Food For Sport
Blood Testing in Cape Town

Food For Sport is a source of nutrition, diet and health related information. For more information on services and nutritional topics check out www.foodforsport.co.za or sign up to receive a topics delivered to your inbox. Services are offered in and around Cape Town including dietary plans, body composition analysis, nutritional support, clinical screening and corporate health consultations. It is run and owned by a registered dietitian with a special interest in sports nutrition and healthy eating. For any queries or comments get in touch via the contact page.

We are a team of dieticians, chefs and athletes with a passion for food and performance. We aim to provide the support you need to find a way with food that works for you on every level, no matter where you are starting. Food for Sport and the Performance Kitchen together provide individualised, evidence-based food solutions for optimum health so that you can stay focused on what matters to you, and keep performing at your best. We provide a full house of nutrition management and programming for teams at all levels. From development and management of onsite meal or catering services, creating nutrition protocol, training and educating staff and athletes, consulting on supplementation use, planning tour and travel nutrition, to providing one-on-one assessments and meal plans, our goal is to enhance performance and health through nutrition. Food for Sport and The Performance Kitchen can help advance your nutrition support and event management for athletes. Bespoke Assessments Fine tune your approach with our range of top level assessments, including resting metabolic rate, exercise metabolism, caffeine sensitivity and sweat sodium analysis. Performance Foods Get in touch to have the Performance Kitchen cater for your needs. Performance nutrition is not just about athletes on the sports field. We extend our services and consulting scope to various businesses and companies where the health of the employee matters. Resting metabolic rate and fat vs carbohydrate use assessed to determine energy requirements and metabolic flexibility. Sweat Sodium Analysis 30 minute resting test using clinical sweat assessment methods to determine sweat sodium concentration. Allows categorization of sweat sodium losses and adjustment of hydration strategies accordingly. There is some decent evidence that beetroot and dietary nitrates can improve exercise tolerance and performance and that tart cherry can assist with recovery. This granadilla butter is another quick and easy staple to whip up over the weekend and stick in the fridge for the week ahead. This is superb, quick and easy recipe for high protein banana bread. From opening the kitchen cupboard to taking the bread out of the oven will take you 45 minutes, 30 of which is just waiting. This is perceived to provide a benefit in competition. Naturally this meant finding iron rich foods and complimenting them with vitamin C sources to improve iron absorption. We have introduced sweat testing to our toolbox of assessments to help tailor your nutritional approach to training and racing. Sweat testing is a fairly novel approach to optimizing and individualising hydration strategies. It is often referred to as the gold standard of body composition assessments. FODMAPS might be a funny sounding acronym but bloating, cramping, constipation, diarrhea and pain are no laughing matter. A weekly target for omega 3 foods should be to consume two servings of oily fish.