Trimarni Coaching and Nutrition

As a Board Certified Sport Dietitian and coach, I enjoy following food trends to see what my athletes are going to be asking me about throughout the year. Back in 2015, I wrote an article for Ironman.com featuring my eight food trends to watch out for and I think I did pretty well with my predictions.  Kale, cauliflower rice, avocado toast, chia seed pudding, coconut oil, grain and gluten-free diets, and nut butters are among the many trend-worthy foods of the past that continue to appear on restaurant and fast food menus and in processed snacks and desserts.  Food trends are widespread and contagious. Even if you hate kale, you learn to appreciate the dirt-like, bitter taste because you gravitate to what’s popular in an effort to fit in. In the health, fitness, and even endurance sub-cultures, our choices are often based more on popularity than on taste.  Although it’s difficult to forecast the future, I made another attempt with my food trend predictions for 2018...

Are you just now getting comfortable with incorporating quinoa, kale, sprouted bread and avocado in your diet? Are you a master at making smoothies and overnight oats? Have you found yourself looking for spiral-based vegetable recipes (ex. spiraled zucchini), looking into bullet-proof coffee and eating way too much cauliflower these days? Well, it's a new year so that means more new food trends are on the horizon! source Triathletes as a group aren't shy about riding the food trend bandwagon. Thanks to social media, it’s very easy to be in the loop on the the top products our friends are using to gain that competitive edge. Unlike the sports nutrition companies that are heavily interested in developing performance-boosting products however, most food companies do not target triathletes as their key consumers. That doesn’t mean that triathletes are oblivious to the latest trendy foods, of course. If your diet regularly includes quinoa, MTC oil, smoothies...

If you are like most individuals, you are not surprised by the number of new, trendy, hip or cool foods on the market. From fresh to processed, our culture loves to eat trendy foods, companies love to profit it off of them and the media loves to talk about them. (perhaps I have reversed this timeline as the media has a major influence on how, what and why we eat).  Coconut, kale, gluten-free, greek yogurt, juicing, quinoa. Just a few that come to mind when you think of the recent foods that are most talked about when discussing "healthy eating" or dieting. Anyone remember  Olestra? Did you know that there are over a dozen types of lettuces? I wrote a blog a while back on the many types of  green leafy options  that you can add to your current diet.  How come the media isn't obsessing about Mâche, M esclun or   Mizuna and how come the grocery stores aren't carrying them for us to enjoy?  When I work with individuals on the diet, speci...