As a registered dietician, a common request I get is helping clients create meal plans. Theoretically, meal plans are easy, right? Get a plan and follow it. Unfortunately, it isn’t that simple. A plan ... Continue Reading
3 Things a Nutrition Coach Can’t Do for You
Nutritional coaching has been upwardly trending in recent months, with thousands of recreational athletes signing up for online nutrition coaching packages from start-ups like Renaissance Periodization and ... Continue Reading
Menopause Is Not a Weight-Gain Sentence
Menopause transition and post menopause can be a frustrating time for women when it comes to health and body composition. Menopause occurs in several stages across a wide range of ages, usually somewhere ... Continue Reading
More Muscle Mass Means a Higher Protein Intake, Right?
New research from the University of Stirling has found individuals with more muscle mass do not need relatively more protein after resistance training. Young, resistance-trained males were recruited ... Continue Reading
Does the Ketogenic Diet Work for Women?
There are three things you should never ask a woman: How old are you? Are you pregnant? Do you eat carbs? If you’re a woman, what emotions come up for you when you read that last ... Continue Reading
Snack Smart While Traveling
Eating on the go can be tricky. If you’re trying to trim body-fat, it takes time and effort to develop new eating habits, and it can be stressful when you can’t find an option to fit your new lifestyle. ... Continue Reading
Fuel Your Adventure: Backpacking Meal Ideas
I’ll be on a trail for a week in August without access to a grocery store, just the Colorado mountains. Many people take dehydrated food that you can buy at the camping store and I have to admit, it’s ... Continue Reading
How to Stick to Your Nutrition Goals While Traveling
Summer is finally here. School is out, the weather is warm, and vacation mode is in full swing. If you’re anything like me, your workdays are spent looking out the window, longing to be on a beach in a ... Continue Reading
Summertime Skewers: Two Shish Kabob Recipes
I can vividly recall the Minnesota State Fair foods from my childhood. The wonderful scent could be detected from miles away. Sweet Martha’s Cookies (with a side of ice cold milk), chili cheese fries, corn ... Continue Reading
The Use of Protein Powder for Fat Loss
To achieve weight loss these days, a lot of people are ramping up their protein intake. Naturally, by weight loss we specifically mean fat loss. There is strong evidence that upping protein intake ... Continue Reading
Is a Ketogenic Diet Really More Effective for Fat Loss?
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition published a study last week to investigate claims that a ketogenic diet can facilitate greater fat loss than diets relatively higher in carbohydrate. ... Continue Reading
A Lemon-Filled Life: 3 Lemonade Recipes
Lemons provide vitamins and minerals to support an active lifestyle. They are an excellent source of vitamin C, potassium, magnesium, and copper. Their appealing scent reduces stress, and they are easy to ... Continue Reading
Summertime Post-Workout Nutrition
Summer can be a tough time to have a big appetite. Even after a workout, the heat can turn many of us off from food. The same goes for water. How many bottles can you drink before you get sick of it? Being ... Continue Reading
Deliciously Nutritious: Garlic Soup with Kale Crisps
Everyone can get all the health support they need by just eating real food. Shunning whole food for pills, powders, or potions is missing a huge opportunity for dietary diversity. Flavourful food is one of ... Continue Reading
Higher Unsaturated Fat Intake Associated With Lower Mortality Rates
Consuming higher amounts of unsaturated fats has been associated with lower mortality, according to a study published on July 5th from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. In a large data ... Continue Reading
Simply Satisfying: Italian Baked Eggs
Summer has arrived and the sun beckons us outdoors, often leaving meals as a secondary thought while enjoying patio time or outdoor training sessions. Long training days require easy meals to power through ... Continue Reading
10 Universal Truths in Fitness and Nutrition
Over the last few weeks we’ve observed a few similarities between the nutrition industry and British politics. The political atmosphere in the UK has been dominated by conflicting agendas for some time ... Continue Reading
The Quick and Dirty Guide to Eating Clean
Counting calories, using food scales, tracking macronutrients, timing meals down to the minute, and using other tedious dieting methods are all the rage these days. If it isn’t backed by science or uttered ... Continue Reading
Real Food Fundamentals
People will give you all kinds of advice about what to eat and not eat. Most often that advice is based on something they read that reinforces their personal thoughts, or it’s based on something that works ... Continue Reading
Are You Eating Enough Fiber?
If you want to improve your performance and health while aging without disease then you need to eat fiber. Unfortunately, we live in a fiber-deprived world. The processing of our food removes valuable ... Continue Reading
Death by Exaggeration: 3 Facts About Fat
Fat used to be a four-letter word. After a deluge of studies emerged in the 20th century linking dietary fat to a higher risk of cardiovascular disease, a swarm of low-fat products descended into ... Continue Reading
Protein Requirements for the Ageing Athlete
I was asked to pick a subject matter that would be of interest to the athletic population that read Breaking Muscle Australia and thought what better than the actual subject of breaking muscle. ... Continue Reading
A Peek Inside Renaissance Periodization
In theory, weight training is fairly simple. You lift weights. You build muscle. You burn fat. You see results. However, if it was that easy, we’d all have the bodies we want, right? The trap many folks ... Continue Reading
Fundamentals for Meal Prep Phobics
As bathing suit season quickly approaches, you may be doing everything right in the gym to prepare yourself, but what happens when you still aren’t seeing results? The answer may be right in your own ... Continue Reading
