Japanese sports nutritionists have found that eating fish after intense exercise can lead to increased fatigue.
We all know that fish is a high-protein, low-fat food that is very beneficial for fat loss and body shaping. Therefore, many people enjoy a hearty meal of fish after a workout, believing it effectively replenishes nutrients, restores energy, and alleviates fatigue. However, the reality is quite the opposite. Japanese sports nutritionists believe that eating fish after exercise makes you more tired.
“After physical labor or strenuous exercise, the body feels tired because it produces a large amount of lactic acid. Fish is an acidic food. Eating fish after exercise will acidify the blood, and combined with the large amount of lactic acid produced in the body, it will worsen the degree of fatigue,” a sports nutritionist explained. After a workout, you can eat milk, vegetables, fruits, seaweed, etc.
It is not advisable to eat chicken, fish, or eggs after exercise
Many people often experience muscle swelling, joint soreness, and mental fatigue after physical exercise. To quickly relieve fatigue, they will buy chicken, fish, meat, eggs, and other foods to eat a large meal, thinking this can supplement nutrition and meet the body's needs. In fact, eating these foods at this time is not only不利于解除疲劳 (not conducive to relieving fatigue), but can also have adverse effects on the body.
Human food can be divided into acidic and alkaline foods. The acidity or alkalinity of a food is not determined by people's sense of taste, nor by its chemical properties when dissolved in water, but by the acidity or alkalinity of the final metabolites produced after the food enters the human body. Acidic foods are usually rich in proteins, fats, and carbohydrates, and contain elements such as potassium, sodium, calcium, and magnesium. After metabolism in the body, they produce alkaline substances that can prevent the blood from becoming more acidic. Therefore, sour-tasting fruits are generally alkaline foods, not acidic foods. Although chicken, fish, meat, eggs, and sugar are not sour, they are acidic foods.
An American pathologist, after long-term research, pointed out that only when body fluids are weakly alkaline can human health be maintained. The body fluids of a normal person are weakly alkaline. After physical exercise, when a person feels muscle and joint soreness and mental fatigue, the main reason is that the body's sugars, fats, and proteins are broken down in large quantities. During this process, acidic substances such as lactic acid and phosphoric acid are produced. These acidic substances stimulate the body's tissues and organs, causing a person to feel muscle and joint soreness and mental fatigue. At this time, if one simply consumes foods rich in acidic substances such as meat, eggs, and fish, it will make the body fluids more acidic, which is not conducive to relieving fatigue. Eating foods like vegetables, sweet potatoes, citrus, and apples, due to their alkalizing effect, can eliminate excess acid in the body, reduce the acidity of urine, increase the solubility of uric acid, and reduce the possibility of acid forming stones in the bladder.
Therefore, after physical exercise, one should eat more alkaline-rich foods, such as fruits, vegetables, and soy products, to help maintain the basic balance of acid-base balance in the body, maintain human health, and quickly eliminate fatigue caused by exercise.