Kingston, Jamaica, Jamaica has delivered many powerful runner, one of which is theworld’s fastest man Usain Bolt. According to the study, the Jamaican ran good because eating sweet potatoes and green bananas as a staple food.
Professor Errol Morrison, scientists from the University of Technology in Jamaica revealit in one of the research hypothesis. According to him, two types of staple food of people of Jamaica are holding a key role in coaching athletes to run.

Based on biochemical analysis and anatomy, Prof. Morrison revealed that sweet potatocontains hyposteroid that functions as a generator of stamina. While the green bananas,phytate content in it can maintain the availability of energy reserves.

“But you can not just eat bananas continue his run so fast. What happens in Jamaica,both of these foods became a staple food consumed since a very early age,” ProfessorMorrison said as quoted by FoxNews.

Professor Morrison added, the benefits of sweet potatoes and green bananas for therunners actually did not directly make his running speed increases. A variety of content in it only improves energy metabolism, which then needed to run fast.

Of course, the staple food is not the only factor that makes Jamaikan so dominateathletics in particular the sprint or sprint. Still according to Professor Morrison, Jamaicais the only country that has a coaching runners since childhood.

No wonder so many birth Jamaican sprinters such as Usain Bolt reliable, fastest manwho ever set a world record in the number of run 100 m, 200 m and 4×100 m. In the international championship run in 2009 in Berlin, the daughter of Jamaican track team is also buying gold and silver medals in the 100 m.