Nancy is a Registered Dietitian and author of the best-selling “Nancy Clark’s Sports Nutrition Guidebook.” She is board certified as a specialist in sports dietetics (CSSD) and helps both recreational and serious athletes win with good nutrition. Her private practice is in the Boston area.
Sports Nutrition News You Can Use
More than 450 members of the Sports, Cardiovascular, and Wellness Nutrition (SCAN) practice group, the nation’s largest professional group of Sports and Cardiovascular Nutritionists (SCANdpg.org), convened in Baltimore in April 2012 to celebrate its 30th birthday and to learn the latest sports nutrition news. Here are a few highlights to help you “eat to win.”
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Dark Chocolate – A Health Food?
Chocolate, is it a bad food, an addictive drug, an instigator of dietary disasters? Or is it a health food, dieter’s weight loss aid, and effective recovery food when you’re tired or hungry? I vote for the latter! Personally and professionally, I like to think of chocolate (in moderation, of course) as one of life’s pleasures. Here is some research that might be of interest to people who love chocolate.
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Dieting Is Not Allowed!
It’s almost bathing suit season. Are you starting to panic because you’ll soon be shedding layers of winter clothing and exposing your body? When you have more flab than you want, fretting about excess body fat easily leads to plans to go on a diet, of which there are plenty of choices. Unfortunately, most diets don’t work in the long run. After all, if they did, everyone who has ever been on a diet would be lean.
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Water – A Wonderful Performance Enhancer
When a star U Conn basketball player took the advice of his sports nutritionist, Nancy Rodriguez, RD, and started drinking enough water to consistently void a light-colored urine, he was amazed at how much better he felt all day. Unfortunately, too many athletes and exercise enthusiasts overlook the power of this essential nutrient.
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Winter Nutrition: Fueling for Cold Weather Exercise
Whether you are a professional athlete or just like to exercise outdoors all year round, you want to pay careful attention to your diet during the cold months. Otherwise, lack of food and fluids can take the fun out of your activities. These tips can help you fuel wisely for cold weather workouts.
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Gluten-Free Diets
Gluten-free seems to be the latest nutrition buzzword. Gluten is a protein in wheat, rye and barley that must be avoided by people with celiac disease, an inherited autoimmune disorder. Symptoms of celiac vary greatly and can range from digestive problems (diarrhea, constipation, bloating, gas) to serious health problems such as anemia, stress fractures, infertility in both men and women, migraine headaches, canker sores, easy bruising of the skin, swelling of the hands and feet, and bone/joint pain.
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Why Is Weight Loss So Hard?
Weight loss is the number one reason my clients make appointments with me. Many express frustration over their inability to do something as simple as losing a few pounds. At a conference presented by Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School, and the Boston Nutrition Obesity Research Center (July 13-14, 2011), researchers addressed some of the issues that contribute to the difficulties of losing weight. Perhaps the following highlights offer a few insights if you are among those who struggle with shedding some unwanted body fat.
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2011 Sports Nutrition News from the American College of Sports Medicine
The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) is the world’s largest organization of sports medicine and exercise science professionals. At ACSM’s annual meeting in Denver, May 31-June 4, 2011, over 6,000 exercise scientists, sports dietitians, physicians and other health professionals gathered to share their research. Here are a few of the nutrition highlights.
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Exercise, Injury and Creatine
Each year, more than 5000 health professionals gather at the Annual Meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM). At this year’s meeting in Denver (June 1-4, 2011), exercise physiologists, sports medicine doctors and sports nutritionists shared their research and offered updates. Here are three examples that might be of interest.
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Dieting Gone Awry: When Food is Foe
Too many athletes are at war with food and their bodies. In their quest to attain the “perfect body” that is leaner, lighter and presumably faster and better, they have developed atypical eating patterns that are far from peaceful. As one client reported, “I’m trying so hard to lose five pounds but I’m getting nowhere. In fact, I’m even gaining weight. I’m “good” at breakfast and lunch, but after I get home from the gym at night, I end up devouring everything in sight. On weekends, my eating is even crazier.” Sounds familiar?
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When Food Has Too Much Power Over You
I routinely counsel food-obsessed exercisers/athletes who fear food as being the fattening enemy. They think about food all day, stay away from social events involving food, give themselves permission to eat only if they have exercised hard, and white-knuckle themselves to one meager portion at dinner. If you (or someone you know) struggles with food, keep reading.
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Carbs, Protein & Performance
Should I exercise on an empty stomach? How much protein should I eat after workouts? What percentage of my diet should come from carbohydrates? Is whey a good source of protein? These are just a few of the questions addressed at the 27th annual meeting of SCAN, the Sports And Cardiovascular Nutritionist’s practice group of the American Dietetic Association. Over 400 sports dietitians gathered to learn the latest news from prominent sports nutrition researchers. This article wants to give you the information you need to choose a winning sports diet.
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When Athletes Struggle With Food Cravings and Sugar Addiction
Food cravings and sugar addictions are a source of concern and frustration for many athletes who believe that eating one chocolate bar (or whatever food they crave) will lead them to overeating, expand their waistlines, and ruin their health. They avoid chocolate like the plague and, instead, snack on only “healthy foods,” like apples and oranges. While the natural goodness of fruit is indeed the more nutritious and health-promoting choice, some nice chocolate, enjoyed in response to a hankering, can also fit into your sports diet.
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