Monday, January 28, 2019
A Dietitian Weighs In On Three Dancers' Rehearsal-Day Diets
Dance Magazine: Finding the right balance of meals and snacks to get through a dancer's day can take a lot of trial and error. To give you ideas, Dance Magazine asked three professional dancers to share the meals that kept them moving throughout one rehearsal day this season. Registered dietitian Emily Cook Harrison, who runs Nutrition for Great Performances, weighed in with her advice on how they could optimize their fuel even further.
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My best friend is a ballet dancer. She’s been dancing for most of her life and always has had trouble with eating right. I found it interesting that these three dancers all have relatively solid choices for meals and appear to be well established adults who consciously make healthy choices. It might be representative of the adult dancing world, it might not, I don’t know as I only have connections to the younger dancers through my friend who is also in college. I think it was a good choice though, regardless of its actual representation of the dance world. I feel that showing the healthier lifestyle with people making these conscious choices because they have found the things they like rather than people living this way because they feel they have to is a food way to show younger dancers there is a balanced way to eat. My friend has trouble partially because she’s a kid in college and there just isn’t a lot available on campus in terms of balanced eating. She also struggles because of the deeply ingrained body image problems that many dance teachers perpetuate. Seeing professional dancers whose diets have grown because they listened to themselves and not their teachers might go a long way for those who are still struggling to listen to their own bodies and not their internalized trauma.
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