Sunday, July 21, 2013

[gatortalk] Fwd: [gatornews] GatorNews from the Palm Beach Post and the Miami Herald, courtesy of JunoGator

This is a good article about Sarah Snyder, director of nutrition at UF. How would you like to consume 6000 calories a day?  

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University of Florida's nutrition program offers plate-by-plate guidance to athletes

BY JASON LIESER - PALM BEACH POST STAFF WRITER

GAINESVILLE — 

Getting college athletes to eat broccoli can be just hard as persuading toddlers to do it.

Plenty of football players show up at the University of Florida after powering their spectacular high school careers with ice cream and cheeseburgers, and if that was good enough to land them a spot with the Gators, why change now?

"Sometimes it takes a moment to fail before they realize," said Sarah Snyder, UF's director of sports nutrition. "It might take falling out, dehydration or injury before they say, 'OK, I need to fix something. What can I do?' Not everybody's ready to receive eating healthy and following a plan right away. There are teaching moments."

If director of strength and conditioning Jeff Dillman builds the truck and coach Will Muschamp drives it, Snyder is in charge of fuel. She oversees nutrition for all Florida athletes, from 5-foot gymnast Kytra Hunter to 6-foot-6, 312-pound offensive lineman Tyler Moore.

The largest players on UF's football team — which will return to the practice field Aug. 2 — need around 6,000 calories per day, compared to wide receivers or basketball players who consume roughly 3,500. Male track athletes take in close to 2,800, while gymnasts average about 2,000.

Snyder's four-person staff works to show them the best way to arrive at those numbers. They lay out a plan, ask players to text them photos of their meals and coach them at the Training Table, which serves everything from steamed crab legs to vegetables to freshly rolled sushi to scholarship athletes at dinner Monday through Thursday.

After a player finishes assembling his meal from the buffet, he checks in for what Snyder calls "plate coaching" to see how his dinner grades out.

"If it's going toward their goal, they're good to go," she said. "We also look for three colors per plate: a carb, a protein and a vegetable. They say, 'Look Sarah, I did it! Three colors!'

"But not everybody does that. When you see a plate that looks like cardboard and it's white, it's very obvious to the dietitian. 'Hey, can you at least try some broccoli?' Some people didn't grow up with it."

Ideally, Snyder wants the athletes to eat every three hours, which comes out to five or six meals per day. One of the main hurdles is convincing them to eat breakfast, which they might have viewed as optional in the past.

One of her main talking points is the 80/20 rule, which is simply that she wants players to make healthy choices 80 percent of the time. If an athlete normally orders a fried chicken sandwich at Chick-fil-A, she prefers that he grab the grilled chicken sandwich four out of every five times.

"At the end of the day it's their choice, but most of them understand they'll play better and perform better when they eat the right things," said Preston Greene, the strength coach for UF men's basketball, golf and tennis. "You can't monitor what every athlete eats every day all year, but Sarah and her staff have created a great program. Her system is pretty far ahead of the game."

The nutrition staff also tracks hydration levels and uses blood tests to evaluate whether athletes need to increase their iron or Vitamin D, for example.

Snyder, 30, came to UF after four years of training football and basketball players at Athletes' Performance in Arizona and Texas. She grew up in Boulder, Colo., went to Santa Clara University and was a graduate assistant at Florida State for two years.

She is a critical member of the football support staff and works closely with Muschamp and Dillman. She helped shape the stronger, leaner roster that helped Florida go 11-2 and reach the Sugar Bowl last season.

"It's part of the development," Muschamp said. "Sarah does an outstanding job of identifying diet, hydration levels, body fat — How are they gonna fire at the highest level?"

Snyder seems to know the answer.



NCAA rejects claims in concussion lawsuit

CHICAGO (AP) Rejecting claims made in a lawsuit concerning concussions, the NCAA said Saturday it has taken steps to protect student athletes from head injuries and that player safety is among the college sports association's core principles.

Attorneys suing the NCAA over its handling of head injuries asked a federal judge Friday to let them expand the lawsuit to include thousands of plaintiffs nationwide. The motion seeking class-action status was filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago, where the original lawsuit was filed in 2011 on behalf of former Eastern Illinois football player Adrian Arrington and several other former athletes.

"Student-athlete safety is one of the NCAA's foundational principles," said spokeswoman Stacey Osburn. "The NCAA has been at the forefront of safety issues throughout its existence."

She said the association has addressed the issue of head injuries through a combination of playing rules, equipment requirements and medical practices. The NCAA does not believe the legal action is appropriate, Osburn said.

Concussions have become a major concern in sports in recent years. The NFL, NHL and college football, among others, have implemented stricter rules on hits to the head and player safety. The NFL is involved in a lawsuit involving more than 4,000 former players seeking millions of dollars for problems they blame on head injuries suffered during their careers.

Attached to the class-action request from those suing the NCAA is a report for the plaintiffs by a leading authority on concussions, Robert Cantu, who cites an internal NCAA survey from 2010. He said the NCAA found that nearly half of the college trainers who responded to the survey indicated they put athletes showing signs of a concussion back into the same game.

"It is well settled in the scientific community that an athlete must never be returned to play on the same day after a concussion diagnosis," said Cantu, who is medical director of the National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research in Chapel Hill, N.C.

The plaintiffs say the NCAA was lax in establishing a clear policy about dealing with concussions, leaving key decisions to individual schools or leagues.

Arrington contends he suffered "numerous and repeated concussions" at Eastern Illinois. He is seeking unspecified monetary damages and changes in policy, including the establishment of a long-term medical monitoring program for injured athletes and new concussion guidelines for schools and coaches.

The NCAA said it has taken recent steps to increase awareness of how to treat possible head injuries, from legislation and outreach efforts to new rules on the playing field. On Friday, the NCAA said it was awarding a $399,999 grant to fund a study into the long-term effects of head injuries in college sports.












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