* The foods and drinks you consume before and during an event can help sustain your performance, but your daily diet has a bigger impact on your sporting ability by influencing how much effort you can put into your training.
The fitness and skill improvements you get from your training are crucial for determining how well you can perform during events.
* There is no one ideal diet that suits all active people. Individual dietary needs vary depending on your age, gender, activity level and the type of sport you're involved in.
Some sportspeople have high energy needs, such as triathletes and males trying to bulk up for power sports, whereas others need less energy to maintain a relatively low body fat level, such as gymnasts and lightweight rowers.
* However, the healthy 'dietary pyramid' approach generally applies to everyone. Most of the foods you eat should be fruit, vegetables, legumes and grain products, coupled with moderate amounts of protein-rich foods, such as lean meat, skinless poultry, eggs, fish, seafood, nuts and seeds, and small amounts of fat.
* Alcohol and less healthy foods (eg. fatty take-away foods, potato chips) should not be a regular part of your diet. Focus on maintaining a healthy diet most of the time.
Taken from Healthy Food For Life
Info by Dr Susanna Holt (PhD, dietician)
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