Benefits of eating fruits for an athlete um there very high in carbohydrates which is good.
For one of our eat to compete programs we did a cooking demo for the girls soccer team.
We had eight girls come out and we showed them how to cut fruit we did pineapple, mango, cantaloupe and watermelon.
And then we gave them some tips on how to prepare it and save it.
We got to pick kind of where we wanted to get more experience in dietetics profession
and I'm interested in sports nutrition so that is why I picked working for or with athletes
And this I just took on the cooking demonstrations because it's my passion I like cooking.
And I just really hope that they gain a little bit of knowledge some basic nutrition information.
We did fruit that was our topic, summer fruits, so just that they could pull some nutrition information,
learn some nutrients, some fun facts, that they can take away from. We did  how to cut the fruit so we did.
So just things like that simple that they can just take away with them and have for future references.
Working with athletes is what I want to do in the future
so just working with this program like cooking demonstrations
I was able to see their responses to
what we were doing and how is it impacting them,
and seeing them get excited for food and nutrition and just
um it just validates that it's exactly what I want to do for the future.
I really liked actually implementing what we're working on and what we've been working on all semester
working with the food, seeing the athletes, seeing their enthusiasm. Its been really fun.
