The 35-year-old Messi "carried" the Argentine national team and advanced all the way to the World Cup, about to take the final step of this World Cup championship.
Some media posted an important reason why Messi is "old and strong" - diet.
Since 2014, Messi has been guided by Italian nutritionist Poser and stayed away from soda and pizza, mainly focusing on five major categories of food: water, olive oil, whole grains, fresh fruits and fresh vegetables, eating only whole grains, fresh fruits and vegetables for breakfast, and only brown rice and tuna for dinner.
Some netizens expressed dissatisfaction with Messi's food reports. Everyone knows that the Argentine national team is a "barbecue team", this World Cup carried 2.6 tons of meat into the group, in order to facilitate barbecue, even five-star hotels do not live, choose to live in Qatar University student dormitory.
In such a gluttonous team, will Messi be affected?
In fact, eating barbecue is not a bad thing for most athletes, because a scientific diet requires balanced nutrition, and a diet lacking fat intake is a nutritionally unbalanced diet, but not healthy.
Disadvantages of a low-fat diet
A high-fat diet must be harmful to ordinary people who lack exercise, but people do not need to pursue a low-fat, zero-fat diet, because a low-fat diet will make the human body "malnourished".
A low-fat diet affects the normal absorption of vitamins in the first place.
Vitamins are divided into two types: water-soluble vitamins and fat-soluble vitamins: vitamin C, vitamin B family, folic acid, niacin, etc. are water-soluble vitamins, which do not require fat to participate in absorption; Vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin E, vitamin K, etc. are fat-soluble vitamins that require fat as a transport carrier.
Therefore, in the customized diet plan for athletes, the calories provided by fat need to account for 20%~35% of the total dietary calorie intake. In addition, dietary fat also contains linoleic acid, an essential fatty acid that the human body cannot provide for itself.
In addition to nutritional functions, fat also sends physiological signals to the brain, making people feel full and stop eating.
Fat "li" in the stomach for longer than carbohydrates, which will make people feel full for a long time after meals, which is why we will be hungry faster after eating foods with less "oil and water".
The most important thing is that fat is also delicious and can make us happy. However, friends who have had gallbladder removal surgery need to adhere to a low-fat diet to avoid symptoms such as indigestion, diarrhea, and stomach pain due to the lack of bile to help digest fat during digestion.
Although Messi can eat barbecue, he should not eat more, because Messi has been seriously injured due to dietary problems.
"Daily Sport" once published an article pointing out: During Messi's time at Barca, Guardiola set strict dietary rules to keep his body strong, which stipulated eating more fish and less beef. After Martino's coaching, Messi ate his favorite beef again, but suffered a serious injury in the game and did not perform well throughout the season.
At the same time, the "World Sport Newspaper" learned through Messi's former physiotherapist and nutritionist Sylvia that the sudden loss of 2 kilograms of weight was an important reason for Messi's decline in condition and repeated injuries, and another former Messi's nutritionist Martin also supported this view.
Sylvia also mentioned that each athlete has different physical functions and structure, and needs to be maintained at the most reasonable weight to perform at the best level, and being too heavy or too light is not a good thing.
Of course, simply maintaining your figure and weight does not necessarily lead to a good state. This has to mention the self-discipline king - Ronaldo.
Disadvantages of a low-carb water diet
People who like Ronaldo or dislike are in awe of his dietary self-discipline.
Ronaldo's self-disciplined diet is not acceptable even to French people who pay attention to healthy eating.
French player Evra is Ronaldo's former Manchester United teammate, once invited to Ronaldo's house for a guest meal, but found that Ronaldo's family only served chicken, salad and water, not even juice, and was forcibly pulled by Ronaldo to train after the meal...
The tortured Evra spread the word everywhere: "Don't go to Ronaldo's house for dinner." ”
Afterwards, Ronaldo once refuted the rumor, saying that he still had white rice at home...
