Why is power in nutrition?

Hello and welcome to today's webinar. I am a certified dietitian and sports dietitian. Today's topic is the power of nutrition, and we are going to look at how you can use nutrition to fuel your body, improve your health and improve performance so if you are tuning in, and you have a question you can drop us a line on Twitter using the hashtag UCLA MD chat, or you can comment on our Facebook page, and we'll answer those questions at the end of today's webinar so a quick outline of what we'll be discussing per day first thing we're going to do is we're going to look at nutrition and re-define it, something a little more up to date, and then we're going to follow through by talking about the impact nutrition has on your daily performance we are going, to look at the difference between poor nutrition, and optimal nutrition, and that will lead to what I call the five basic principles of optimal nutrition, and then we're finally going to end by putting everything into practice, you understand what you EAT need eat, on o doe to really get the most out of this information you will receive today just a brief introduction Aria, mentioned I am a registered dietitian and sports nutritionist I work out of the UCLA Health Sports Performance Center which is located in UCLA health training center in El Segundo, home of the LA Lakers in our facility, we provide performance training and fitness classes for high school and elite athletes as well as recreational-only adults looking to get back in shape from my end of things I provide nutritional support for all those members and that comes in the form of evaluations and assessments body composition measurements and creating a nutrition action plan that they can take and start implementing into their daily routine so the first thing I want to discuss is redefine what nutrition is so if you look in a dictionary, a typical food definition is something like this, huh, t says it's the process of obtaining NG food the food needed for health and growth what's great they say you use food to keep you alive and functioning I'm sure that's what we all want, but when we talk about optimal health and optimal nutrition I think we need to expand this definition, so this is how we define optimal nutrition. We see it eating the right amount of nutrients within a proper schedule to achieve the best performance and the longest possible life in good health, so what that essentially means is that we use nutrition to not only maximize health and happiness and well-being, but if you are athletic to also improve your athletic performance and diet can have a profound impact not only on your day to day health but if you are also an athlete in terms of your athletic performance so here we look at which daily perspective we can see is that good optimal dietary habits can reduce your risk of developing diseases and conditions such as cancer diabetes and heart disease it can also make it easier to lose fat mass and gain muscle mass, which is optimal for good health and tissue quality, so things like nails, skin, hair, and teeth, good nutrition supports those whose specific Every tissue joint health is a big deal especially as we age good optimal nutrition can reduce the risk of developing arthritis and other degenerative joint diseases and finally if you are a teenager, and you are in your growing period good nutrition can that support growth and development, so that you reach your full potential so that the daily effects of optimal nutrition are more profound than from a performance point of view, so this could be athletic performance or this could just be daily performance even work performance optimal nutrition can improve cognitive function thus support things like focus and concentration and quick decision-making skills, although it can all be enhanced and enhanced by proper nutrition your ability to exercise so not just exercise train longer and harder but exercise at a higher intensity which is all enhanced by simply good incorporate food habits into your routine men, things like energy and stamina again from an athletic point of view is very important but only the energy to get through a typical day is improved by proper nutrition strength and strength from a performance standpoint is improved your risk of injury decreases so if you are prone to injury, you may want to look into the quality of your diet and good dietary habits can reduce that risk of injury and also help you recover from an injury if you've had one in the past and last a lot of people suffer from poor sleep, and often it is related to diet, so the quality of sleep can be improved by just making some changes to your eating habits so what we want to take look at now is look at the difference+