Diet what to eat:
Carbahydrates:
- provide energy
- convert gyclogen into water and glucose- provides energy
- complex carbs slow release of energy
- satisfy hunger, provide energy
- ruduces tiredness
- a dancers diet should be 55-60% of this
- sugar, potatoes, wheat, rice, cerals
- lack= fatigue- weakness, headaches, irritabilit, poor co-ordination, nervousness
Protien
- builds strong muscles and organs
- growth and repair
- produces enzymes and hormones
- carrys oxygen to the blood
- lean meat, fish, dairy
- 40g perday of
- lack= loss of muscle, illness-flu
Fats
- provide quick energy and flavour
- stored in fatty tissue
- help with carrying vitamins
- protect organs
- lubricate joints
- provides structure for cell membranes
- froms bases of hormones
- comprises teh insulating layer around the nerves
- too much- heart disease, colesteral
Minerals:
- bone development
- stops fatige
- aids the immune system
- stops constipation
- repair
- growth
- development
- lack- brital bones
Vitamins:
- a-growth, development, eye sight
- b- energy
- c- skin, tissue, absobtion of iron
- d- healthy bones
- repair
- growth
- development
- vegtables
- small amounts daily 30g
Fibre:
- keeps bowls functioning properly
- satisfies hunger without calories
- can protect you from serious ilness in later life
- not enough can lead you to indegestion or constipation
Water:
- metabolic process- converting food into energy
- gets rid of bodys waste and toxins
- prevents and stops dehydration- thrist, diziness, headaches, faintness, decrease of blood flow to the skin, physical and mental imparement, over heating
- body consists of 70% of water
- the amount of water we intake depends on various things:-the amount of sweat produced(lost fluids)- internal fluids need to be kept at a constant temperature ~ your mind wont work, toxins will back up in the body, trouble regualting temperature
dancers need 2000 calories a day to maintain functioning muscels, organs and body temperature(1,200). 800 are used for eating, walking, dressing and working
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