The phenomenal development that sports medicine has undergone over the past years is due to the great social and economic repercussion of sports both professional and amateur today. And one of the basic facets of sports medicine is nutrition. All elite sportsmen follow a well planned diet. A great Change Until recently, most sports experts still recommended the consumption of large amounts of animal foods, especially meat. This is perhaps reminiscence from pre scientific medicine. According to such a view, the consumption of animal muscle should produce good muscles. Today, mass media have publicized the fact that some of the Olympic champions are vegetarian and that the majority reduce to the minimum or eliminate meat intake during the days preceding the games. It is also known that bicycle race champions basically follow a vegetarian diet in order to meet the maximum demands of this extremely hard competition. They follow high carbohydrate diet (cereals, Pasta and potatoes) with a moderate proportion of protein and fat. At times, what is good to the musculoskeletal system bones and muscles of these sports stars must also be good for everybody. Maximum physical and mental achievement is obtained through a diet that is based on vegetable products prepared in the most natural and simplest way.
