Nutrition always comes along with good health. Proper exercise and nutrition are two practises to achieve a healthy life. Without the correct nutrition, no amount of exercise will help you obtain good health. Hence, this lesson is dedicated to women fitness nutrition.

Firstly, we will need to understand the 3 main nutrients that we get from our daily food. These 3 nutrients are protein, carbohydrates and fats. Although fats seem to turn you off immediately, it is important that fats are included in our daily diet.



For a balanced nutritional diet, we should be taking in thirty percent proteins, fourty percent carbohydrates and thirty percent fats from every meal. Also, you should be eating fruits, raw vegetables and fiber fods everyday. Water is also an important part of a nutritional diet. This is because, there is no other drink that is as clean and chemical free as water. Try to replace your canned drinks with water.

Protein foods.

Proteins are responsible for repairing our body's damaged tissues. Hence, protein is essential for growing and maintaining our muscles. The estimated daily amount of protein intake is 1 times of your weight in kilograms. Proteins are also naturally harder to break-down as compared to fats and carbohydrates. Many calories are used just to break down the proteins that we digest during our meal times. Hence, this will result in a lower calorie storage that leads to less fat storage. High protein foods include eggs, salmon, nuts, chicken breasts, lean beef and milk.

Carbohydrates.

Carbohydrates are our main sources of energy. Hence, they are very important to athletes. For people who do running, they will require carbohydrates to store glycogen in their bodies. This will provide them with the energy to endure through long distance runs. Foods like bread, rice and pasta are good sources of carbohydrates.

Fats.

Lastly, fats are important to our body as well. Hence, thirty percent of our meals should be fats. Fats are stored energy. Fats naturally contain more calories as compared to proteins and carbohydrates. However, this often results in excess stored fats which is related to many diseases. Fats are required to keep our body and our organs warm. Some fats are healthy fats. They provide you with many more benefits as compared to your normal fats. An example of a healthy fat would be Omega 3 fats.