Tips from Nancy Clark
Don't Arrive Too Hungry
One prerequisite to successful nighttime dining is to eat a hearty lunch or an afternoon snack. This prevents you from attacking the refrigerator the minute you walk in the house in the evening.
Nancy Clark's Sports Nutrition Guidebook ( Human Kinetics, 1997), p. 88
A Game Plan for Good Nutrition
Three basic keys to healthful eating:When choosing your meals and snacks, try to base your nutrition game plan on these three important keys to healthful living:
1. Variety. There is no one magic food. Each food offers special nutrients. For example, oranges provide vitamin C and carbohydrates but not iron or protein. Beef offers iron and protein but not vitamin C or carbohydrates. You'll thrive best by eating a variety of foods. I often counsel athletes who severely restrict their diets. One runner, for example, limited herself to plain yogurt, rice cakes, and oranges. Besides lacking variety, her diet lacked iron, zinc, vitamins A, E, K, and much more.
2. Moderation. Even soda pop and chips, in moderation, can fit into a well-balanced diet. Simply balance out refined sugars and fats with nutrient-wise choices at your next meal. For example, compensate for a greasy sausage and biscuit at breakfast by selecting a low-fat turkey sandwich for lunch. Although no one food is a junk food, too many nutrient poor selections can accumulate into a junk food diet.
3. Wholesomeness. Choose natural or lightly processed foods as often as possible. For instance, choose whole wheat rather than white bread, apples rather than apple juice, baked potatoes rather than potato chips. Natural foods usually have more nutritional value and fewer questionable additives.
Don't Arrive Too Hungry
One prerequisite to successful nighttime dining is to eat a hearty lunch or an afternoon snack. This prevents you from attacking the refrigerator the minute you walk in the house in the evening.
Nancy Clark's Sports Nutrition Guidebook ( Human Kinetics, 1997), p. 88
A Game Plan for Good Nutrition
Three basic keys to healthful eating:When choosing your meals and snacks, try to base your nutrition game plan on these three important keys to healthful living:
1. Variety. There is no one magic food. Each food offers special nutrients. For example, oranges provide vitamin C and carbohydrates but not iron or protein. Beef offers iron and protein but not vitamin C or carbohydrates. You'll thrive best by eating a variety of foods. I often counsel athletes who severely restrict their diets. One runner, for example, limited herself to plain yogurt, rice cakes, and oranges. Besides lacking variety, her diet lacked iron, zinc, vitamins A, E, K, and much more.
2. Moderation. Even soda pop and chips, in moderation, can fit into a well-balanced diet. Simply balance out refined sugars and fats with nutrient-wise choices at your next meal. For example, compensate for a greasy sausage and biscuit at breakfast by selecting a low-fat turkey sandwich for lunch. Although no one food is a junk food, too many nutrient poor selections can accumulate into a junk food diet.
3. Wholesomeness. Choose natural or lightly processed foods as often as possible. For instance, choose whole wheat rather than white bread, apples rather than apple juice, baked potatoes rather than potato chips. Natural foods usually have more nutritional value and fewer questionable additives.
