A fascination/obsession for many dancers and dance followers is nutrition and how it affects us as performers and athletes. I am definitely one such dancer. I have always been interested in what I eat and what it does to me once I have eaten it- whether that be to give me energy, give me a ‘high’, build muscle, put on weight, etc… And over the years I have experimented on myself to find out how my body best responds to nutrition-what it likes to absorb and when. There is a lot of misleading information out there as well as a lot of good research. But how do people decipher between the two?
I would never pretend to have the answers but I enjoy the speculation and the inquiry and will probably continue to experiment on myself as long as I live and eat!
I was lucky enough to live in Switzerland amongst the extraordinarily well-balanced and healthy Swiss. They had a no fuss approach which so differed from the molly coddling and obsessing of Australia, the UK and America. They ate what they liked but they didn’t over eat. Aha! So that’s the answer! Well, it is to a degree…
In exploring my own interest in health and nutrition I will hopefully be engaging yours and will be very interested to hear from you.
First up will be the debate between carbohydrates and protein and in true Ludwig spirit we’ve created our own “illustrations” for each of these topics… Stay tuned…