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This week: the operation behind 162 Dodgers games, a military bone bar, and the latest news.
💡 EXPERT OPINION
The Los Angeles Dodgers’ nutrition service runs for 162 games across roughly seven months.
In a five-minute film, the Manager of Performance Nutrition Tyrone Hall and Head Performance Chef and Dietitian Kristen Loiacono demonstrate the kitchen operation behind that schedule. Hall is in his 11th season with the club; Loiacono is in her ninth.
The first meal can be served at noon, and some players eat two or three meals a day at the stadium. That makes the work a repeatable food-service system as well as an individual nutrition programme.
The roster is international. Hall and Loiacono describe culturally appropriate menus, using local caterers when required and adapting provision around the team’s travel. The point of that preparation is consistency: players see the meal service rather than the changes needed to keep it running.
The film shows a chef-dietitian team working across menu planning, preparation and athlete relationships rather than treating the kitchen as a separate catering function.
The video is a great look into the volume and service decisions hidden inside a seven-month competition calendar.
📈NEWS
Ahaana Menon appointed Nutritionist for the Women’s First Team at Crystal Palace as part of placement year
Kamleon partner with AS Monaco to provide effortless daily hydration monitoring
Mary Ann Phan appointed as the Performance Nutrition Fellow at the UFC Performance Institute
U.S. Army is trialling goal-specific ready meals at Fort Carson before a 1 October launch — Staff Sgt. Jmyus Reed is building lose, gain and maintain routes
Anne Haug put gut tolerance ahead of price in her nutrition-spend rule
C4 launched AlphaBomb Sport at $34.99 — the one-scoop formula is NSF Certified for Sport
RAW Nutrition launched Informed Sport tested Gels with 25g glucose-fructose carbohydrate and 100mg sodium
Dr Trent Stellingwerff joined Human Performance Outliers episode 499 for a 73-minute discussion of RED-S and body-composition management in endurance athletes
Neversecond is the official gel and hydration partner for the Austin Marathon, Half Marathon and 5K on 14 February 2027
Applied Nutrition launched 90 Creatine Chews at £24.95 — three chews provide 3g creatine and the jar contains 30 daily servings
Astreas partnered with Informed Sport around its performance-nutrition range
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💡PERFORMANCE TECH
Not every useful performance product is new. In 2018, U.S. Army researchers rolled the Performance Readiness Bar into four basic-training sites.
The idea was specific: give each recruit one calcium-and-vitamin D-fortified bar daily, between dinner and sleep, to support bone health during training. The Army called it “essentially a fourth meal”.
It was cost-neutral, replacing an underused commercial energy bar.
The evidence boundary matters: the 2018 field evaluation was ongoing and the Army said the bar would “hopefully” reduce injury risk.
A later randomised trial found that one daily fortified bar prevented rises in biochemical markers of bone resorption, but did not change tibial microarchitecture after eight weeks.
For sport, the transferable point is delivery rather than a universal supplement prescription. A targeted nutrition intervention was built into a familiar food, assigned a clear time and distributed through an existing system.
And it appears to have been memorable. In an anecdotal 2021 Air Force Reddit thread, former trainees asked where they could buy the bars and described looking forward to them. Not representative evidence—but a reminder that adoption still matters.
This 2018 throwback is a good case for looking beyond sport: innovation can sit in the delivery system, not just the ingredient list.
