The Healthy Former Athlete: Nutrition and Fitness Advice for the Transition from Elite Athlete to Normal Human

By Lauren Link, RD, CSSD

• The perfect gift for the college athlete looking to transition into “adulthood.”
• The book includes handy graphs, visuals, and recipes to break up the text.
• The author, a registered dietician and former Purdue University soccer player, is currently the Director of Sports Nutrition at Purdue. She has contacts in the Sports Nutrition and Sports Medicine/Performance world, so this would be a good book to push at university sports programs.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
• Release date: Nov 6, 2018
• ISBN: 9781510736108

Lauren Link, RD, CSSD

Lauren Link, RD, CSSD is a registered dietitian and Board-certified specialist in sports dietetics. She is the director of sports nutrition at Purdue University, where she played women’s soccer and was part of the 2007 Big Ten Tournament championship team. With a dual degree in dietetics and nutrition, fitness and health, Lauren began her professional career as a clinical dietitian with St. Vincent's Hospital before returning to her alma mater to work as a sports dietitian. She is the founder of a student-athlete community garden and spearheads a program called BLAST—Boiler Life After Sport—designed to help address key components of athletes' transition to “normal human” status.