Nutrition

Magnesium plays a vital role in the human body, often overlooked despite its significance in maintaining optimal health. It is an essential mineral involved in over 300 biochemical reactions, impacting everything from energy production and…
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Running is one of the best sports that, with its benefits, brings great success to everyone who practices it. However, there is a way to raise running to a higher level and make the results much more visible than before.
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As a sports nutritionist, I spend too many counseling hours resolving weight concerns of runners (and other athletics). Females and males alike come to me, trying to figure out how to lose weight. The eat less and move more paradigm doesn't…
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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 of the food we eat and…
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Thankfully for millions of runners around the globe, coffee can be enjoyed guilt-free as part of a healthy sports diet. Coffee contains nutrient-dense plant compounds called phytochemicals that promote health and offer strong anti-oxidant…
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Most runners love chocolate in any form: candy bars, chocolate chip cookies, squares of dark chocolate. Over 60% of all US candy sales are chocolate-based. But how good—or bad—is chocolate for our health? Is it as health-promoting as we…
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Many runners feel pressure to have a perfect body, perfect diet, and ideally, perfect races. The stress-inducing trait of perfectionism often pushes runners to not only become stronger and faster, but also leaner and food-phobic. We have…
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If you are like me, you were enthralled with watching the Tour de France and the Paris Olympics. I find myself wondering about the strategies those high-performing athletes use to fuel their bodies before, during, and after extremely hard…
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The American College of Sports is a professional organization for sport science researchers, educators, exercise physiologists, sports dietitians and doctors. At ACSM's Annual Meeting, more than 4,500 members  from around the globe…
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