SNR #133: Emma McCrudden - Vegan & Vegetarian Athlete Nutritional Programming

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Danny Lennon

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🗓️ 2 August 2016

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Episode 133: Performance dietitian Emma McCrudden of the University of British Columbia discusses important considerations for implementing evidence-based nutrition programs with vegan or vegetarian athletes.

Emma trained as a Dietitian in the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland. She completed her Masters at Loughborough University in Sports Nutrition and Exercise Physiology. She worked as an applied Performance Dietitian for the English Institute of Sport (EIS) with a variety of sports including, beach volleyball, England Netball and Bob Skeleton.

In 2010 she split her time between England, continuing her work with the EIS and Dublin, working as the lead dietitian for Leinster Rugby. In 2013, she joined the Canadian Sport Institute Pacific in Vancouver and has worked with swimmers, Women’s Soccer team, the Vancouver Whitecaps Youth teams, BMX, the Canucks and winter sports in Whistler.

Her work focuses on the specialist application of the science of nutrition to performance enhancement in sport aiming to maximise training adaptation and performance, optimize body composition while minimizing risk of injury, over-training, illness and burnout. She is currently based at the University of British Columbia, where she splits her time between lecturing and being a practitioner with the elite athletes on campus.

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0:00.0	The degree to which it affects the athlete performance-wise depends on the sport that they're in, obviously.
0:16.0	So if you take a javelin throw, for example, they might see the effects of iron deficiency and anemia
0:22.5	through health or through illness or through fatigue, but it might not directly impact their
0:28.2	acute performance versus, you know, some of the track and field athletes that we have,
0:33.4	the 10K runners who will absolutely feel the effects of that fatigue on their performance.
0:39.3	So it's definitely something that we screen for and in UBC we've just started to screen all of our athletic population once a year. Hello and welcome to episode 133 of Sigma Nutrition Radio. I am your host, Danny Lennon, and today I'm delighted
1:15.2	to have Emma McCrudden on the show to discuss vegan and vegetarian athlete nutritional programming.
1:23.5	And this is a really important topic because it hasn't really been addressed full on on the show previously, at least in any great detail or any particular focus.
1:34.7	And especially some of the considerations that crop up not only dealing with general health considerations for people who are perhaps switching to this dietary approach, but then also
1:45.2	how that may play a particular role for athletes and how that might show itself in athletic
1:51.5	performance. I'm really excited to have Emma on because her background is not only a blend of
1:59.6	high-level qualifications and working within academic institutions,
2:03.9	but she's just worked as a practitioner in elite-level sport in some of the absolute best places in the world.
2:11.9	Emma was previously working with Leinster Rugby when she was back in Ireland having already completed her
2:19.4	master's at Loughborough University in the UK and after that she also worked as a performance
2:26.3	dietitian with the English Institute of Sport where she was working with all sorts of
2:31.1	elite level athletes and Olympic athletes as well. And a bit of time after that,
2:37.6	she ended up moving to Canada, where she worked with the Canadian Sports Institute in Vancouver
2:45.0	and is now currently at the University of British Columbia, where she has split her time between lecturing in
2:53.2	kinesiology and then on the other side being a practitioner and working every day with the elite
3:00.0	athletes that are on campus there. So she has a really broad extensive range of not only having
3:06.3	background in dietetics and having done her
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