{"id":278323,"date":"2025-11-12T13:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T13:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/278323\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T13:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T13:14:08","slug":"5-things-parents-need-to-know-about-feeding-young-athletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/278323\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Things Parents Need To Know About Feeding Young Athletes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are so many mixed messages and misinformation about nutrition out there, especially when it comes to fueling young athletes. It&#8217;s so important to remember that what is considered good advice for an adult working an office job may not apply to your multi-sport athlete who is in the midst of a growth spurt. As <a href=\"https:\/\/stevielynrd.com\/about\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"mbg-track-event\" data-track-event-types=\"click\" data-track-type=\"article-link\" data-track-prop-element-id=\"in-body-link\" data-track-prop-label=\"page_type | element_id\" data-track-prop-category=\"Link\" data-track-prop-link=\"https:\/\/stevielynrd.com\/about\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a sports dietitian<\/a>, my goal is to provide tools to use food as a way to support the health, performance, and overall well-being of young athletes now, while setting them up for a successful, active life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are so many mixed messages and misinformation about nutrition out there, especially when it comes to fueling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[49,48,84,9841,395,7430,82],"class_list":["post-278323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nutrition","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-hydration","tag-nutrition","tag-protein","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}