General Nutrition

February is the month of love. Almost always, it’s to those that are closest and dear to us. At Eat 2 Perform, we’re challenging you...

Incorporating grains into your daily routine is important as they have many health benefits.  Besides being loaded with vitamins and fiber, they have been linked...

If you have been keeping up with the latest nutrition science and research, the macronutrient, protein has been the star of the show lately. What we...

A tea which claims to cure ailments such as asthma, acne, cancer and high blood pressure to name a few. Seems too good to be...

On a daily basis, I see those words associated with food, eating and meal choices. How did we get here as a society? What are we cheating on? How has food become dirty and bad?
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What comes to mind for you when you hear the word "balance"? For us, we think of our Eat 2 Perform clients who lead busy, busy, busy lives. They're spinning multiple white plates in the air, trying to keep them all whirring so that none of them clatter to the ground. One plate might represent their nutrition, one plate represents daily exercise, one plate for seven to eight hours of sleep per night. They're trying their best to keep their lives- and their health- in balance.

At every client's first appointment, I do an initial assessment. In the initial assessment, we discuss medical and diet history, behaviors, physical activity and goals. When discussing client's eating behaviors, more often than not I hear that clients do not eat with intent.
People are under the impression that I only do Sports Nutrition because of the name, Eat 2 Perform. I choose the name because eating has so much to do with your everyday performance. Whether you are a competitive athlete, an executive, a full time Mom or an HR director. You need to maintain your energy throughout the day to be productive and do all the things you love in life.
This past weekend between soccer games I took some of the boys on my older son’s soccer team to see Life of Pi. I heard the book was slow and not very engaging so I was hesitant to see the film. The movie was nothing like that. It was deep with many layers. One of the things that I took away from the movie was how little we really need in life. Whether its material or psychological junk we clutter our lives with, it’s there. When Pi was stranded on the Pacific Ocean stripped of everything he had he became introspective. He really was able to go within and start looking at himself and his thoughts.