Dominique Moceanu Quotes

There is one thing on which most athletes and experts seem to agree. If you want to be an elite athlete, good nutrition at a young age is an important place to start.

If you say an athlete doesn't need supplementation, that he can get everything through food, you're wrong.

I study this sport.

To be a nutritionist in France, you must be a doctor, seven years studies, and then three more years in nutrition.

Food really is fuel - and hydration as well - but for athletic activity, you really got to take it seriously, or else it can negatively impact your performance.

Weight isn't a factor in nutritional health.

When I was training for the Olympics, I didn't eat the way I should have. I missed out on much-needed protein and opted for every easy carb.

Growing up, my parents were healthy eaters and starting to run and compete when I was 13, I knew the need to focus on what you need to eat. I remember going to grocery store myself and picking up fresh fruit and knowing early on the right foods to fuel my body.

I certainly look at the modern guys and think they are a different species to when we played. They are fitter and their conditioning is extraordinary.

Your future health can be predicted by the nutrient density of your diet.

A runner's stride is not perfectly efficient.

I didn't know what to do with calories.

The human body is a miraculous self-healing machine, but those self-repair systems require a nutrient-dense diet.

In general, losing weight is a good thing for those who are overweight, but it's important to lose weight in a way that enhances your health rather than one that may compromise it.

In particular, I studied German and Russian biomechanics.

The excitement of vitamins, nutrition and metabolism permeated the environment.

Nutrition is also a valuable component that can help athletes both protect themselves and improve performance.

The East Germans first used biomechanics. This meant that rather than guessing about technique and form, they could apply changes to athletic performance based on science.

That's the same in college. It's the same in high school. Kids are getting bigger, stronger, faster, more into the weightlifting, more into nutrition, more into size.

Our bodies are machines and have to be functional, and to do that they have to be fed properly.

My parents wanted me to become a national athlete.

Coming from an athletic background, the scientific aspect is a really big part of understanding beauty and how the body works.

Nutrition is an exciting, dynamic field - there are more than 10,000 articles published on human nutrition in medical journals every year.

An athlete's diet is a complicated thing.

After one Olympics, if we invest in sports and say we will get a gold medal in the next Olympic, it doesn't work like that in sports. How it works is that you provide the infrastructure, provide education about nutrition and health.