This week, read about recipes for runners, healthy snacks predicting grocery shopping purchases, why you should listen to your coach, diet and cancer risk, the importance of distributing protein intake, pros and cons of marathons vs 5k’s, the myth of endurance training causing loss of speed, food sources of iron, how runners can overcome carbophobia, and […]
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This Week in Food, Health, and Fitness
This week, read about misleading wellness gurus, carbs to fuel a fast marathon, running into old age, music for sprint intervals, microwaving and nutrient loss, coffee for cancer prevention, and more. Pseudoscience and strawberries: ‘wellness’ gurus should carry a health warning Hadley Freeman writes an excellent article about the proliferation and popularity of “wellness” bloggers […]
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 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 […]