Ronaldo's daily recipes circulating on the Internet
Even with white rice, Ronaldo's recipe can still dissuade most football players because it is too weak. But to be fair, this recipe covers the three major nutrients of carbhydrate, protein and fat, which is very suitable for ordinary people who need to lose fat, but for football players, the proportion of carbs is low.
Football, like team sports such as basketball, volleyball, rugby, and handball, is an "explosive-endurance sport" that alternates between high-intensity sports and low-intensity sports, and has a high demand for carbohydrates.
Compared with the 22-year-old "explosive power - endurance sports" male athlete diet with a height of 183cm and a weight of 86kg, we can see the proportion of carbohydrates in Ronaldo's recipe.
In this recipe with a total calorie of 3397kcal, carbohydrates account for up to 62%.
Carbohydrates are the source of energy for muscle work, have the effect of controlling cholesterol and fat in the body, in addition to assisting digestion, maintaining blood sugar concentration and other functions.
Larger muscles consume more energy, so a diet that lacks carbohydrates can make athletes weak.
In addition, the lack of carbohydrates can also lead to a decrease in blood sugar concentration, making the human brain's main energy source insufficient, leading to "mental fatigue".
Ronaldo's recipe allows Ronaldo to have a perfect model body, but it may make Ronaldo tired and miss the trophy of the World Cup winner, nor can it help Ronaldo protect himself from the new crown virus.
In October 2020, Ronaldo missed the match against Sweden due to the new crown virus and shocked the world.
People can't believe that such a self-disciplined superstar as Ronaldo can be infected with the new crown.
In fact, many studies have found that athletes with high-intensity training and high-energy competition are more likely to cause immunosuppression and increase the risk of upper respiratory tract infectious diseases. Especially athletes with high-intensity training and ultra-autonomous diets.
The human immune system has the same needs as muscles and brains, and it also uses glucose and glutamine (converted from glucose) as "fuel", while athletes with too self-disciplined diet consume less carbs and get less glucose from food, which indirectly leads to insufficient fuel for the immune system and falls into an "energy crisis".
Cristiano Ronaldo became the first Covid patient in the 2020 Portuguese national team.
Messi, who is also self-disciplined, was also diagnosed with the new crown in January 2022.
So, how can we adjust our diet to boost our body's immune function during the pandemic?
How to eat can strengthen immunity
Since each person's body functions, structure, and physique are different, it is difficult to create a healthy eating template for everyone, so it is key to achieve a balanced diet first, including avoiding extreme low-carb water, low-fat diets, or high-carb, high-fat diets.
Friends who usually strictly control low-carb water and low-fat diets can relax their control slightly during the epidemic; And friends who did not have low-carb water and low-fat diets before should not start such control plans during the epidemic.
When conditions permit, friends who do not exercise much can learn from the nutritional combination of Ronaldo's recipe, and adjust the proportion of carbide and fat nutrients according to their own conditions, and try to try more types of foods to achieve the purpose of nutritional balance under the premise of avoiding their own allergenic foods.
Friends who cannot guarantee a balanced diet for special reasons (can't buy vegetables) can achieve the purpose of eating a balanced diet through dietary supplements, but do not consume supplements in large quantities.
Dietary supplements, like drugs, eating too much is extremely harmful to the body. For example, fat-soluble vitamin A, has the function of maintaining the normal operation of the immune system, vitamin A deficiency will not only reduce the body's immune function, but also appear dry eyes, night blindness, eye itching, corneal softening, dry skin, skin desquamation, skin papules of the limbs and other problems, but excessive intake will lead to "vitamin A poisoning".
"Vitamin A poisoning" will cause symptoms such as dry skin, headache, irritability, vomiting, bone pain, etc., and clinically there are cases of poisoning caused by a single consumption of a large amount of animal liver (such as pork liver) or a single large dose of vitamin A preparation.
"Vitamin A poisoning" is no less harmful than Lianhua Qingwen with ibuprofen
In addition to deliberately improving immunity through diet, drinking more water, sleeping well, and feeling good are always the most effective and safest means to enhance immunity.
Source: China Newsweek