1679: Common Running Nutrition Mistakes by Renee McGregor with Food Fitness Flora on Nutritional Science

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🗓️ 31 March 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Renee McGregory of Food Fitness Flora talks about common nutrition mistakes made by runners Episode 1679: Common Running Nutrition Mistakes by Renee McGregor with Food Fitness Flora on Nutritional Science Flora Beverley is a fitness model, blogger and social media consultant based in London. She is passionate about healthy living and loves to take part in physical challenges throughout the year, recently completing the Tokyo marathon, two boxing fights and part of ‘the world’s toughest island race’, TRIBE Run For Love. When not in the outdoors, Flora creates food, fitness and sustainability content for her social media, and writes for various publications. Alongside her love of food and fitness, Flora speaks passionately about sustainability and mental health, using her platform to disseminate information and myth bust, encouraging others to speak up too. Using her background in Biology, she aims to back up everything she writes with scientific evidence and reduce the amount of misinformation online. The original post is located here: https://foodfitnessflora.blog/2020/06/02/common-running-nutrition-mistakes/ Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Interested in advertising on the show? Visit https://www.advertisecast.com/OptimalHealthDailyDietNutritionFitness Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Health Daily, episode 1679.
0:03.5	Common Running Nutrition Mistakes by Renee McGregor with food-fitnessflora.org.
0:09.3	And I'm Dr. Neil Malick.
0:10.9	Hey there, welcome back to Optimal Health Daily, where I read to you from some of the most
0:14.4	popular health and fitness blogs out there, with permission from the websites, of course,
0:19.0	and always with a bit of my commentary at the end.
0:22.0	All right, and with that, let's get right to today's post as we optimize your life.
0:30.8	Common Running Nutrition Mistakes by Renee McGregor with foodfitnessflora.com.
0:37.6	Everyone has an opinion about nutrition. Why shouldn't they? After all, we all need food to
0:43.1	survive. However, there is a difference between anecdotal nutrition advice and actual nutrition
0:49.6	science. On social media, we're exposed to the former a lot more than the latter. What works for one
0:56.6	person in a sample of n equals one may not work for another. Just the other day, I was on a group
1:03.3	chat where someone very boldly stated that their new vegan regime was the cause of their
1:08.8	newly found energy and improved recovery. However, this was
1:12.3	based on subjective information, which they had collected over a few weeks. Is this science? No,
1:19.4	this is one individual's personal experience with no information of what her diet had been like
1:25.6	previously, or even if any other aspect of her life had also
1:29.7	changed, which may have resulted in how she was feeling. Presently, there is no evidence in the
1:34.7	literature to suggest that that plant-based diet improved her performance. Such anecdotal evidence
1:40.7	could cause more harm than good. Nutritional science, and particularly sports-specific
1:47.0	nutrition, is actually quite complex. While many simply look at the impact of one particular nutrient,
1:53.6	or process on performance, this completely ignores the fact that the human body is run on an
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