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Eat to win! Practice is only part of a winning sports strategy. Whole foods have to be part of the playbook to increase energy, endurance, and focus, both on and off the field. What to eat and when to eat, pre-game, during and afterwards? How much fluid do you need to be hydrated? What to eat when you’re on the road? These are critical answers to have for young athletes, competing on a demanding schedule and eating on the run. In this expanded second edition, simple nutritional lessons are organized into 10 Essential Eating Guidelines and recipes for cooking healthy meals and snacks with whole grains and vegetables. These recipes and eating tips offer a gateway for young players, parents, and coaches to improve performance and establish lifelong eating habits.
About the Author
Cynthia Lair has been a Professor for Bastyr University's School of Nutrition and Exercise Science since 1994. She founded their B.S. in Nutrition and Culinary Arts program. Find her on video in the on-line cooking show Cookus Interruptus: how to cook fresh, local, seasonal whole foods despite life's interruptions.
Watch her TEDx Rainier talk "How to Cut an Onion" on YouTube.
Ms. Lair has been an invited speaker at the Food as Medicine Conference, La Leche League conventions and the 2015 and 2017 Nutrition & Health Conference (Arizona) . She has taught whole foods cooking classes at the Puget Consumer's Coop, Sur La Table, Evergreen Hospital, Pike Place Market and many other venues. Latest schedule: www.cynthialair.com.
A new, fully-revised fourth edition of her popular cookbook, Feeding the Whole Family (which has sold over 80,000 copies) comes out November 2016. Her second book, Feeding the Young Athlete: Sports Nutrition Made Easy for Players and Parents was released in 2012.
