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Bariatric surgery athlete counseling can be a great learning experience due to their unique fueling needs.

Successful Athletes After Bariatric Surgery Impart Lessons for Triumph

Leave a Comment / Blog, Sports Nutrition, Weight Loss / By Laurie

These amazing athletes require special sports nutrition considerations, counseling skills and the ability to refer out when needed. I’ve worked with a variety of bariatric surgery athletes over the last decade and consulted with many more. They have some particular needs when it comes to fueling and hydrating, and even more considerations when it comes […]

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Energy Bites Power Your Way to Winning

Leave a Comment / Food, Fun Food Facts, Sports Nutrition / By Laurie

Recipes for energy bites that make these tempting morsels perfect for you! There are many snack options available, but very few allow you to fully personalize for performance, taste and how you feel on any given day. So why not give energy bites a try? What are Energy Bites? Energy bites (some people call them

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Nuts can be ground into butters that enhance sports performance. Picture of 4 types of nuts and nut butters displayed.

Win More and Perform Better with Nut Butter!

Leave a Comment / Food, Fun Food Facts, Sports Nutrition / By Laurie

Shelf-stable, adaptable, and tasty. What’s not to like? Notice: if you’re allergic to nuts, don’t eat nuts or nut butter! If you think you’re allergic to nuts, don’t eat nuts and go get an allergy test. Now. What is a nut butter? Nut butters are nuts ground into a spreadable paste, similar in consistency to

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Vitamin D: Perform better, be stronger, improve mood!

Leave a Comment / Food, Nutritional Supplements, Sports Nutrition / By Laurie

This pro-hormone and essential nutrient doesn’t just regulate bone density any more! How does Vitamin D work? The “classical” actions of vitamin D were discovered and fleshed out between about 1918 and the late 1960s. This “vitamin” is actually a steroid pro-hormone derived from the cholesterol molecule after irradiation with ultraviolet B exposure (sunlight or

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Leucine: Perform better and maximize your muscle through diet!

Leave a Comment / Food, Nutritional Supplements, Sports Nutrition / By Laurie

It’s important to get leucine in every meal. What is leucine? Leucine is an amino acid, one of 20 building blocks that commonly show up in human protein structures. It is also one of nine essential amino acids (EAA), in that we can’t make it in our body and so much consume it in our

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