn’t impact us mere mortals. It can have a dramatic effect on those whose bodies are their tools of their trade—professional athletes.
You can’t out-exercise bad nutrition.
Romelu Lukaku
Romelu Lukaku is one of the best footballers on the planet and a star on the Belgian National Team. Born in Antwerp, he played for Anderlecht for two seasons before graduating to the English Premiership. In 2017, he landed at Manchester United, one of the top clubs on the planet. Despite his impressive physical presence, he disappointed at Man U and ended up transferring to the Italian First Division with Inter Milan.
Nutrition Matters to Romelu Lukaku courtesy of Tribal Football
Despite Lukaku playing for the two teams I dislike the most on the planet ☹, I have always been a big supporter. He has been an absolute monster since going to Italy, scoring buckets of goals. He’s become an unstoppable force in Serie A.
Why the dramatic improvement in his performance? Rejected in England but dominant in Italy?
Nutrition Matters to Romelu Lukaku
Nutrition has played a huge role in his resurgence.
Lukaku himself admits he was overweight in Manchester. Since arriving in Milan, he has worked with the team’s nutritionist to lose 16 pounds of bodyweight.
None of this weight loss came from exercise. Being a top-level professional footballer, he burns thousands of calories a day training to maintain his fitness.
No, his weight loss was all due to changes in his nutrition.
According to Lukaku:
“When I joined Inter, we did an analysis of my body and a lot has changed. I eat a lot of salad and fish, which has a great effect on me. I take carnitine, it makes me feel good, and I take vitamins. And I eat salad for lunch, a lot of chicken breast, shirataki noodles. Since following this lifestyle, I feel better on the pitch, more responsive and faster.”
“I have reached another level, physically and mentally.”
Elite athletes train hours a day. If even a professional soccer player like Lukaku can’t out-exercise his bad nutrition, it’s no wonder obesity is the problem it is today.
Since following this lifestyle, I feel better on the pitch, more responsive and faster. I have reached another level, physically and mentally.
Nutrition Matters to You
Dialling in one’s nutrition. Incorporating a diet full of quality calories. Restricting processed foods and high-glycemic foods. Shopping the outer perimeter of the grocery store rather then the centre aisles.
Incorporating these habits into your lifestyle, in combination with exercise and good sleep, will do wonders for your health and your quality of life. And just might add a bunch more time of enjoyable living to the tail end of your years.
Thanks Bill,
The old saying ‘garbage in , garbage out’ really applies to diet and especially so in our junk food obsessed society. We’d all be much healthier if the broccoli industry spent as much money on advertising as Coke and MacDonalds.
A good guide is to look at the ingredient label and if you can’t pronounce more than 1 item, don’t buy it. Also, you’ll live a lot longer making your own tomato sauce for pasta than buying the sodium spiked branded products, and it tastes better.
Bien manger!
Hey Dwight. So true. The quick-fix mentality so prevalent today supports so much of fast food’s success. If governments subsidised healthy food crops as opposed to only dishing out money to the likes of corn growers and their lobbyists, maybe we’d start to break the cycle. But when a calorie-rich, nutrient-depleted food is cheaper than quality options, it forces a choice on far too many people. Add in the addictive nature of sugar- and fat-added foods, it’s no wonder Big Food is winning its sordid game. But not to worry, Big Pharma will come in and save the health of those damaged by their SAD (Standard American Diet).