What Should I Eat Pre-Event?

The significance of meals and CHO fueling/refueling in triathlon sport is great. For long distance events it has even greater role in the achievements of better performances.. The aim of the pre-event meal is to top up liver glycogen stores.  As most triathlon races are held early morning, athletes should aim to consume a pre-event meal containing 2g of carbohydrate per kg body weight, 2-2½ hours prior to the race.

It is indeed a mandatory requirement for sports persons like triathletes to keep a check on what they eat, since this  ultimately reflects in their performance. A healthy blend of all the required nutrients helps us to gain endurance and energy to sustain long in our race. Though different kinds of athletes have different kinds of requirements in accordance with their main body parameters, like their body's fat percentage for example, there is a basic criterion of healthy eating that suits them all.

Today's target:sodium benzoate-E211

In the following we will deal with one of today`s problems that is not emphasised enough and we at the magazine are especially concerned because it affects the nutrition and health of triathletes and sportsmen in general.In 2007 Professor Piper at Sheffield University decided to speak out about the danger caused by sodium benzoate- E211.In 1999 he had already published a research paper on this topic.