Sports Nutrition – Page 2

Hydration and Electrolytes: When do they matter?

0 Comments , in Sports Nutrition , Sustainable Sports Diet on 13-04-2025

To listen to advertisements for pre-workout products, sports drinks, electrolyte replacers, and recovery beverages, you’d think every person who exercises needs to worry about maintaining optimal fluid and electrolyte balance...

Buddha Bowls: A balanced meal for athletes

0 Comments , in Recipies , Sports Nutrition , Sustainable Sports Diet on 22-03-2025

By guest blogger Emma L’Esperance, nutrition student at Simmons University For the Instagram version: Emma’s Buddha Bowl A Buddha bowl is a bowl with little bites of various foods filled up...

Athletes, Food & Fear of Weight Gain

0 Comments , in Sports Nutrition , Sustainable Sports Diet , Uncategorized , Weight on 17-03-2025

As a sports nutritionist, I spend too many counseling hours resolving the weight concerns of athletic people. Females and males alike come to me, trying to figure out how to...

Snacking, Food Addiction & Food Noise

0 Comments , in Sports Nutrition , Sustainable Sports Diet , Weight on 14-03-2025

” I eat way too many chips, even though I know they are bad for me…” “I get into the cookies all the time. I think I’m addicted to sugar…”...

Is Weight Gain the Problem? Or the Symptom?

0 Comments , in Sports Nutrition , Sustainable Sports Diet , Weight on 24-02-2025

Written by guest blogger Emma L’Esperance, nutrition student at Simmons University After listening to sports nutritionist Nancy Clark’s seminar on weight loss and athletes, the main comment that stood out...

Optimizing Your Immune Response

0 Comments , in Sports Nutrition , Sustainable Sports Diet , Uncategorized , Weight on 11-02-2025

I fear getting sick when I travel to competitions. Anything I can eat to prevent illness? What are the best foods to boost my immune system? I have nasty scrapes...

Food and Flexibility: Fighting the Plague of Perfection Among Athletes

0 Comments , in Sports Nutrition , Sustainable Sports Diet , Weight on 06-02-2025

Written by guest blogger Emma L‘Esperance. As I listened to a podcast on Athlete Nutrition: How to Fuel Properly for Your Sport with highly knowledgeable nutrition professionals discussing ways athletes can...

Sports Nutrition on a Budget

0 Comments , in Recipies , Sports Nutrition , Sustainable Sports Diet on 12-11-2024

Athletes get hungry—and feeding hungry athletes can get quite expensive. I commonly hear comments such as: My teenage athletes are eating me out of house and home. Protein bars and...

Nutrition Updates from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND)

0 Comments , in Sports Nutrition , Sustainable Sports Diet , Weight on 11-10-2024

The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND) is the nation’s largest group of food and nutrition professionals. At their annual convention (Oct 2024; Minneapolis), members presented research and updates that...

The Athlete’s Gut: Health and Sports Performance

0 Comments , in Sports Nutrition , Sustainable Sports Diet on 13-09-2024

The gut, also called the intestinal tract, includes the stomach, intestines, and colon. An amazing number of life-sustaining and performance-enhancing events happen in the gut—including but not limited to digestion...