Friday, November 21, 2008

Eating right while recovering

Just a quick note on this. Since protein is absolutely essential for muscle growth/repair its important to eat a lot of protein during the healing process. Just like if you are physically active you need a lot of protein, now with cut skin and a cut muscle your body needs protein to repair everything as best it can. I'm eating a lot of tuna and drinking a lot of green tea (buy an iced tea maker - they rock). There is an asian food market nearby that has green tea w/ roasted brown rice which gives it a very unique and tasty flavor. Drink lots of liquids too.

Insert blurb about eating your vegetables here, using whatever nagging voice from your childhood that fits : )


Here is more info:

http://www.thedietchannel.com/Post-Surgical-Nutrition-Speed-Your-Healing-With-A-Good-Diet-and-Supplement-Plan.htm


Now to play devil's advocate here is an interesting study on rats and having them heal under malnutrition doesn't seem to affect the healing process. These are rats, not people though. Does the same hold true? Why risk finding out, it only makes sense to be healthy while healing.

http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=3677619

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