Submitted by Brett Elliott
Submitted by Brett Elliott on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 16:40
We did a nutrition experiment today with our Church youth group. These are boys between 12 and 17 years old. We split them up into two teams to make the steep 20 minute climb up mount Maunganui near our home. See picture from the halfway point looking down onto the beach.
We gave the first team raspberry fizzy drink, crunchy bars and gummy airplanes to munch on before and during the climb. We gave the second team apples, bananas and spirulina smoothie to keep them going.
It was a sweltering hot sunny day and very hard going in the blasting midday heat. We took pulse readings and noticed a significant difference between the two teams.
The junk fooders' lost by a country mile while the spirulina and fruiters were extremely happy and now converted to 'real food'.
A good outcome for a day at the beach :-)
Brett Elliott
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