Elyse Huskey Nutrition

06/30/2025

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06/30/2025

Sometimes the best way to elucidate a concept is to compare and contrast two ends of a spectrum. Here we will use the examples of an elite cyclist and a type 2 diabetic to highlight the concept of metabolic flexibility and its importance for your health and fitness.

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Sometimes the best way to elucidate a concept is to compare and contrast two ends of a spectrum.

05/14/2025

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05/14/2025

This athlete’s strategy of fueling-up for a long run with a very simple carbohydrate is well intended, but there may be some physiological responses at play that are resulting in a perception of “bonking”. Simple carbohydrates are readily digested and absorbed into the bloodstream due to their lack of fiber, and they are considered a “quick” source of energy for an athlete. Compare this with complex carbohydrates, such as whole grains, that are fiber-rich, making them slower to digest and absorb. Other nutrients found in mixed meals, including fats and proteins, will also slow down the digestion and absorption of carbohydrates.

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A Case Study

05/07/2025

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12/10/2024

Everybody eats. Most people eat multiple times a day. If you eat 3 meals each day, that equals 21 meals a week, about 93 meals a month, and 1095 meals a year. And for the athlete, this could be even more!

Unless you have a personal chef, thinking of and putting together meals can become pretty overwhelming. And if you’re the parent of a youth athlete, this means you arethe personal chef, which might feel like the unpaid job that you never signed up for. It’s no wonder many growing athletes end up under-fueled and injured or heavily reliant on processed convenience foods.

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Everybody eats. Most people eat multiple times a day. If you eat 3 meals each day, that equals 21 meals a week, about 93 meals a month, and 1095 meals a year. And for the athlete, this could be even more!

10/18/2024

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10/18/2024

In fact, a healthy diet is more of a theme than a set of rules. This is why dietary patterns, or habits, are more important than individual foods. Most people understand this concept as well: eating a Snickers bar on Halloween is different than eating a Snickers bar every day for breakfast, just like eating an apple once a year at an apple Orchard is different than eating a piece of fruit every day.

So if it’s the patterns, or habits, or routines that matter in a diet, where does “junk food” fit in? Or does it?

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When it comes down to it, most people can spell-out the constituents of a healthy diet: eat lean proteins, colorful vegetables and fruits, whole grains, nuts, seeds and legumes. As author Michael Pollan puts it, “Eat [real] food.

09/20/2024

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09/20/2024

So many of today’s health messages are focused around removing, subtracting, and reducing. It’s all about losing weight, reducing calories, avoiding sugars, and exercising on fumes. Consider drugs like Ozempic that take away our appetites, or diets like Intermittent Fasting that restrict our time to eat. Apparently, when it comes to achieving good health, less is more.

Unfortunately, the “less is more” health strategy has failed and frustrated many people. In an effort to achieve weight loss, many find themselves losing a significant amount of muscle mass, a predictor of poor health outcomes. By trying to limit carbohydrates, people avoid quality fruits, vegetables and grains only to find themselves insatiable for cookies, pastries and chips. And by vigorously exercising with under-fueled muscles, most learn to dread physical activity and build a lifestyle of sedentary behaviors. For all of this taking-away, there appear to be little added benefits.

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So many of today’s health messages are focused around removing, subtracting, and reducing. It’s all about losing weight, reducing calories, avoiding sugars, and exercising on fumes.

09/12/2024

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