There are foods that are almost certainly eaten and taken on a regular basis with the belief that they make you feel better, but actually only make you feel more tired and fatigued. A premise is needed: a great many people feel tired for no particular reason. Carrying out a sporting activity and feeling tired afterwards is perfectly normal: but there are those who, without increasing the workload, never manage to recover energy and feel rested.
When this sensation is a new symptom, obviously it is best to contact your doctor first. But often the reason is to be found in wrong eating habits. In fact, those who suffer from chronic fatigue often make this unthinkable mistake related to food. Those who feel tired try to recover by eating some foods that, in the popular sense, are more energetic. For example, sugar. It’s a commonplace to eat a snack when you feel tired. Rapidly increasing blood glucose is certainly an intervention that gives immediate effect, but in the long run it is a wrong habit. The increase in energy will indeed be rapid, but then the pancreas will intervene to produce insulin and lower the blood sugar level, finally creating the opposite effect. These wave solutions are then generated with the energy that inevitably ends at a certain point.
Those suffering from chronic fatigue can often make this unthinkable mistake related to food
Therefore, sugars should actually be avoided to try to recover extra energy. Same goes for coffee. This drink certainly has benefits, especially on metabolic activity. But in the long run, caffeine causes a real addiction with the risk of tachycardias, worsening sleep. This is because in fact it is an artificial energy, which even risks not letting you notice when there is a problem of another nature that causes fatigue. Those who feel tired should instead try not to consume more coffee for some time, to allow the body to ‘clean up’ and not rely on what is in fact a temporary solution. The ultimate goal is to restore stable energy levels.
Finally, the energy drinks. They are very popular and there is this misconception that they can ‘give wings’, but again this is an artificial effect. They do not recover energy and reduce fatigue, but with substances such as taurine they create a harmful ‘push’ effect on an already tried organism, which instead would only need to rest and maybe eat better.
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