Dietician Becki O'Brien aims to promote healthier post-soccer game snacks for children by shifting away from traditional options like Gatorade and Doritos. She encourages a focus on protein and natural carbohydrates to properly fuel young athletes. After sharing a list of suggested snacks with other parents on her son's soccer team, the response was mostly positive, though the online community's reaction was mixed, highlighting the tension between health-conscious choices and conventional snack options.
You look around, and people are bringing Gatorade and Doritos. We should be teaching kids to properly fuel their bodies with protein and natural carbohydrates, rather than programming them to think, 'I worked hard, so I need to recover with a Slurpee.'
Noah is gluten-free and I am very whole food focused (no food dyes, high fructose corn syrup, ingredients we can't pronounce or determine where in nature they came from). Would love to see us focus on foods that support our kids' growing bodies with the least toxicity possible.
I had two parents reach out to tell me they really appreciated my list. The overall response was positive.
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