Hydration is crucial to how well your body runs (both literally and figuratively). You reach for a cold beverage and find store shelfs packed with electrolyte drinks marketed with promises of ideal hydration. But, which is the best electrolyte drink? Here’s everything you need to know about electrolytes, natural hydration solutions, and the best electrolyte...Read More
Making food choices is hard when you don’t know who to trust. What does science say about diets? Reading the research on weight loss and diets can leave you cross-eyed and unsure what’s the best way to lose weight. Your friends have boasted about how the latest diet craze helped them lose 10 pounds in...Read More
You want to help your clients eat, move, and live better. As a fitness professional, you know nutrition is important for performance and for a healthy body transformation. Personal trainers know best how training impacts your client’s nutrition requirements. But, how do you become a personal trainer that’s qualified to give nutrition advice? Why Nutrition...Read More
Prepared by: Alissa Liska, BSc, C.H.N., AFLCA-RTSL Introduction When it comes to designing a sports nutrition diet, there are many ways of doing so. Depending on the sport, athletes will have a diverse range of energy and nutrient needs to consider. There are countless sources from which they can obtain such energy in the form...Read More
Prepared by: Ashleigh Grange, R.H.N., BA, CNE | AshleighGrange.com Most nutrition pros know that there’s no magic pill for natural weight loss. Counting calories or severely restricting your diet until you reach your target weight? That doesn’t sound like fun—and it’s probably not sustainable. The truth is, this approach to dieting is too time-consuming and...Read More
Prepared by: Meagan Duhamel, R.H.N. | lutzofgreens.com My interest in holistic health was sparked about 15 years ago when a dietician that I was sent to work with gave me a meal plan that included cheese strings. Cheese strings—those stringy, processed yellow sticks. That’s what I was supposed to eat if I wanted to be...Read More
Prepared by: Allison Tannis, MSc, R.H.N. | allisontannis.com Are you going about weight loss the wrong way? Ditch the diet! There is no one size fits all solution. Is it possible you’ve been thinking about this all wrong? Dieting doesn’t equal sustainable weight loss. In fact, most people would say dieting results in frustration. Successful,...Read More
