Seaweed - valuable properties for athletes
Yes, they also eat or even considered a real "food - medicine". I'm talking of course about seaweed that can be added to soups, salads, with rice or cooked vegetables or even in the form of "seaweed chips."
Seaweed is a great source of magnesium, iron, calcium, iodine, vitamin A, B1, B2, B3, B12, C and shows tremendous health benefits, especially for athletes.
First, eating seaweed strengthens hair and improves its texture, suppleness and keeping skin protects and improves circulation throughout the body. Also commonly eaten seaweed significantly reduce stress levels, help us regain composure and improves cognitive ability while protecting healthy thyroid gland due to iodine content.
Secondly, the seaweed helps to eliminate toxins from food or the environment, improve metabolism and may be a reliable aid for athletes and especially bodybuilders.
Seaweed - how to help us reach our goal at the gym?
Seaweed is insignificant content of calories but very high in fiber, which will help ensure your body needs fiber, without adding a lot of calories and large amounts of fat.
According Muscleandfitness.com, its wealth of minerals and vitamins in algal composition, it is a food recommended for sports fans, increasing performance and decreasing fatigue and risk of injury, due to its high iron.
Also, eating seaweed layer prevents the fat around the abdomen and waist cause faster satiety and reduces the number of calories consumed daily (a study by the Journal Appetite showed that people who included seaweed in their diet consumed an average of 135 calories less per day).
Last but not least, the inclusion of dietary seaweed brings great benefits to the functioning of the muscles, nervous system and the heart. Because of the high calcium content (1g = approx 70mg calcium dried seaweed), algae strengthens bones and teeth.
Although seaweed is an excellent natural tonic, no need to exaggerate their consumption (due to high content of iodine and sodium) and we need to ensure that what you buy is 100% natural.
