3 Ways Your Diet Impacts Work Performance

A major deadline is about to hit, you have been working all day and now into the night. With all this craziness you have only stopped to grab the next cup of coffee or a muffin from your local cafe before you get right back to the grind. This may feel exhilarating at first, but it isn’t going to create peak performance and help you stay productive. Consider this, your mind is a muscle, it is a professional athlete in the creative and business world. Like all pros, you need to take care of yourself, recover, and yes, be fueled properly. Yep, you heard me put that candy bar down right now. The next time you are tempted to neglect your nutrition consider these three ways it will impact your performance and how to combat it during times of stress. 1. Productivity will take a hit. A typical breakfast consists of cereal, toast, muffins, and fruit. But is all that early morning carbohydrate loading going to help you all day? Research shows that high carbohydrate breakfasts similar to those of a standard America diet cause substantial impact to brain tryptophan levels and serotonin synthesis. What this means is, when you eat a lot of carbohydrates in one sitting your productivity takes a major hit. Your mood and cognition are greatly impacted and lead to fluctuations and reduction in your ability to focus and complete tasks. That sounds like a recipe for disaster. But it can be fixed by having breakfast with varied nutrients if you spend a little time at the beginning of the week preparing. The more you can do upfront, the less you have to worry as the week rolls on. Hard boil some eggs and grab a few beneficial fruits from the store. Eggs contain choline […]

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