This week, read about burger love, cost benefits of cycling, recovery baths for athletes, belly fat, gluten and athletic performance, figuring out headaches, strength training for a faster 5k, the best guacamole, and an easy recipe for making your own energy bars. The caloric math of huge burgers. Prince Edward Island holds an annual month-long […]
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This Week in Food, Health, and Fitness
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 […]
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 […]
This Week in Food, Health, and Fitness
This week read about how endurance sport can improve how we respond to stress, motivational self talk, whether icing injuries delays recovery, cotton workout clothes, superfood combinations, and more. Does endurance sport make athletes better at coping with stress? Stress isn’t always a bad and shouldn’t be avoided, according to health psychologist Kelly McGonigal, a […]