Saturday, May 20, 2017

Golf Nutrition for Golf Success

Golf nutrition is important for your golf success. It keeps you in optimum physical and mental conditions, which are the criteria for a good game.

Athletes in many sports focus on good nutrition for better sports performance. However, in the game of golf, little attention is paid to golf nutrition because many golfers regard the sport as a slow-moving activity requiring little aerobic or anaerobic energy. As such, they may have ignored the fundamentals of good nutrition necessary for golfing success.

Truly, most golfers’ diet is not healthy. Golfers are mostly bad eaters. Many of them focus on the game, completely oblivious to their diet.

For sustenance, they stuff into their mouths donuts, egg and sausage biscuits, chips and assorted junk foods, and consume beer or sugar-loaded beverages for quenching their thirst. Worse, at the 19th hole, further indulgences jeopardize their health, making some of them worse off in shape than prior to their round.

Golf nutrition contributes to a good diet, leading to good scores. Golf is a game of extended endurance, requiring focus, rhythm, and consistency, which are the fundamentals for golfing success. You need a good diet to provide you with adequate energy throughout a round. Only a healthy body and mind will give you the same measure of strength, flexibility, concentration, and physical and emotional consistency throughout all 18 holes with little fluctuation. Golf nutrition may give you a body and mind for optimum performance.

Overweight is a major factor that affects your scores. Your body shape is a reflection of your performance. Several previously overweight professionals have made major improvements in their tournament standings after losing weight and getting into shape.

Golf nutrition may get you into better shape for better scores.

How to Lose Weight

So what is the secret to weight loss and weight control?

There are only two major factors affecting weight loss:

  You must be healthy.

  You must eat less.

That may sound too simple and obvious to be true. But if you are healthy, most probably you do not have a weight problem. On the other hand, if you are unhealthy, and you would want to lose weight, it is almost impossible without restoring your health first. So, first and foremost, you must have a healthy body before you can manage your weight, or even shed a few extra pounds of unwanted weight. But no fad diets please! Fad diets simply don't work!

How to Keep a Healthy Body

A healthy body needs detoxification.

You must detoxify it. A body, loaded with toxins from the environment, from the chemicals in your foods and water, from your pharmaceutical drugs, is never healthy. Detoxification prepares the groundwork for golf nutrition.

To detoxify your body, go on a fast -- a one-day fast, to begin with. Fasting prepares you for better golf nutrition.

You could lose as much as one to two pounds per day during a fast. 

To lose one pound of body weight, you need to burn up 3,000 calories more than you consume -- which is virtually impossible unless you exercise vigorously. Your body is made up of mostly water. Sodium in food retains water. As soon as you fast, huge amount of water is eliminated or flushed out from your system (this is how and why fasting cleanses). 

In weight control, calories do count. In fasting, there isnothing -- no calorie, no protein, no carbohydrate. Absolutely nothing! The rate of losing weight is directly proportionate to the degree of your overweight.

However, the ultimate goal of fasting is not weight loss: it is internal cleansing for optimum health. In fact, you will put back some, if not all, of the pounds you have lost during a fast once you resume eating. Fasting helps youcontrol, but not lose, your body weight.

In addition to fasting, you may use foods to detoxify your body. Some of the most common foods for detoxification are:

  • Alfalfa sprouts
  • Beets
  • Burdock
  • Green barley


Include these foods in your daily diet to give you energy and vitality.

You may also use herbs to detoxify your body.

Your body is a self-cleaning mechanism via your liver, kidneys, urine, feces, breath, and sweat. Keeping your systems of elimination in a healthy condition can help improve and protect your health. Herbs can provide you with safe, natural, time-tested methods to improve the natural functions of your body to support its natural cleansing process. Diuretics increase kidney function, and thus the elimination of urine and excess fluids

The most common herbs for detoxification are: black walnut, cascara sagrada, cayenne, dandelion, echinacea, Indian rhubarb root, licorice root, milk thistile, psyllium husk, red clover, slipper elm inner bark, yarrow.

Water is an invaluable nutrient to every living thing on earth. Every cell of your body requires water to carry nutrients and energy to it, as well as to transport toxins and wastes from it. Water plays an important role in detoxification.

Hydrotherapy involves alternating application of hot and cold water aimed at increasing your blood flow to different tissues of your body. Take a very hot shower immediately followed by a very cold one, and repeat the process two or three times. After the hydrotherapy, snuggle into your bed, staying warm for half an hour or so. You will feel completely refreshed and rejuvenated.

Pure Inside Out - The Water Bath shows you how to use water to detoxify yourself to keep it pure inside out.

Regular physical exercise not only stimulates blood circulation and the movement of lymphatic fluids, but also promotes the reduction of fat reserves, thereby instrumental in facilitating the removal of toxins from your body. 

Low-impact aerobic exercise, such as jumping rope or a bouncer, significantly improves your body’s circulation, which benefits detoxification.

Skin brushing is another effective time-honored method to increase blood and lymphatic circulation to remove dead skin cells, and rid your body of toxins, especially through its pores.

Brush your entire body daily with a natural-bristle dry-skin brush. Be persistent, and the initial discomfort will dissipate after a while when your body has become accustomed to the abrasive effect of brushing.

The use of foot pads is an easy and unobtrusive way to assist your body in the removal of a myriad of pollutants that invade your body on a daily basis, as well as the health-repressive toxic wastes that prevent your body from achieving the true wellness you really should be experiencing.

Accordingly, when applied to the soles of your feet overnight, these foot pads not only warm up to open pores of the skin but also stimulate the reflex zones on your soles to draw out and absorb accumulated wastes under osmotic pressure from the blood and lymph systems in your body.

When lying horizontally, your body fluids collect in your head and feet. There is an acupuncture point on each of the sole of your feet, known as “gushing water spring,” through which excess toxins and moisture from your body will be excreted into the foot patches. By applying foot pads on your feet while sleeping, you may be able to extract toxins from your body through the process of osmosis in the form of moisture onto your soles.

Foot pads are obtainable on the Internet.

If your body is rid of toxins, it will respond appropriately to any weight-loss program. If you eat more, you put on a few pounds; if you eat less, you lose a few pounds. But your weight will never balloon or get out of control. Therefore, if you weight fluctuates drastically, the problem is your health, more specifically -- your body is simply too toxic.

Stephen Lau
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