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Body Weight and the Young Athlete
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English - February 11, 2019 06:00 - 37 minutes - 57.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsHealth & Fitness Kids & Family cooking dietitian food healthykids pediatricnutrition registereddietitian Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Coach encouraging you to lose or gain some weight for performance? Youth sports dietitian, Melanie Battaglia, is featured on this episode about nutrition and body weight amongst young athletes. Betsy and Jen ask some pointed questions about when it is or is not appropriate for an athlete to gain or lose weight for their sport, and whose discretion is appropriate to make that determination.