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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
This Week in Food, Health, and Fitness
This week, read about how exercise intensity matters for glucose tolerance, pro tips for tendon injuries, the Mediterranean diet cuts heart disease risk, tips for daylight saving time, lack of nutrition in medical education, evidence for foam rolling, how athletes stay fast after 50, adding salt to sports drink improves 1/2 ironman performance, probiotics hype, […]