Eating To Win
By Michael Roizen, M.D., and Mehmet Oz, M.D. Want to win the account or the golf or tennis match? Buy your opponent lunch, and make it a nice, big burger and fries.
If people's bodies react at all like rats' do (and we know they do in certain ways), your rival will bungle the presentation or be listless at the game while you're still going strong. Here's what happened in a recent study, when rats that spent just nine days eating a diet that got 55 percent of its calories from fat: They ran 35 percent less far on a treadmill and did worse on a cognitive test (a maze, not a crossword puzzle) than rats that got a little more than 7 percent of their calories from fat.
Think you can get away with just one fatty meal? Check this out: Volunteer college students who ate a single fatty meal right before they underwent tests designed to stress them out (including mental arithmetic and holding one hand under icy water) had sluggish blood vessel reactions to that stress. That indicates less ability to respond to an energy-demanding situation.
Your body, too, reacts like the rats' and the college students'. That's not good, because a cardiovascular system that cannot counteract stress means the stress is inhibiting your ability to be your best, whether you're responding to questions at a presentation or to the challenge of hitting a ball. So leave those stress-augmenting saturated and trans-fats for your competition, and maybe even offer to treat them to an extra order of fries.
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The YOU Docs, Mehmet Oz and Mike Roizen, are authors of "YOU: The Owner's Manual." Want more? See "The Dr. Oz Show" on TV starting Sept. 14 (check local listings). To submit questions, go to www.RealAge.com. (c) 2009 Michael Roizen, M.D. and Mehmet Oz, M.D. Distributed by King Features Syndicate, Inc.
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