Optimum Nutrition: Achieving Peak Performance
Introduction: Basic Optimum Nutrition Today Basic optimum nutrition today entails a balanced diet from fresh foods and additional supplements. Recommended Daily Allowances (RDAs) and Recommended Nutrient Intakes (RNIs) give us the bare minimum of nutrients required to ward off deficiency diseases such as beri-beri, rickets, scurvy and night blindness. What they do not account for are the amounts needed to maintain maximum health rather than borderline health. In our chemically polluted and stress-filled world, our nutritional requirements have been increasing. The number of kilojoules or kilocalories we require have been decreasing as our general level of physical activity has declined. …

