This week, read about fad diets, how supplements hurt exercise, why running may be the fountain of youth, yogurt and diabetes, how your muscles uses protein, and more. Why Do Fad Diets Persist? A main motivation for starting my website was to provide a resource for evidence-based nutrition information, and help dispel myths and fads. […]
Monthly Archives: November 2014
Foret Montmorency Training Camp
I spent this past weekend with XC Ottawa at our traditional “on snow’ camp at Universite Laval’s Foret Montmorency, a forestry station and outdoor education center located about 1 hour north of Quebec City. La Foret staff guarantee at least a 2km loop, thanks to snowmaking and snow preservation (they stocked 6,000 m of last year’s snow […]
This Week in Food, Health, and Fitness
This week, read about the importance of omega-3 fats from plants (ALA), fasted cardio workouts to burn fat, cold remedies that don’t work, and more. Importance of Omega-3 Fats from Plants A growing body of research points to the critical importance of polyunsaturated fats, in particular omega-3 fats. These polyunsaturated fats are called “essential,” because our bodies cannot […]
First Tracks in the Gatineau Park
The first ski of the year is always very exciting. Typically the conditions are not optimal, but that usually doesn’t matter – skiing on any kind of snow at this time is fun. This morning I went out with a few of my XC Ottawa teammates and we were more than pleasantly surprised – not […]