the desirable from the disastrous. Even if you're not trying to lose weight, these five popular diets include healthy principles that are perfect for runners too.These top tips are a sneak preview of the full article from the new issue of Runner's World
- such as eating seven or more portions of fruit and vegetables every day, and building your meals around low GI carbs - you should lose weight and gain energy. "Low GI eating is really a healthy balanced eating plan rather than a weight-loss regime," says Bean
fractures, but in the long term difficulty conceiving and the early onset of osteoporosis are also possibilties.In the 1970s experts thought amenorrhoea was linked to weight loss or low body fat but that view has since changed. Now an energy imbalance
in life. "I was quite fat really," he says, "so I started doing weights and tried the treadmill. I realised that I did enjoy running after all." Soon he was spending more time on the treadmill than the weights bench and entered a 10K race with the aim
cent loss in body weight caused by dehydration can lead to anything up to a 20 per cent drop in performance; in fact, even a one per cent drop can significantly diminish the performance of some individuals. While most research would support the view
