Clare Wood - Sports Dietitian

Latest article on Topend Sports - Tips to prepare nutritionally to perform at your peak during fitness testing https://www.topendsports.com/testing/test-preparation-nutrition.htm

For any vegetarian or vegan athletes...

Milk versus milk like beverages | Jeukendrup - Trusted sports nutrition advice & exercise science news I grew up in Holland, a country where children drink a lot of milk. The milk came from a cow and other types of milk were rare. Nowadays there are many differen...

Can 'spices' in a sports drink be the next cure for cramps? More research please!

How Olympians Choose Which Sports Supplements Are Worth It Lots of elite athletes take performance-enhancing supplements--but precious few actually work.

Let's try and share the lifeboat, since both ships have some problems! Great article about balance. http://sportsscientists.com/2016/04/low-carbohydrate-diets-plea-balance-scientific-rigour-death-dogma/

Low carbohydrate diets: A plea for balance, scientific rigour & death to dogma | The Science of... After five years of watching bad science, defensiveness from both sides, and extremist advocacy rather than balance, I've written an article which is an appeal for nuance on the issue of low carbohydrate diets. The article first appeared in the SA papers, and this is the longer, unedited version.

After the recent advice to eat the seed... Think again!

No, You Shouldn’t Start Eating Avocado Seeds Just the internet says to, that doesn’t mean you should.

A short clip about sports supplements for swimming, but is transferrable to most other sporting environments. https://youtu.be/fHG44QZwfnM

What are Supplements?

http://www.thinkingnutrition.com.au/dark-chocolate-next-hot-sports-supplement/

Dark chocolate: the next hot sports supplement? In the search for performance improvements in exercise, researchers are now casting their eye over the growing benefits of dark chocolate on health to see if it can translate into improved athletic performance as well. There has been much scientific (and...

A very good infographic about sports supplements related to strength of research.

Sports supplements for endurance, health and strength graded according to evidence for a benefit. This is one quality infographic summarising a just published paper http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0891584916000307

Some more data looking at the benefits of mixing up sugar types for endurance exercise.

Sugary water better for performance than some sports drinks – study Reserachers say cyclists find exercise easier when they drink ordinary sucrose – or table sugar – rather than only glucose

This is such a simple study, with effective results! Plus its an easy lifestyle pattern to implement.

Drink Water Before Meals to Lose Weight? Drinking about 16 ounces of water 30 minutes before meals can help with weight loss for obese adults, new research suggests.