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Disordered Eating: Running on Empty
By Caleb Daniloff on 09/04/2012 09:00:00
Discover how the pressures of performance and self image can take you across the line from smart nutrition to damaging ‘disordered eating’
worst nightmare. But somewhere, I’d heard that I could run about two seconds per mile faster for every pound I lost. Accurate or not, this information radically changed my diet.For the first time in my life, I started scrutinising nutrition labels. I
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12 Runners Superfoods: Energy
By on 27/12/2011 10:00:00
Make your running fuel work harder for you with this selection of tasty everyday combos
with lycopene, an antioxidant 100 times more powerful than vitamin E. That power is put to use in your body in repairing DNA damage caused by pollution, intense training and everything else everyday life throws at you. And the avocado? Your body absorbs lycopene
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Healthy Fast Food (Preview)
By Chris Broadbent on 08/03/2010 18:16:02
Your best meal is probably the one you cook yourself, but sometimes you have to make do with takeaways, which can be something of a nutritional minefield (non-subscriber preview)
When you make a meal from scratch you know exactly what you're going to be eating and you can add as many healthy ingredients as you like. Unfortunately, holding down a job, having a life outside that job and training for triathlon often leave
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Promotion: Fuel VLM with Lucozade Sport
By on 10/04/2013 17:48:42
Running a marathon, whether for the first time or as an experienced athlete, is a huge challenge and getting a suitable nutrition and fuelling strategy is often the one subject that troubles runners the most.Ensuring your body is stocked up
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Supplementary Benefits?
By Kate Szumanski on 22/12/2002 19:41:19
Makers of supplements promise you the earth. But will their products really make you slimmer, trimmer, faster and stronger? We investigate the time-released mega-complex world of nutritional supplements
dietary intakes, may choose a multivitamin or mineral supplement to help safeguard their diet. This is good news if youve ever been tempted to incorporate nutritional supplements along with your diet and training.In a 1991 article in the International
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The Making Of A Healthy Diet (Preview)
By Liz Applegate on 28/09/2005 17:06:03
Fuel your performance with these two healthy eating plans (Non-subscriber preview)
. There is one area of nutrition, though, where copying America might just be a good idea. Earlier this year the US Government updated its nutrition guidelines – the recommended daily amounts of staples such as sugars and fats. They based the new guidelines
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Taper & Race-day Nutrition Q+A: Nick Morgan
By Nick Morgan on 06/04/2009 12:19:01
More expert answers to your marathon nutrition questions from Lucozade Sport's Lead Sport Scientist Nick Morgan
runs (or last long run) in training. If you still have concerns, then my advice would be to pace yourself carefully so you don't go off too fast. Otherwise you will really challenge your carbohydrate stores.Q. Are energy products such as chews and gels
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60-Second Guide: Carb-Loading
By Alice Palmer on 23/04/2010 08:28:51
Forget ploughing through plates of pasta - get the carb-loading low-down with these simple dos and don'ts
. The heavy training load was sometimes a case of too much, too soon before a big race; and the low-carb diet left runners hungry and low in morale in the run-up to race day. Runners also found it tough to stuff themselves with enough carbs in the final three
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Take it away
By on 08/02/2013 12:53:48
Your best meal is probably the one you cook yourself, but sometimes you have to make do with takeaways, which can be something of a nutritional minefield. We asked Dr Kevin Currell, Performance Nutritionist for British Triathlon, for advice on 10 high-street takeaway options, from the not bad to the perfectly awful.
ranks lower on glycaemic index, which means it releases energy from the carbohydrate stores at a slower rate and can give you more sustained energy for your training sessions.KEBAB HOUSENot as bad as you might think. “Although a lot of the meat is poor
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No-Nonsense Nutrients
By Liz Applegate on 05/06/2002 19:32:37
When it comes to negotiating the nutritional minefield, there are just 10 essentials that will keep you running fit
shown them to be extra susceptible to bone-mineral loss because of their intense training.To keep your bones in peak condition, eat plenty of dairy products, or up your intake of calcium-fortified soya milk, tofu, salmon or broccoli
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