While many people complain of being tired or even overworked throughout the year, this does not necessarily mean that they are eating poorly and that their eating behavior negatively influences their state of form. In reality, the tired may be related to a lack of sleep, a significant workload that lasts over time, a permanent stress that exhausts both the body and the mind, or even a disease (virus, chronic pathology …) and its treatments.
Once all these causes have been eliminated, fatigue can finally be the result of deficiencies linked to an unbalanced diet or a poor distribution of energy intake during the day. Before jumping on the boxes of food supplements, it is therefore useful to review your menus with your attending physician, a nutritionist or a dietitian, to adopt a diet that is both more balanced and richer in anti-fatigue foods.
What are the nutritional deficiencies that increase fatigue?
We can, for example, cite the following shortcomings:
Water: dehydration is a cause of fatigue, especially in the elderly.
Carbohydrates: Foods rich in carbohydrates provide energy and prevent heavy pumping during meals.
Proteins: essential for the proper functioning of the body, they are involved, among other things, in the immune defense process.
Vitamins : vitamin C fights against fatigue by allowing the good absorption of iron by the body. Vitamins B9 and B12 are necessary for the proper functioning of the nervous system.
Minerals: without iron, our organs, poorly oxygenated, function poorly. Magnesium is taken into account in many functions of the body (transmission of nerve impulses, muscle contraction, regulation of the heart rate, production of proteins, etc.).
Against fatigue: I organize my meals
• I avoid skipping meals.
• I eat at regular times.
• I do not skip breakfast which allows you to avoid the 11am pump stroke.
• I eat full meals that keep me calm enough to prevent cravings and fatigue.
• I opt for an anti-fatigue snack: a large glass of water with lemon juice.
