This is PEDYACAST.

Welcome to Pediacast, a pediatric podcast for parents.

And now, direct from the campus of nationwide children's, here is your host, Dr. Mike.

Hello, everyone, and welcome once again to Pediacast.

It's a pediatric podcast for moms and dads.

This is Dr. Mike coming to you from the campus of

nationwide children's hospital. We're in Columbus, Ohio. It is episode 325 for August 5th, 2015.

We're calling this one Sports Nutrition. When I welcome everyone to the program, so a couple weeks back,

we had a show focused on a variety of baby problems.

And during the introduction of that program, I made no apology for the fact that we were

exclusively catering to parents and caregivers of infants. And in fact, I mentioned that the rest

of you might want to find a different episode to listen to. Of course, I mentioned it'd be great if you

could share the baby show with friends, families, and coworkers, ones who might benefit. But as

for you, if you don't have a baby at home or take care of babies in one capacity or another,

then that particular episode might not really be one you want to invest your time with.

Well, today, what comes around goes around because this program has nothing to do with babies.

And in fact, if your only child is an infant or you take care of infants and only infants,

then it may be your turn to skip an episode.

But we sure would like for you to share it with folks you know

who have or care for older kids, and particularly if those older kids are student athletes,

because today we're going to cover sports nutrition. And this is a great time of the year

to cover this topic as summer conditioning and tryouts and practice get underway for the

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