Healthi5me

Preparation is the way for runners to put up their calibre. So properly fuelling up yourself can help you to minimise fatigue and speed up your recovery after a intense running session. But on the other hand, fuelling up with the wrong foods or not at all before running can cause stomach cramps. So here we are presenting the most valuable foods that you can have before running. They all are scientifically proven and gone through several human trials and studies. • Pre-running meal. It’s quite necessary and crucial to fuel up three to four hours before your running session. Especially if you are distance runner or a explode runner. Most of the times people who just jog for their health benefits do not require much attention on meals. For your information, distance running includes events such as 10 kilometres or 21 km, half marathon and more then that. There are two main purposes for having a good pre running meal. The first one is to keep you away from feeling hungry during run. The se...

Basically, quinoa and couscous are two small grain like foods. Most of the people who are health enthusiast often consume it as an alternative to rice and pasta. Just because of their similar appearance and applications many people just confuse between them. But taking them on grounds of nutrition, they are quite different from one another. • Couscous. It is basically a type of small beaded pasta which is made from steamed semolina. Originally, semolina is a flour that is made from drum wheat. It is one of the most common consumed any staple food in North Africa, Algeria and Tunisia. Going through the nutrient content of couscous. 100 grams serving of couscous will provide about 112 calories. These calories are further divided into 23.2 grams of carbohydrates, 1.4 grams of fibre, 3.8 grams of protein, and 0.16 grams of fat. Addition to these macronutrients, it also contained good reserves of selenium, magnesium, folate, and iron. • Quinoa. Meanwhile, quinoa is a seed of quinoa plant. T...