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 […]
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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 […]
This Week in Food, Health, and Fitness
This week, read about a superfit 80-y-old, exercise and cancer, Health Canada endorsing pseudoscience, skinny rice, the myth of high-protein diets, and more. Case Study: How to be 80-year-old with the VO2max of 35-year-old Norwegian researchers describe the physiology of an 80-year-old man with a very high VO2 max (50 mL·kg−1·min−1), similar to most 35-year-olds. They […]