Cycle and Style

Just in time for the Holidays, sports nutritionist Nancy Clark has delicious ideas for healthy homemade food gifts from your kitchen! Who doesn’t like a yummy gift of homemade food! Whether you give a certificate for breakfast in bed or fill a tin with trail mix, food gifts are welcome treats for hungry athletes. These [...]

We live in an age of information overload. Between emails, blogs, tweets, and newsletters, I feel bombarded by the latest nutrition news. But that’s not the case for everyone. Many runners ask me where they can find reliable sports nutrition information. The following list offers several resources to help you find answers to your questions [...]

“If I crave a candy bar, should I eat a candy bar?” That’s the title of one of my most popular blog posts! Clearly, food cravings and sugar addictions are a source of concern and frustration for many athletes who believe that eating one chocolate bar (or whatever food they crave) will lead to eating [...]

By Nancy Clark  “I think about food all the time. I finish one meal and start thinking about the next.” “I don’t keep cookies in the house; I end up eating them all.” “I’m afraid if I start eating, I won’t be able to stop…”      If any of those thoughts sound familiar, you are [...]

by Nancy Clark, MS RD CSSD Question: How many food decisions does the average person make in a day: 25, 80, 100, 200? According to Bonnie Taub-Dix RD, weight loss specialist in New York and author of Read it Before You Eat It: How to Decode Food Labels and Make the Healthiest Choice Every Time, [...]

The Latest Studies/Information on Weight Loss • Most dieters believe the less they eat, the more body fat they will lose. Not always true. A study compared obese people who were given 1,200-calorie (for women) and 1,600-calorie (for men) reducing diets. A comparison group was given diets with  about 1,750 calories (women) and 2,100 calories [...]