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consistently low or nonexistent in all four diet plans.

• A typical dieter on any of these four popular diet plans would be,

on average, 56.48% deficient in obtaining RDI sufficiency, and
lacking in 15 out of the 27 essential micronutrients analyzed.

• Thus, it is pretty clearly that when dieting it is especially likely
that you will have some kind of micro nutritional deficiency.

The advice then is to consider covering your bases with a

multivitamin & mineral supplement (only if you are having trouble getting
all your micros while dieting).

It appears that there are performance benefits to be had from

eating vegetables. Green vegetables (spinach, rocket, and beetroot in
particular) have a lot of nitrate. An increase in nitrate intake can reduce the

cost of exercise and improve exercise tolerance. – Yes, Popeye was onto

something with eating all that spinach, and your mom was right in telling
you to eat your vegetables. Another great thing about eating our fruits and

veggies is that’s where up to about 20% of our hydration can come from.

Let’s talk about our water needs.