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In a recent scientific review of Sports Medicine, an article has shown than practicing racquet sports were significantly reducing all-cause mortality and risks of cardio-vascular disease (CVD).

“Participation in racquet sports (including badminton, tennis and squash) showed significant risk reduction of 47% in all cause mortality and 59% reduction in CVD mortality. To the best of our knowledge little comparable data are available. A previous systematic review identified two studies on tennis and two on squash. One on tennis was a prospective cohort study, which showed decreased CVD risk among tennis players but no effect among racquetball players.

This is a great progress in sports sciences who should support the practice of physical activity as an effective form of health enhancing.

In order to gain lean muscle mass, you will need to combine two important factors :

• Healthy diet (rich of good quality proteins )
• High quality training program

How to measure the quality of proteins ?

– Amino-acids contents

– Digestibility

– Ability to support growth

The common food sources of proteins are :

– Animal food : This contains high-quality proteins. From 90 to 99% are absorbed.

– Veggies : Low quality proteins. From From 70 to 90% are absorbed.

– Breakfast cereals

– Bread

Please note that other foods consumed at the same time can change the digestibility.