Be sure you add a protein, not eliminate the carbohydrate food. If you live an active lifestyle you'll need more carbs than protein on a daily basis. About 55 percent of your total daily calories should come from grains, starches, fruits and vegetables, about 15 percent to 20 percent from fat, mostly unsaturated fat, and about 25 to 30 percent from protein foods - preferably vegetable proteins such as beans and legumes, low fat dairy products, some fish and poultry, and very little beef and pork. A sprain is an injury to a ligament, the tissue that connects one bone to another at the joints. A strain, commonly called a pulled muscle, is an injury to the muscle and tendon unit.
Tendons connect muscle to bone.
With proper treatment, a pulled muscle usually heals quickly. A sprain also responds to the RICE treatment, but sprains are more serious than strains and often require medical treatment. Sprains take more time to heal and sometimes require that one wear a cast or use crutches. Her column appears on Wednesdays.