If you’ve hit mile 14 of a long run and felt your calf lock up, you know how fast cramping can end a training session. You also know how demoralizing it is to do everything else right — the mileage, the pacing, the sleep — and still get stopped cold by a muscle that won’t
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Ask most athletes what a sports dietitian does and you’ll get a version of the same answer: they tell you what to eat. Maybe they give you a meal plan. Maybe they fix your pre-race breakfast. It’s support work — a nice-to-have for elite athletes with full performance teams, a luxury for everyone else. This
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Orthorexia is one of the most common eating disorders nobody has heard of by name. Most people who develop it don’t recognize it as a disorder at all. It doesn’t look like the popular image of an eating disorder — there is no dramatic restriction, no visible weight loss necessarily, no obvious crisis. What it
Most runners and endurance athletes train in the morning. It fits the schedule, it gets it done before the day takes over, and for a lot of people it’s simply when they feel best. But morning training creates a specific nutritional challenge that afternoon and evening training doesn’t: you wake up in a fasted state
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The conversations that happen around food in a high school athlete’s home have an outsized effect on how that athlete thinks about food, their body, and their relationship with eating — effects that often extend well beyond the high school years. Parents who want to support their athlete’s performance and health are working with genuinely
Ultra-processed foods became one of the most talked-about nutrition topics of 2025 and 2026, and for good reason. A wave of research connecting ultra-processed food intake to outcomes ranging from cardiovascular disease and metabolic dysfunction to gut dysbiosis and depression landed in mainstream media in a way that nutrition research rarely does. People who had
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Most athletes understand that nutrition matters. Fewer have a clear picture of what working with a sports dietitian actually involves, what it produces that self-directed nutrition research doesn’t, and whether the investment makes sense for them specifically versus for elite athletes with professional support teams. The short version: a sports dietitian does considerably more than