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Would knowing about how the body turns food into fuel affects our meals before a sporting event

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The meal eaten before a sport event gives a chance to pull your strength to meet the nutritional goals anwards. Your food and drink choices should make you feeling comportable and confident to start the event. Adequate fuel in the form of carbohydrates or glycogen is stock in muscles and liver. It is a critical fuel in the muscle. Liver glycogen is very important during prolonged workouts or endurance sports. Carbohydrate foods eaten in the last hours before an event gives an important role to top up muscle glycogen stocks. It helps to keep normal blood glucose levels enhancing both physical and mental performance.

When we do physical activity, our body temperature accelerates causing us to sweat to cool down or we lose water. Stay topped up so dehydartion will not happen. It defective performance by decreasing strength and causing tiredness.

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