This week, read about simplifying fitness, gluten sensitivity, salt and headaches, bogus health claims, women lifting weights, and more. Simplifying Fitness Julia Beluz (Vox.com) wrote an excellent piece this week about how we tend to overcomplicate exercise (We make exercise way too complicated. Here’s how to get it right). She summarizes and simplifies what we know into […]
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This Week in Food, Health, and Fitness
This week, read about dietary guidelines and health, BPA and blood pressure, how high intensity intervals boost health, staying fast over 40, Greek yogurt, fatigue and endurance performance, and more. Are Dietary Guidelines Really Making Us Fat or Sick? A common theme in many internet posts is how the dietary guidelines are outdated, and are making people […]
This Week in Food, Health, and Fitness
This week, read about the Mediterranean diet and longevity, benefits of nitrates from vegetables, running to stay young, worrying about wheat, and more. Could a Mediterranean Diet Extend Your Life? Harvard Medical School researchers found that adherence to a Mediterranean-style diet was associated with longer telomeres in women. Telomeres are recently-discovered structures on the end of chromosomes that […]
This Week in Food, Health, and Fitness
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. […]