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Event Recap: Marathon Matt comes to RunSafe!
Posted by The RunSafe Team on November 12, 2012
This past weekend, local coach extraordinaire Marathon Matt teamed up with RunSafe for a fun event at UCSF. A group of twenty runners flocked to the exclusive opportunity to hang out with Matt and the RunSafe Team. The event started with a 5k fun-run. The intrepid runners wound their way across the UCSF campus, past AT&T ballpark, and up the Embarcadero. Along the way, they set their sights on the curious Red...
Dietary Supplements
Posted by Janine Wong MS, RD on November 6, 2012
The Starting Line: Which dietary supplements are safe and effective? A dietary supplement is any product designed to increase a specific component of the diet, including vitamins, minerals, herbs, botanicals, and amino acids. Many substances can be sold over the counter as dietary supplements, even steroids. A recent study by Tscholl, et al concluded that the incidence of supplement use among athletes i...
Self Monitoring for Weight Loss
Posted by Janine Wong MS, RD on October 29, 2012
The Starting Line: What self-monitoring methods are available to help me lose weight? Self monitoring is regularly recording your dietary intake, physical activity, and weight. Studies consistently show that overweight and obese people who self monitor will lose more weight than those who do not. While the optimal level of self monitoring has yet to be determined, increased frequency of self monitoring is ass...
Dietary Nitrates and Cardiorespiratory Function
Posted by Andrea Hacker MS, RD on October 22, 2012
The Starting Line: Can adding beets to your diet improve performance? Proper cardiovascular functioning requires nitrite and nitric oxide, byproducts of the nitrates in our diet. Nitric oxide has long been recognized as a potent vasodilator, and recent studies have confirmed that this effect can lower blood pressure in individuals without hypertension. Two research groups have looked deeper into the effect o...
The Basics of Weight Loss - Practical Strategies
Posted by Janine Wong MS, RD on October 15, 2012
The Starting Line: What is the best way to approach safe weight loss? The science of weight loss is simple: burn more calories than you consume. This caloric deficit can come from a combination of exercise and dietary modification. According to the CDC, roughly one pound of weight is equal to 3500 calories; therefore a caloric deficit of 500 calories per day will lead to 1 pound of weight loss per week. Healt...
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