Healthy Eating and Diving, a medical investigation from Tanked Up Magazine

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22 February 2025

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	Physical Fitness and Diving It is a truth universally acknowledged that a diver about to embark on a morning dive must be in search of a good bacon butty. Ah the bacon butty, nothing causes more acrimonious arguments than the composition of the perfect bacon sandwich. Food researchers at Leeds University even created a formula to settle the debate once and for all! One thing is certain, however: bacon butties, beers and between-dive sweets do not a fit diver make and you don't need to be a top University researcher to see that. If you want to put your body into the high pressure, alien environment of the deep, it is probably best to feed it some fuel that it can work with effectively. With many years of diving experience circulating at LDC & MDC, we have had the occasion to learn through trial and (many a time) error, as well as hearing from patients, what it takes to have a pleasant day of diving. It should also not be ignored that what you eat could be the difference between a good, safe dive and what could potentially result in a contributing factor to decompression sickness. Whilst we are not asking you to stick to a religiously strict and mundane diet of rabbit food and water for the rest of your diving days, in our capacity as a professional diving medical facility, we would like to offer some guidance and gentle nudges in the right direction. Healthy divers mean happy divers, and happy healthy divers make a happy dive doctor... To read the rest of this article, you'll need to get your hands on Tanked Up Magazine. It's free. What are you waiting for?
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