This week, read about what makes us take the stairs, the science of sleep, fish oil supplements, watermelon and exercise performance, how to make exercise habits stick, understanding food expiration dates, dietary phosphates, and more. What Makes Us More Likely to Take the Stairs? I am a strong believer that our environment can help shape […]
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This Week in Food, Health, and Fitness
This week, read about older athletes’ fitness age, ice baths, processed foods, low-cal celebrity diets, coaching wisdom, walking in nature, precooling. Older Athletes Have a Strikingly Young Fitness Age A new study of participants in the coming Senior Olympics found that these older competitors were much younger physically than their chronological age. The study determined […]
This Week in Food, Health, and Fitness
This week, read about how green spaces make kids smarter, lifting heavy or light weights, gluten-free diets, how elite ultra runners fuel their performance, risks of drinking aloe vera, secret to Usain Bolt’s speed, supplement risks for athletes, and more. Why lift heavy weights if you don’t have to? Research questions the dogma that heavy […]
This Week in Food, Health, and Fitness
This week, read about nutrition for travel and jet lag, health benefits of nuts, clarifying nutrition claims about milk, nutrition headlines and click bait, flavonoids in foods, reducing household food waste, parallels of dietary fads and religion, and more. Nuts, peanuts linked to reduced risk of death from cancer, other diseases. Another study adds the the […]