SELF-CONFESSED “sugar freak” Kai Havertz claims scoffing gummy bears and Skittles at half-time has transformed his form.
The attacker revealed that Chelsea’s nutritionist REVERSED a sugar ban imposed by his own eating expert.
The Germany star believes he felt worse after initially trying to become “more professional” and following the instructions of a personal nutritionist.
Now he believes he’s his old self – after his club’s dietary specialist advisor said the 23-year-old NEEDS the sugar.
Ahead of Tuesday’s Premier League clash at home to Liverpool, Havertz told German outlet EHRENPFLAUME: “Last summer I completely changed my diet and had a nutritionist.
“I just wanted to become a bit more professional and everything like that.
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“I did that for half a year actually and we had a cook in London at the beginning, who came every day and cooked for us.
“And I have to say, I did not feel good at all. This has had the complete opposite effect on me.”
Havertz said he drank coke after games and “I need sweets and stuff because that gives me strength and energy”.
The advice from his nutritionist, however, was to “stop completely with it”.
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And the former Bayer Leverkusen ace claims that change backfired.
He said: “I stopped completely and that had the opposite effect on me.
“Then we got a nutritionist at Chelsea and he completely went the other policy and said, ‘Kai, you need the Fanta, you need the coke, drink one a day’.
“At half-time I get gummy bears, skittles or something.
“He has completely followed the opposite policy and… I was full of energy again.
“That’s why now the tide has turned a bit.”
But Havertz reckons there’s another reason too.
He said: “Now (girlfriend) Sophia (Weber) is the cook and actually cooks almost every day now.”
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