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What is the Best Diet for Runners? Interview with Nutrition Expert Matt Fitzgerald
Anyone who decides to either lose weight or change his or her diet to improve performance is presented with a dizzying array of different options.
The only common thread is that all these diets preach that their method is the only way you can be truly healthy.
From “The Four Hour Body” to “Atkins,” there are diet cults to match seemingly any mood and personality type. Everywhere we turn, someone is preaching the “one true way” to eat for maximum health.
Paleo Diet advocates tell us that all foods less than twelve thousand years old are the enemy. Low-carb gurus demonize carbs, and then there are the low-fat prophets. But they agree on one thing: there is only one true way to eat for maximum health.
Matt Fitzgerald is a sports nutritionist and the author of the best-selling book Racing Weight. In his new book, Diet Cults: The Surprising Fallacy at the Core of Nutrition Fads and a Guide to Healthy Eating for the Rest of Us, Matt exposes the irrationality, half-truths, and downright impossibility of a “single right way” to eat and reveals how to develop rational, healthy eating habits.
A few of the topics we discussed included:
This is an awesome interview if you have questions about developing the right diet for you. Matt’s book was released Monday, May 5th and I highly recommend it. Definitely one of the most balanced and informational reads about nutrition I’ve had this year.
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What is the Best Diet for Runners? Interview with Nutrition Expert Matt Fitzgerald
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