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For people who teach sports nutrition…

0 Comments , in Sports Nutrition , Uncategorized on 07-09-2017

If you are asked to give a sports nutrition talk, don’t panic —and don’t re-invent the wheel. You can use my tried-and-true, readymade sports nutrition teaching materials. They are available...

If you believe butter is back, think again

0 Comments , in Sustainable Sports Diet , Uncategorized on 29-07-2017

The American Heart Association closely follows the vast amount of research related to heart disease and provides authoritative and evidence-based information on dietary patterns that reduce cardiovascular risk. Here is...

Suggestions for Nutrition Books

0 Comments , in Sports Nutrition , Sustainable Sports Diet , Uncategorized , Weight on 08-06-2017

If you have time to kick back and read a few books on your rest days, here are a few recommendations that might suit your fancy. Of course, these are...

Confused by anti-sugar information?

0 Comments , in Sports Nutrition , Sustainable Sports Diet , Uncategorized on 01-05-2017

Nancy, I’m currently watching an anti-sugar documentary … Yikes! Sugar and high fructose corn syrup are in almost everything: bread, crackers, cereal, processed foods. I have this urge to go to my...

What I learned on my trip to the cranberry bog…

0 Comments , in Sustainable Sports Diet , Uncategorized on 22-03-2017

The friendly folks at Ocean Spray recently invited me (and a group of registered dietitians who were in Boston for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics’ Food and Nutrition Conference...

Four wishes for you for the Holidays—and Beyond

0 Comments , in Sports Nutrition , Sustainable Sports Diet , Uncategorized , Weight on 20-12-2016

In this day and age of nutrition confusion, I have four wishes for you, my sports-active readers. May these wishes help guide any New Year’s Nutrition Resolutions you are pondering…...

Your Future: It’s In Your Gut!

0 Comments , in Sustainable Sports Diet , Uncategorized , Weight on 10-10-2016

When I think about eating, I think about the yummy taste of food and the pleasure of feeling satiated. But after attending a Harvard Medical School conference on Gut Health,...

Getting Older — Like It or Not

0 Comments , in Sports Nutrition , Uncategorized on 22-09-2016

Like it or not, every one of us is getting older day by day. Both athletes and fitness exercisers alike commonly wonder how aging impacts performance—and what they can do...

What’s new in nutrition for athletes?

0 Comments , in Sports Nutrition , Sustainable Sports Diet , Uncategorized , Weight on 13-09-2016

More than 3,000 research studies were presented at the American College of Sports Medicine’s Annual Meeting in Boston, 2016 (www.ACSM.org). Here are just seven nutrition-related highlights that might be of...

Food and Politics … sickening!

0 Comments , in Sustainable Sports Diet , Uncategorized on 08-12-2015

I don’t usually write about politics, but this sickening article needs to be shared … Leave the science alone on Dietary Guidelines of 2015 By Laura MacCleery Two-thirds of Americans...