This week, read about food and nutrition tracking, muscle-building supplements and cancer risk, saturated fats, Blue Zones, salt and endurance performance, and more. Food and Nutrition Tracking It should be easier to track what you eat. Analyzing dietary intake used to be a tedious task and almost exclusively the domain of nutrition professionals, but advances […]
Monthly Archives: April 2015
Mediterranean Chickpea Salad
This is a terrific salad with vibrant colors and a great combination of flavors. It’s also quite versatile: it’s a great side dish to bring to a pot-luck or BBQ, a nutritious meal you can pack for tasty lunch, and stuff any leftovers into a pita for a nutritious sandwich. Exact measurements aren’t important, so […]
This Week in Food, Health, and Fitness
This week, read about difficulty in achieving sodium and potassium guidelines, beet juice improving intermittent exercise, cognitive function, and fast cadence cycling, benefits of pistachios, canned tuna concerns, fast food for exercise recovery, negative calorie food myth, illness after stage races, and more. Are current guidelines for sodium and potassium reasonable? A study published this […]
This Week in Food, Health, and Fitness
This week, read about two behaviors that blunt the influence of fatty meals on vascular health, research that challenges ice for treating muscle injuries, air pollution and exercise, how bike lanes & shared streets pay for themselves, new studies that question the benefits of fish oil supplements, Easter cooking ideas, and more. Fatty Meals Impair […]