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Trail Runner Nation

EP 707: Body Image, Fueling, and the Diet Lies Athletes Believe

Trail Runner Nation

Trail Runner Nation

Ultramarathon, Fitness, Running, Community, Health & Fitness, Trail, Endurance, Trails, Sports

4.51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Are the diet myths you’ve believed holding you back from peak performance, or could eating more actually be the key to running stronger and feeling better?

In this episode, Zoë Rom and Kylee Van Horn, creators of the podcast Your Diet Sucks, explore the critical role of nutrition in endurance sports. They discuss common diet myths, the importance of individualized nutrition, and the impact of social media on body image and eating disorders among athletes. The conversation highlights why fueling for performance should take priority over aesthetics, the pitfalls of restrictive dieting, and the value of listening to your body. They also touch on food justice, the role of organic food, and the evolving science of recovery nutrition. With their journalism and sports nutrition background, they’re on a mission to simplify nutrition, promote a healthier relationship with food, and debunk the noise surrounding endurance athletes’ diets.

Zoë Rom is an award-winning journalist and ultra-runner with a master’s in environmental journalism and author of Becoming a Sustainable Runner. Kylee Van Horn is a registered dietitian and founder of Fly Nutrition, specializing in helping athletes fuel for performance and challenge harmful dietary norms in sports. Her new book, Practical Fueling for Endurance Athletes: Your Nutrition Guide for Optimal Performance is available for preorder and release on March 3, 2025. Both are amazing trail runners who talk our language.

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I grew up on a working farm. It was not an organic farm. We used pesticides and thankfully

0:08.0

I'm still alive and my mutations are minimal and mostly my fault. If you're buying an

0:12.6

Oreo and just because it says organic like it's the same nutrients, it's still a fucking

0:16.6

Oreo. Don't, don't, don't shumer yourself. You're eating an Oreo. Welcome to the trailhead of trail runner nation.

0:34.1

We go on virtual trail runs with experts that we can keep up with virtually that are going

0:40.0

to help us learn how to be better runners, healthier and happier trail runners.

0:45.5

And maybe, maybe happier and better human beings.

0:49.6

And that's what we're gonna do today, Scott.

0:51.9

We're gonna talk about not what's on the trail,

0:55.3

but what's on our plate to become better runners.

0:58.3

And maybe even better people.

1:02.1

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You can see gifts under $60, gifts for cold weather, gifts for trail runners gifts for roadrunners and gifts

1:26.8

for recovery days. Any of the marino gear I just love that marino it's one of my favorite and the

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1:39.5

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1:47.1

Three drop-in integrated pockets in the waistband.

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