How do we support our emerging athletes as they juggle the demands of school and sports?

Join Mikala as she talks about sustaining snacks and meals that maximise nutrition with Julie Meek, performance specialist and Sports Dietitian.

Julie shares her top tips when it comes to juggling a full training schedule and ensuring kids find time to fuel up on the food needed for healthy growth and development. Hear ways to boost iron, pack in protein and the importance of considering calcium for growing skeletons.

Topics covered in today’s episode:

• How to fuel kids with busy sports schedules
• When to eat and how to tackle tricky timing when juggling late games or early starts
• Which nutrients are needed most
• The importance of allowing children to regulate their appetite and develop a positive relationship with food
• Being mindful of marketing around foods that are high in protein
• When to reach for a sports drink

Episode links:

• Julie Meek website
• Eat for Health website
• Better Health Channel – understanding lactose intolerance
• Transcript

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Join us as we yarn about bush foods with Dale Tilbrook, a proud Wardandi Bibbulmun woman. Mikala and Dale explore bush foods and discuss some common examples, where you can find them and how to weave them into your weekly cooking.

Topics covered in today’s episode:

• What are bush foods
• Where you can find bush foods
• The rules of foraging
• The importance of supporting Aboriginal owned companies

Links

• Dale Tilbrook
• Maalinup aboriginal gallery
• Transcript

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Engineered to eat: A chat about ultra processed food

We know food processing can be beneficial for safety, nutrition, and convenience, but can it go too far? In this episode, Mikala and Nicole explore food processing in detail and how different foods are categorised. They discuss how industrial methods used to make ultra processed foods can contribute to poor health and highlight the importance of understanding how to read food labels.

Topics covered in today’s episode:

• What is food processing, and how are foods categorised?
• Easy ways to recognise an ultra processed food.
• The emerging concerns around regular consumption of ultra processed foods.
• Ways to limit consumption of ultra processed foods in the home.

Episode links:

• Nova classification system
• Label reading episode
• Transcript

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