DYNAMIC
DUO
■ Snacking on
bananas and pears
could help enhance athletic
performance, suggests a study
from the North Carolina
Research Campus, US.
Scientists gave 20 male cyclists
water, bananas or pears during a
75km ride and found that the fruit
consumers had faster times –
5 percent more for bananas,
3 percent for pears – plus an
improved rate of recovery, more
energy and better mental focus,
than those who just drank water.PERCENTAGE YOU CAN
LOWER YOUR RISK
OF DEVELOPING
ERECTILE
DYSFUNCTION
WHEN YOU CONSUME
FOODS FULL OF
FLAVONOIDS –
STRAWBERRIES,
BLUEBERRIES,
APPLES, PEARS
AND CITRUS – SAYS
A STUDY IN THE
AMERICAN JOURNAL
OF CLINICAL
NUTRITION.CLUTTER
BREEDS
CALORIES
■ A recent study from the
Cornell Food and Brand
Lab, US, discovered that
a clean and uncluttered
kitchen could do more for
your health than keep
away roaches: it may also
keep extra calories at
bay. Research showed
that a chaotic and
disorderly kitchen can
prompt people to stress-
eat more calories than
those who don’t dine in a
stressful environment.
Subjects in the study
ended up eating about
53 more calories from
biscuits in just 10 minutes
in a cluttered kitchen.BEAU LARK/CORBIS; GETTY IMAGES; ADRIAN BURKE/CORBIS; GLOWIMAGES RM/ALAMY
FEAST ON FIBRE
BURN
NOTICE
■ Researchers at the
University of Surrey in the
UK discovered that for
men, eating carbs before
working out decreased the
amount of fat burned for
three hours afterwards.
For women, however,
eating carbs before
working out increased the
amount of fat they burned.■ Stanford University School of Medicine, US,
researchers recently discovered that a lifelong diet low
in fibre could have long-term consequences. Eating a
typical Western diet, with its abundance of processed
foods and dearth of fruits and vegies, may irreparably
damage the complex microbial populations in our gut.
If the beneficial bacteria don’t get enough fibre over
our lifetimes, they dwindle and may never recover,
even if you start eating a high-fibre diet. The loss of
those microbes could create health problems down
the road, so be sure to get at least 30 grams a day
from whole foods like leafy greens and beans.JUNE 2016 MUSCLE & FITNESS 11NUTRITION NEWS