New Year’s Nutrition for Roller Derby?

New Year, New You?Another new year.  Another chance to reinvent yourself and your goals - you've heard that story before, right?January often brings a slew of resolutions and the urge to over-correct our holiday habits.   The start of the year can be a …

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Meet RDA’s Nutrition Expert

This week on Derby in the Kitchen, we get *out* of the kitchen and into Lilith NoFair's library of many leather-bound books..!Booty Quake interviews our roller derby nutrition expert Lilith NoFair on fad diets, protein, how to change our eating habits, an…

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Got Breasts?

A disclaimer: today’s post has absolutely nothing to do with roller derby. BUT, roller derby is a sport played mainly by women, and this post has everything to do with women’s health. I’ll be up front here. I already eat a mostly-vegetarian diet, a…

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Eat something.

Confusion reigns with new/budding athletes and what to eat before/during/after practice. Easy answer: eat something More detailed answer: Eat something carb-y beforehand, that won't make your stomach do flipflops. We'll leave it at that. You'll figure ou…

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Pre-game meal on the road

We're heading to the Eves of Destruction in Victoria BC tomorrow... it's a 9:15am departure for us from Vancouver to the ferry, for a 6pm bout. You have to plan ahead when you're going to play on the road - don't get caught with food you're not used to ea…

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