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- The bulk of your diet is made up of carbohydrates.<\/li>\n
- The next largest portion of your diet should consist of fruits and vegetables.<\/li>\n
- At the top of the pyramid was protein, dairy and fats.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
The theory was that the bulk of your diet needs to consist of carbohydrates. Fruits and vegetables needs to make up the next biggest chunk of what you eat. The smallest portion of your diet had to be made up on dairy, protein and fats.<\/p>\n
Fast forward to today where a large percentage of the population is either gluten intolerant or avoids carbs because they are following a banting diet or a similar high-protein eating plan. Does this mean that because people are avoid carbohydrates like the plague that the majority of the population is not following a balanced diet?<\/p>\n
There are many different foods that you can eat to get the nutrients that are derived from carbohydrates that don\u2019t involve bread or pasta. These include:<\/p>\n
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- Cauliflower,<\/li>\n
- Broccoli,<\/li>\n
- Pumpkin,<\/li>\n
- Avocado,<\/li>\n
- Cabbage, and<\/li>\n
- Baby marrows.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
In fact, many retailers stock gluten-free alternatives to bread and pasta which means that people who are gluten sensitive don\u2019t have to miss out.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nThe personal trainer\u2019s role in diet<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Nutrition and exercise indeed go hand in hand. An exercise routine will not provide the results that it is designed to do unless you eat healthily. In our article entitled Training and Nutrition: Two Sides of the Same Coin<\/em><\/a>, we made the point that a good diet will provide your body with what it needs in order to perform optimally.<\/p>\n
However, you mustn\u2019t see the personal trainer as a replacement for a nutritionist or a dietitian. The former concentrates on your physical appearance and fitness ability. These professionals look at how diet can help to improve this.<\/p>\n
The latter two professionals concentrate on diet and body composition. They will manipulate what you eat in order for you to reach a certain goal with respect to your weight and body composition. In addition, if you\u2019ve been advised by a medical practitioner to change your diet in order to achieve a particular health goal, you\u2019ll visit a dietitian or nutritionist. They\u2019ll advise you to perform exercise in order to help you to achieve the goals that you\u2019ve set out. However, they won\u2019t tell you what exercise to do. This advice they\u2019ll leave to the personal trainer.<\/p>\n
A personal trainer knows the fundamentals of good nutrition and can help you to maintain\u00a0 a good, healthy diet. In conjunction with a superior exercise routine, your personal trainer will help you achieve the body that you\u2019ve always dreamed of!<\/p>\n
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