If you’ve ever wondered about the link between food and performance, then you need look no further than the current season of ‘Australian Survivor 2019’.

The match up between the elite athletes known as the Champions and their everyday Aussie competitors the Contenders, provides a very accurate picture of food and how it affects a person’s ability to perform at their peak.

The Champions have won the last three food rewards and have subsequently lost the immunity challenges that followed. You have to wonder if the array of calories on offer was more of a curse than a blessing.

The first decadent food reward was sugary marshmellows and hot chocolate.

The second food reward was greasy fish and chips.

And the third food reward was hamburgers with the lot & beer!

Meanwhile the Contenders had to be content with their beans, rice, coconut and mangos. Strangely though, they keep winning the all important immunity challanges which keep them in the game.

Admittedly, it’s human nature that if we’re starving we’ll eat whatever is put in front of us, healthy or not.

The problem is that fast food like this, translates to slow food in the body. Especially when you give it to people who are in their 40’s, who have a lesser digestive capacity to be able to break foods down and store them as energy or eliminate them as toxins.

So when you need power and energy you will struggle to muster it.

The lesson for all of us here is that these are sometimes foods. It doesn’t matter if you’re an athlete or just getting through your day at the office, what you eat the majority of the time, will determine your energy, vitality and overall performance, mentally and physically.