Olympics Plant-Based Articles - Center for Nutrition Studies https://nutritionstudies.org/t/olympics/ Food. Science. Health. Thu, 05 Oct 2023 14:57:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 4 Questions With Vegan Volleyball World Champion Dustin Watten https://nutritionstudies.org/4-questions-with-vegan-athlete-volleyball-world-champion-dustin-watten/ Fri, 19 Apr 2019 20:40:39 +0000 http://nutritionstudies.org/?p=27233 Dustin Watten is not only a plant-based advocate he is also on the USA Men’s Volleyball Team and is a World Cup Champion. Learn more about how his plant-based diet affects his athletic performance.

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Written by Switch4Good.

]]> Dairy Talks Season 1 – Why Olympic Athletes Are Ditching Dairy https://nutritionstudies.org/dairy-talks-season-1-why-olympic-athletes-are-ditching-dairy/ Fri, 19 Apr 2019 19:29:55 +0000 http://nutritionstudies.org/?p=27219 Hear from Switch4Good’s core group of elite athletes and doctors about why they made the switch to go dairy free.

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Written by Switch4Good.

]]> NFL Super Bowl & Olympic Team Nutritionist on Athletic Performance & Food https://nutritionstudies.org/nfl-olympic-nutritionist-food-affects-athletic-performance/ Thu, 19 Oct 2017 16:35:20 +0000 http://nutritionstudies.org/?p=17803 Dan Benardot, PhD, NFL nutritionist and Olympic team nutritionist talks about how losing weight is the wrong metric. How can we change existing paradigms in sports?

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Written by Dan Benardot, PhD, RD, LD, FACSM.

]]> Olympic Team Nutritionist Talks About Energy Balance and Diet https://nutritionstudies.org/olympic-team-nutritionist-talks-energy-balance-and-diet/ Fri, 25 Aug 2017 16:14:09 +0000 http://nutritionstudies.org/?p=17048/ When working with an Olympic team, I saw that athletes didn’t eat or drink anything during their 5-hour practices. But, energy balance is critical to performance.

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Written by Dan Benardot, PhD, RD, LD, FACSM.

]]> Drinking Coffee for Energy? Why Not Eat a Snack? https://nutritionstudies.org/drinking-coffee-for-energy-why-not-eat-a-snack/ Mon, 24 Jul 2017 16:53:19 +0000 http://nutritionstudies.org/?p=16686/ The caffeine in your coffee is a simple nervous system stimulant. It fakes your brain into thinking that it's okay and actually masks low blood sugar.

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Written by Dan Benardot, PhD, RD, LD, FACSM.

]]> Top 10 Plant-Based Research and News Stories of 2016 https://nutritionstudies.org/top-10-plant-based-research-and-news-stories-2016/ Fri, 23 Dec 2016 15:51:42 +0000 http://nutritionstudies.org/?p=13572 The whole food, plant-based diet continues to gain popularity as public figures and science promote the favorable consequences of this healthful lifestyle.

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Written by Thomas Campbell, MD.

]]> More Plants on the Plate https://nutritionstudies.org/plants-plate/ Tue, 14 Jan 2014 15:23:44 +0000 http://nutritionstudies.org/?p=7744 Crispy, crunchy, colorful, and curiously delicious — all are words that describe a wide variety of vegetable, fruit, and whole-grain dishes.

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Written by Donna Krug.

]]> Muscling Out the Meat Myth https://nutritionstudies.org/muscling-meat-myth/ Sun, 12 Dec 2010 19:08:51 +0000 http://nutritionstudies.org/?p=4776 It's my guess that there's hardly another myth in nutrition so insidious yet so intractable as that which encourages us to believe that consuming lots of high-quality protein - basically the stuff of animal-based foods -

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Written by T. Colin Campbell, PhD.

]]> Reversing Heart Disease with Diet https://nutritionstudies.org/reversing-heart-disease-diet/ Fri, 29 Mar 1996 19:11:03 +0000 http://nutritionstudies.org/?p=4885 I would like to introduce you to my friend Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, Jr., a man you will be hearing a lot more about in the coming years. Having won a gold medal (Yale Crew team) in the 1956 Olympics, Dr. Esselstyn quickly advanced to a distinguished career in surgery at the renowned Cleveland Clinic Foundation. … Continued

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Written by T. Colin Campbell, PhD.

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