Nutrition recommendations about eating carbohydrates food before physical effort, presented in scientific sources, suggest either eating or avoiding carbohydrates one hour before undertaking physical effort. This contradictory information about eating or avoiding carbohydrates, appears frequently and shows that nutrition recommendation or sports dietetics are fields of science still in progress and requiring further researches. Organism reaction after eating carbohydrates is immediate- at the beginning it is a higher level of insuline in blood (hyperinsulinemia) and a bigger level of glucose in blood (hyperglycemia). As a result, one can observe a lower level of glucose in blood and the increase of…
Author: Małgorzata Kantorowicz
Continuous growth of patients suffered from breast cancer has been observed year by year. Oncology changes are recognized among young and old people. World- wide health problems is breast cancer appearing among women in all ages. It is the second reason of death among women caused by carcinoma. Medical researches led by different medical centers proved that a modifying, protective factor is a diet. It is suggested that a diet rich in fruits and vegetables can protect people against breast cancer. This group of nutrition products, beside vitamins and carotenoids contains many other compounds, such as: indols, selenium, flavonoids, potassium…
Caffeine (CAF) was classified as an ergogenic substance due to its propriety causing a higher concentration and vigilance level. It also causes the improvement of psychophysical capacity of the mood and shortening of a reaction time. In January 2004, The World Anti- Doping Agency (WADA) removed caffeine from the list of substances forbidden in sports. Since that time, using CAF in different sports disciplines has become more and more popular. In many scientific researches, in a laboratory method, the influence of different CAF- size doses given once or repeatedly in different time proportions, before and after physical effort , were…