Sports Nutrition Tips for Young Athletes

The Nutrition Science Podcast

Dr. Adrian Chavez

Science, Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

4.8 • 633 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Today on the show I have Jessica Issacs who is a Registered Dietitian and Sports Nutrition Specialist and we are going to talk about nutrition tips for parents of children who are active in sports. On today's episode we cover: Nutrition priorities for young athletesSome of th most common mistakes that many young athletes makeSports drinks and whether or not they're necessary Hydrations tips for young athletes Supplement considerationsand more.. Make sure to tune in to learn m...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Nutrition Science Podcast, where we help you cut through the noise and make informed science-based decisions about nutrition and your health.
0:11.1	Welcome back to the show.
0:12.4	Today I have Jessica Isaacs, who is a sports nutritionist on the show.
0:16.3	Today we're going to be talking about nutrition for young athletes.
0:20.1	I get this question a lot. People ask about
0:22.2	what to feed their kids who are getting into sports. I know many kids are playing multiple sports,
0:27.2	doing tournaments, doing multiple games in a day, things like that. And it's really important to
0:32.1	make sure that they're fueled properly. So that's what we're going to be talking about today.
0:36.0	Thanks for coming on to the show, Jessica. Absolutely. Thanks for having me. Yeah. So let's go ahead and start by just getting a little
0:42.8	bit of a background about what you do and what got you into sports nutrition. Yeah. So I'm a
0:49.9	sports dietitian. I've worked with collegiate teams. I've worked with UCLA, men's and women's
0:54.9	basketball team. I worked at the pro level with LA Clippers for a couple seasons. And then I also
1:00.5	have a private practice where I work with athletes of all age levels and skill levels. But what got
1:05.3	me into this, I was never an athlete growing up. But I did struggle with nutrition. I struggled with
1:10.5	body image issues. It was something
1:12.2	that kind of plagued me all throughout my high school years into my early adult years. And then as I
1:17.1	started to kind of figure out nutrition and getting my own health figured out, I got really excited
1:22.3	about seeing when I coupled nutrition and proper eating fundamentals with performance and fitness just saw
1:29.0	both my health improve and saw my fitness improve. I got really excited about just coupling the two
1:34.0	together. And so I was fascinated with, okay, how do I take this to those higher level athletes?
1:39.7	You know, I really wanted to help people unlock their performance potential with proper nutrition, while also
1:46.1	kind of navigating away from a lot of the diet culture and misinformation that's online. So I work
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