Dwight's Eating Habits -Berger Article About Dwight & NBA Nutrition

"...Cate Shanahan provided the brains (board-certified physician, studied biochemistry and genetics at Cornell University)"

The article is longer than the quotes here. Basically, her husband, the writer, co-wrote her book with her that was sent to the Lakers which got them interested in doing this for their team, but she is a board certified doctor from Cornell.

 

Thread title was a bit misleading. Thought it said Dwight's Eating Habits - Burger Article and was going to panic because D12 was going to be out of shape or something.

 

It's disappointing, really. I'm glad he's changed it, but I'm not sure how you go that long, at that level, and it never dawns on you to make a dietary change. Either he's that ignorant or the people around him are scared to challenge him. Either one is not good for a pro athlete of his caliber. I'm curious to see his full work outs.

 

I applaud D12's leadership here.

Everyone ripping him for not doing it sooner should take note that the current players thinks he's crazy for removing sugar and doing what he does.

I wonder if the athletes intentionally consume high carb food to make sure they're energized for games - for instance, word has it that Michael Phelps eats 30k calories a day. I am no nutritional expert but there might be a method to their madness. For all the sugar D12 had, 5% body fat is ridiculously low.

 

Its easy to continue doing something if you don't see any immediate change. Not like Howard was suddenly gaining a ton of body fat. He was still hovering around 5-6 percent even with 24 hershey bars.

God forbid if I could eat Whataburger everyday with no impact on my weight then hell yeah I'd do that. Now obviously there were some jittery nerve issues because of all the sugar but unless a trainer goes out there and tells you something is up its a little hard to notice.

Still. I agree its ridiculous how Orlando's medical and nutritional staff made a non-issue of something so glaring during his stint over there.

 

He may be candid but he is absolutely wrong that there is no hard core evidence because there is with out a doubt. That's a statement coming from a guy who is very fat and in denial.

 

dont care what dwight eats.. care that he works on his post game and freethrows more

 

I don't think Morey is implying that being fat does not affect your athletic performance.

I think he is just saying there are no hard evidences to suggest specific optimum diets that includes no bread and other restrictions improves your athletic ability.

 

There is not a chance that Dwight is at 3% bodyfat.

 

Congrats! Yes, a primal diet works wonders.

 

Hogwash... A paleo diet is not a carbohydrate restrictive diet, it is a diet that limits processed foods, chemically enriched foods and emphasizes eating whole foods and long term portion control. There is not a single study that will support the contention that the accurate diet is bad for you. Simply restricting carbohydrates is not paleo and can certainly be bad for you if it relies on chemically altered foods.

 

Dwight does not have 3% body fat like that article said. It's nearly impossible to get down to 3% body fat.

Even the most shredded body-builders will be about 4-5% during competition.

An athlete like Dwight would be around 8-10%.


So that claim that he's at 3% makes me question the whole article.

 

I'm guessing they measured his BF with calipers, which can be off by as much as 3% and that's assuming the person, who's doing it, measured it as precisely as possible.

As for other guys also not buying into it, that doesn't make it ok for dwight to be late on this. If you're trying to be the best, or one of the best, you've got to go out and do your own research to figure out what's best for you to maximize your potential. Although they're finding out more and more about the consequences of sugar intake recently, one could have known a ton of sugar was bad for you 10 years ago. Plus, if he's taking in so many calories in that form, you can also guess he wasn't taking enough calories from better sources.

 

Regardless of how they measured it, if they measured 3%, they should know they are way off.

You can look at him and tell he's around 8-10%.

 

I'm very surprised healthy eating hasn't been implemented in every nba team already, or every sports organization in the world for this matter.

 

I would agree with you. Nutrition isn't only about weight loss. But Primal/Paleo isn't necessarily low carb. It's more about avoiding foods that promote inflammation. You scale your carb intake to your life style. Your body's preferred source of fuel is fat, not carbohydrates. Carbs are necessary but where you get them from and what your life style looks like is key. Obviously you don't want your body in ketosis for a long amount of time, but Primal/Paleo isn't keto.

 

You can't discredit the whole article based on a quote by Howard on his BF%. I'd agree if the person behind this diet had written this up AND given the quote, but they did not. Who knows where Howard got his BF measured. For all we know, he's been using a digital tester himself and assumes it's accurate. The writer would likely not catch something like that because, well, he's a writer, not a trainer/nutritionist.

 

There is no way that Dwight is 3% body fat. Like BMD said 8-10% is a good range for him, I would go as far as saying 10-12% body fat on him. I have worked with calipers and with DEXA scans for measuring body fat and other variables. The lowest body fat I have ever seen was 5.6% on a DEXA scan (gold standard for testing body fat) and that was with a world class sprinter he probably weighed 170-175. This guy was beyond ripped you could clearly see separation in muscle fibers and I could not even measure him correctly with calipers. Dwight is probably in the 8-12% range IMO

 

Just a general question, but how is Dwight so damn muscular (physically and aesthetically speaking) if his eating habits are trash?