Rob Gronkowski says that Tom Brady helped him cut out processed sugars and eat better. Cutting out white refined artificial sugar will help anyone feel better and step up their play. Also, “Ex-nay” on the refined sugar supercharges your energy. And, that will boost and increase your performance and training as well. So, you may be thinking, how does this work? Well, let me give you some insider info about why Rob and Tom have superior performance on the field, excellent health, and always feel good.

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“I just learned that over time by watching him eat, obviously everything he’s putting in his body from desserts to the meal that he’s eating is all clean products, it’s all clean foods.”  – Gronkowski

Rob said in an interview: “I love desserts, but it has to all be naturally grown ingredients. I’ll have sugar, but it has to be organic cane or brown sugar, not some refined synthetic sugar or high-fructose corn syrup. Just all-natural products, all-natural food.” Nutrition is essential to performance, recovery, and health. The result of the equation is longevity. You need to eat well so your body can feel good and function properly. Having support from Tom definitely helped Rob improve his play on the field. He says he feels like a brand-new person. The premise of Tom’s diet is to eliminate foods that produce inflammation. Inflammation, especially caused by sugar, beats up your body in to dysfunction.

However, support for nutrition is important. First of all, Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen, his wife, and the family eat the same way. So, having support at home makes a difficult task seem simple. In the Brady/Bundchen family diet, there is no white flour, white salt, or white sugar at home. In addition, they avoid foods that create inflammation like MSG, tomatoes, mushrooms, eggplant, caffeine, and dairy.

The Sweet Sugar Issue

The pro-inflammation effect is the problem with refined sugar. It highly creates inflammation that leads to childhood obesity, adult obesity, excess adult belly fat that leads to diabetes. In addition, refined sugar is a high-risk factor for cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer’s, fatigue, depression, emotional issues, difficulty thinking, neurological disorders, stress, behavior issues, and anxiety.

Refined sugar crashes your energy, increases inflammation in your muscles and joints that lead to injuries, makes you constantly feel fatigued and difficult to recover. You lose muscle pliability as well which Tom seems to have evaded.

Not All Sugar is Created Equal

So, when you see that an apple has 19g and a Snickers bar has 20g of sugar, you may think, why not just eat the Snickers bar? Right? Not all sugars are created equally. You have to think of it like the green energy idea. White table sugar is refined and artificial. So, when it is broken down, it pollutes your body. It does not just lead to diabetes; it leads to cancer, brain and heart disease. Now with natural sugar that you have in fruit, let’s say an apple, or, the organic sugar Rob uses, it is natural. Therefore, it is easier and cleaner to break down and use for energy without any residual effects to pollute your body.

Fruit and Fiber

The secret to eating fruit and sugar is in the fiber. An apple has other minerals that regulate the digestion of natural sugar. However, fiber is the star. Fiber slows the digestion of sugar. In fact, people with diabetes who have a problem weening off sugar are told to eat fiber or whey protein, to slow down the spiking effect of their blood sugar. But, it is refined. So, you may escape one disease, but due to its artificial breakdown, it can lead to others like heart disease and cancer.

The Solution

The perfect solution to boost your health and enhance your performance on the field is to start avoiding sugar. When you avoid sugar, it makes it easier to quit other foods that contain it as well. You have to control the source first. If you are trying to stop eating a particular food, it takes about 7-14 days to clean the pallet and the cells in your body. If you have a problem quitting sugar, try the way mentioned above- eat sugar with fiber foods to slow digestion.

Brady is 44 years old and still has a babyface. But, he is also the best quarterback to play in the NFL. He still moves like a gazelle. Considering his health and performance, you can say his nutrition is definitely keeping him at the top of his game. Think about it, Tom is getting older and he still plays incredibly well. And, looks like he has boosted his football performance.