Synopses & Reviews
Recent studies show that food intolerances are almost 5 times more prevalant today than in the 1950s; as many as 1 in 6 Americans is estimated to have a food sensitivity. Exercise can make food intolerances even worse for endurance athletes. Food cravings, GI distress, headaches, brain fog--these common reactions can be more than symptoms of a tough workout. They could be caused by the foods you eat.
In The Athlete's Fix, registered dietitian Pip Taylor will help you find your problem foods--and the foods that make you feel and perform your best. The Athlete's Fix offers a sensible, 3-step program to identify food intolerances, navigate popular special diets, and develop your own customized clean diet that will support better health and performance.
Endurance sports stress the body, often worsening mild food sensitivities and causing symptoms like GI distress, food cravings, and headaches. Many athletes aggressively eliminate foods as a one-size-fits-all solution. These restrictive diets sometimes bring short-term improvements, but they are difficult to maintain and often leave athletes undernourished and underperforming.
The Athlete's Fix offers a smarter, fine-tuned approach. Taylor will show how you will benefit most from a diet full of a wide variety of foods. You'll improve your daily diet, cut out common irritants, then add back foods until you feel great enjoying your own personalized clean diet. To help with this transition, The Athlete's Fix offers 50 recipes using easily tolerated foods that support a base functional diet.
The Athlete's Fix examines hot issues for athletes like:
- Celiac disease, gluten intolerance, gluten-free and grain-free diets
- Lactose intolerance
- FODMAPs and specific carbohydrate intolerances, including fructose
- Reactions to food chemicals such as salicylates, amines, and glutamates
- Inflammatory foods
- Food sensitivity testing and elimination diets
- Popular special diet programs like Paleo, Whole30, Dukan, Mediterranean, and Dash
- Vegetarian, vegan, and raw food diets
The Athlete's Fix will help you isolate and identify your food intolerances while enabling you to eat the widest possible variety of healthy foods. Feel better-perform better--with The Athlete's Fix.
Synopsis
1. First book on special diets for athletes
2. Guides athletes through confusing information on paleo, gluten-free, and similar trendy diets
3. Target market includes 60 million American endurance athletes
Synopsis
Endurance sports put the body under great strain, often exacerbating the body's inability to effectively process specific foods. For optimal performance, the athlete's diet has to omit the foods that cause trouble while maximizing the variety of foods that the body does manage well.
There are countless books about food intolerances and special diets, but this book is explicitly for athletes. Pip's approach is unique because she doesn't put every athlete on a universally restricted diet. For every athlete, the best diet will include the greatest variety of foods and nutrients. So Pip educates the athlete on the changes that benefit every diet and from there she helps the reader eliminate and reintroduce foods. Upon finishing this book, every reader should have a personalized diet that will help them feel better both in competition and in life.
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The Athlete's Fix, sports nutritionist and pro triathlete Pip Taylor lays out a sensible step-by-step program to find the foods that make athletes feel and perform their best. She helps athletes navigate confusing and conflicting information about food allergies like celiac disease and lactose intolerance and also popular elimination diets like Paleo, Dukan, Dash, and detox.
Endurance sports stress the body, often worsening mild food intolerances and making food allergies more severe. To improve their symptoms, athletes often simply eliminate entire food groups, a blunt way out that doesn't address the root problem and can leave athletes undernourished and hurt performance.
The Athlete's Fix offers a smarter, fine-tuned approach. Taylor shows how athletes seeking high performance will benefit most from a diet full of a wide variety of foods. Her step-by-step program helps athletes isolate and identify their specific trouble foods while enabling them to eat a healthy variety of high-performance foods.
The Athlete's Fix examines hot issues for athletes like:
- Celiac disease, gluten intolerance, and gluten free diets
- Lactose intolerance
- Elimination and detox diets
- Popular diet programs like Paleo, Dukan, Mediterranean, and Dash
- Vegetarian, vegan, and raw food diets
The Athlete's Fix program will lead athletes to a richer diet that is full of flavor, one that helps them feel and perform their best.
Synopsis
IntroductionThe Problem of Food Intolerance
Where the Problem Starts
Understanding Food Intolerances
Athletes and Food Intolerance
Commit to Finding Your Best Foods
Fixing Your Diet
Avoid the Unhealthy Foods that Cause Inflammation
Get Your Fill of Healthy Foods
Vegan and Vegetarian Diets
Target Common Intolerances and Sensitivities
Other Types of Intolerance
Testing for Food Intolerance
Identifying Your Intolerances
Getting Started
Step 1: Adopt a Base Functional Diet
Step 2: Identify Any Other Problematic Foods
Step 3: Reintroduce Foods
Step 4: Repeat As Needed
Eating for Performance
Carbohydrates Are Vital to Performance
Fat Plays a Crucial Role
Why Athletes Need Protein
Multivitamins and Supplements
A Smart Approach to Sports Foods
Eating Is Not a Numbers Game
Eating Well for Life
How to Save Money on Healthy Foods
Time-saving Tips to Get You Into the Kitchen
How to Stay the Course on the Base Functional Diet and Beyond
Other Tips for a Lifestyle of Healthy Eating
Recipes for the Base Functional Diet
Breakfast (13 recipes)
Lunch and Dinner (16 recipes)
Sweets and Treats (7 recipes)
Sports Foods (6 recipes)
Snacks (4 recipes)
*All 46 Base Functional Diet recipes are free of gluten, grains (except rice), soy, legumes, dairy, sugar, additives, and preservatives.
Recipe Index
Food Diary Template
Notes
Index
About the Author
About the Author
REPAIR YOUR GUT, REDUCE INFLAMMATION and GET YOUR DIET RIGHTFood cravings, gut issues, stubborn body fat, chronic headaches, and brain fog are problems athletes face every day. While you might be inclined to push through pain and discomfort, you could be overlooking symptoms of food intolerance.
Popular diets that eliminate specific food groups may yield short-term results, but for most people they are overly restrictive and fail to identify the real food culprits. In The Athlete's Fix, sports nutritionist and pro triathlete Pip Taylor helps you find the foods that make you feel and perform your best, with a sensible, step-by-step program.
To get your nutrition on track, Taylor maps out a base functional diet that will help you identify the specific foods and ingredients that could be causing the following problems:
- Gluten intolerance
- Lactose intolerance
- Reduced tolerance for digesting specific carbohydrates, including fructose
- Reactions to food chemicals such as salicylates, amines, and glutamates
- Inflammation caused by poor nutrition and foods that are not well tolerated
Once you're free of symptoms, you can start adding safe foods back into the mix until you arrive at a personalized, high-performance diet that allows you to enjoy as many healthy foods as possible. And performance won't suffer while you figure it out--you'll find guidelines on how to get enough fuel for training and recovery, and delicious recipes to ease the transition.
The Athlete's Fix is a program designed specif¬ically for athletes like you. Pip Taylor shows you the way to your best diet, one that is full of flavor and designed for better performance and health.
FEATURING 50 RECIPES TO SUPPORT A BASE FUNCTIONAL DIET
PIP TAYLOR is an accredited sports dietitian and a professional triathlete. Highlights of her racing career include wins and podiums at ITU World Cup races, ITU World Team Championships, and Ironman 70.3® events.