UT hires dietician; Serves Mac & Cheese at Freshman dinner

Is that it undermines anything else you say about eating right. After all, if the team feeds me this, it must be OK, right?

Or, are we still in the era of giving salt tablets during games? Because sweat is salty, you must need to replace the salt, right? Wrong, wrong, wrong.

Mack: Mad Dog, I need your help. Our new dietician hasn’t started here yet and coach Wylie is on vacation. I need you to come up with a menu for the Freshman dinner. A balanced, nutritious meal. Can you do that for me, Mad Dog?

Mad Dog: Sure can coach. Steak and Mac and cheese. You got meat, dairy, and grain. That’s all three of the food groups in the food triangle, right there.

but I’m very curious to follow this hire and see if it was primarily symbolic as a means of matching what other programs are doing, or if it’s an honest attempt at improving performance.

And maybe it was sirloin instead of ribeye. Whole wheat pasta. Makes the world of difference.

Mac and Cheese

When the Cowboys were on “hard knocks” and it showed them having chicken for almost every meal….I get that chicken is a lean protein, but because I (and my friends) have had some success with the blood-type diet, I just can’t believe in a one type of food works for everyone approach….in fact, according to that diet, chicken is an avoid for a large percentage of the population (B blood type) because of its effect on slowing the metabolism and its effect on the blood.

That the dietician’s job would be as much about individual plans as overseeing the banquet catering. I’m not saying that mac and cheese is something she shouldn’t try to limit, but I was imagining she’d be telling Edmond how to keep the weight lean, and Espinosa how to add productive mass instead of slow bulk. It is true that we want the whole team making good choices, but let’s maybe give her a pass on this one dinner.

Jonathan Gray’s Gatorate cache was pretty funny. If I recall the same photo, Applewhite is in the background with a “you know, we have water here” look on his face.

diet alone is no preventative against a debilitating virus.

I eat on the low/slow carb diet, which isnt too dissimilar, I can tell you it can be difficult to stick with unless you are doing all your own cooking.
There is no readily available fast food option out there and it can be a little bit more expensive to stick to. How do we expect broke student athletes to pay for grass fed organic beef and fresh organic vegetables? Is the school going to serve them three square/paleo meals a day? Is that even allowed?

as well as, individuals with certain medical conditions, such as diabetes and high cholesterol. It works to lower body fat and maintain energy levels. The beauty of The Zone is that it does not leave one feeling deprived. It does deal with ‘fast burn’ carbs as opposed to ‘slow burn’ carbs.

The guys on the team, however, are working out hard, and they don’t have to follow any eating plan the way one of us would. I don’t want them looking like a malnourished model, do you?

I always figured BC had better bullshit detectors than this…

The whole thing is just stretching the word “processed”. White bread is “bad” for you because the process breaks down and removes the rough fiber and makes it easier to digest, which means more calories. If you just eat less of it and replace the fiber with veggies or something you’re ok. The problem with processed foods is not that it doesn’t go straight from nature into your gut, it’s that they often use too much salt and sugar. The problem is people have easy access to very calorie-dense and extremely nutritious foods which they take way too much of because it defeats our body’s mechanism for preventing overeating.

Bottom line: If they get the right amount of fiber, calories, and protein it doesn’t matter where they get it from. If they eat a 1000 calorie steak and mac and cheese dinner with a salad, they can go out and whip your favorite organic paleo fed team’s ass all day for half the price. Eat your caveman food all you want but give me none of the superiority complex.

how much more you know about nutrition than your average bear. I still don’t see the problem with mac ‘n cheese, depending on what’s in it.

We, as a collective of humans attempting through scientific and non-scientific means to understand just what in the hell is going on inside of our bodies and how they work, are still pretty damn far off from really understanding them. The fields of Biochemistry and Biology are still making discoveries that undermine conventional wisdom and in turn become the new conventional wisdom only to later be dethroned. This, to me, is what makes biology so interesting: we don’t know shit. The more we discover, the more we realize how much we actually understand. This goes double for neuroscience, which is why I chose it for my field of study. (Of course, now I’m in business related to neuroscience and not doing any research, but I got’s to get that cash money.)

Nowhere is our collective ignorance regarding the inner workings of our bodies more apparent than in nutrition, as can be seen from the vicissitudes of what we consider to be healthy or unhealthy. Eggs are bad, no eggs are good- just not the yolks. Wait, the yolks are where the lecithin is, which we need. You shouldn’t eat any fat, but actually you should eat fat, just not trans-fat or saturated fat. Fat’s fine, but carbs are the devil. I actually had a guy who had just read the Atkins diet when it was the latest revelation in dieting tell me that if we’d just stop eating carbs, 80% of disease that afflicts humans would go away. Amazing.

This is why I view any new diet with much skepticism. Not to mention, they’re easy get rich quick schemes and are often based on shaky science. The only nutritional wisdom that has never been disproved is this: if you want to lose weight, that is go into a catabolic state, you need to consume less energy than you burn; if you want to gain weight, you need to be in an anabolic state so you better eat more than you burn. All diets are just a strategy to reach the desired metabolic state.

Fall football practice can’t come soon enough.

And how in God’s name does a thread on freshman football players eating macaroni and cheese get more comments than any other topic on this site?