Below is a selection of further information and links to a variety of nutrition topics.
LOW Energy Availability (LEA) & REDs
These conditions can occur in any athlete and in any body type - you do not need to be “elite” or in a small body to encounter signs and symptoms of inadequate energy for your body or activity level.
Check out your own Personal Energy Availability with this neat online questionnaire designed by an expert (and one of our colleagues) in this area, Dr Nicky Keay, Sports Endocrinologist and medical doctor.
High Performance Sport NZ - Low Energy Availability
High Performance Sport NZ - REDs
Project RED-S.COM - Nothing beats sustainable performance
Health 4 Performance - Optimising health for performance. Raising awareness of Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S) for all those involved with exercise training, sport and dance.
Relative energy deficiency in dance (RED-D) - Specific information for dancers and REDs
Female Athlete Podcast - RED-S episode with Dr Kate Ackerman (world leading expert in REDs)
Understanding Your Menstrual Cycle - What’s normal FREE DOWNLOAD
No Period. Now What? A guide to regaining your cycles and improving your fertility. Nicola J. Rinaldi, PhD, 2019
EATING DISORDERs & BODY IMAGE:
Eating Disorders Australia New Zealand - EDANZ is run by parents, caregivers, and people who have fully recovered from eating disorders.
CREDS - Central Regional Eating Disorder Services
NEDC - Australia’s National Eating Disorder Collaboration, with many resources and information
NEDC - What is Body Image? (Free download)
Butterfly Foundation - Support for Eating Disorders and Body Image Issues
Eating Disorders in Males - NEDC
Eating Disorders Information /BOCA Recovery Centre
AIS Disordered Eating in High Performance Sport - links to resources for athletes and coaches
Love Your Body Book - Jessica Saunders
NON-DIET Nutrition & INTUITIVE EATING
There is not a single long-term study that shows that weight-loss dieting is sustainable. Study after study, shows that dieting and food restriction for the purpose of weight loss leads to more weight gain. Yes, weight gain (Rothblum 2018). Worse–the focus and preoccupation on weight leads to body dissatisfaction and weight stigma, which negatively impacts health (O’Hara & Taylor 2018). 95% of diets fail, not because a person didn’t try hard enough or that it wasn’t the right diet; more so, it was always going to fail and that dieting was/is not the right approach to improving your health.
Health At Every Size - The HAES® Principles promote health equity, support ending weight discrimination, and improve access to quality healthcare regardless of size.
Fiona Willer - Health not Diets
Make Peace With Food and Your Body - Evelyn Tribole, Dietitian, Original co-author of Intuitive Eating, 60 minute video
What is Intuitive Eating - Gold
Warning - Diets Cause Weight Gain - 5 minute video - Must See!
Poodle Science - Association for Size Diversity and Health
SPORTS SUPPLEMENTS - HOW TO Choose Safely
Independent, third party batch tested supplements - the Gold Standard in testing for banned substances. Choosing safely is absolutely crucial if you are a high level athlete or take sports supplements and undergo routine drug tests for your job role, e.g., military personnel. We also strongly encourage ALL exercisers, regardless of ability to check the supplements they take, or are considering to take, against an independent testing organisation (many supplement companies make false and misleading claims).
NZ Sport Integrity Commission - Supplement decision making
Informed Sport and Informed Choice (Worldwide and World leading)