Common diet mistakes: Getting healthy "Not-to-do's"

Is Your Child’s Backpack Making the Grade?
While a backpack is still one of the best ways to tote homework and other life’s necessities, overloaded or improperly worn backpack gets a failing grade, according to the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA).
Improper backpack use can cause injury, especially to children with young, growing muscles and joints. A [...]

In the gym, on the hills, with the weights, in the pool, on the stairs, beating down a local path, lying on the floor doing 100 crunches or creating art sweat on your yoga mat. It doesn’t matter its shape or form – all this hard work you have been doing is incredible and if [...]

People frequently seek medical care because of a painful tendon, and often leave the appointment with the diagnosis “tendonitis.”   A tendon is a tough connective tissue structure, attaching a muscle to a bone, that can become inflamed with an abrupt change in activity.  The instructions accompanying the diagnosis of tendonitis are rest, ice, oral anti-inflammatory [...]

Distance running in the United States includes a steady increase in the number of people choosing to participate in long distance running events.  These events range from local 5 kilometer fun runs to competitive marathons.  Running injuries commonly result from the repetitive stress and strain of training over a period of time. The number of [...]

Many clients ask me what they need to do to stay in shape when they are either injured, in off season, or taking on a slower training schedule.  The first thing, especially when injured, is to find a way to still stay active.  This may mean doing something you aren’t used to such as swimming, [...]

Individual nutritional needs vary throughout the different stages of our lives. Childhood and adolescence, for example, is a time of significant growth and development where proper nutrition can have a profound impact on long-term health. Special considerations should be made specifically for young athletes to ensure their nutritional needs are met.
Young athletes have high daily [...]

Here at AthleticFoodie we’ve worked hard to create a resource that can truly help you live a better life through better nutrition. Brainstorming new ways for us to convey useful information to y’all is at the top of our list on a daily basis. Recently AthleticFoodie has teamed up with swimwear retailing giant SwimOutlet, to [...]