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Stop the labels: food is not good or bad

Food: can we label it as good or bad?  In my practice, I hear a lot of expressions of foods being good or bad, and often a lot of guilt attached to those statements as well. And, I’ll be honest, I’ve fallen prey to some of those same thoughts at various times in my life too. But is it true? Food is more than just food Are foods actually black and white? In some respects, that’s not an easy question to answer. For sure, there are foods that are definitely going to be better for overall health, including whole foods, high fibre foods, more plant-based foods, foods from the ground, etc., etc.. But, as a person with type-1 diabetes, who grew up in the 1980s when diabetes management was all about food restriction… and as a person with T1D who has personally gone through the detriments of diet culture… and […]

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Back to the T1D sport nutrition strategy drawing board

Cycling season has started and, unfortunately for me, my body is not a robot, and has decided last year’s T1D cycling nutrition strategy is no longer optimal. Here’s to working. through new strategies!

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Connected in Motion: a weekend of T1D community

Debriefing a weekend of T1D community with Connected in Motion.

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The first job with sport nutrition and T1D

My first professional speaking gig on sport nutrition with type-1 diabetes is booked and I am super stoked!!!

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Covid-19 calls for running ‘fasted’ with T1D

With Covid-19 calling on me to do more fasted runs than I’m used to, I looked to the science for the T1D specific recommendations and then weighed those with reality.

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