FFK102: Nutrition for teen athletes and sporty children, with Ellie King
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This episode discusses nutrition for teen athletes and sporty children with expert Ellie King.
Hello and welcome to the food for kids podcast, I’m Joanne from the foodies. Today’s episode is for the parents who have sporty kids in their house and want to know if they should be doing something special with their food to help them. You can’t scroll for more than a minute on social media now without seeing someone telling you to eat more protein, eat more fibre, eat your way to your exercise goals. Some of it is based in some nutritional science, lots of it is taken out of context and only really intended for professional athletes or serious weight trainers. And some of it is just plain inaccurate. But even if you manage to navigate which advice to listen to as an adult who does a lot of sport, how does any of it apply to child or teen athletes? Do you need to do anything different with food if your child is just sporty but not unusually so? If they’re in a serious team? If they train every day? Or if they perform at a high level? It’s easy to worry about whether you could be helping them more with their sport if you just knew what to do with their food. Because there is so much inappropriate information out there, I wanted some one properly qualified to answer this, with…
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