This week, read about two behaviors that blunt the influence of fatty meals on vascular health, research that challenges ice for treating muscle injuries, air pollution and exercise, how bike lanes & shared streets pay for themselves, new studies that question the benefits of fish oil supplements, Easter cooking ideas, and more. Fatty Meals Impair […]
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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 cooking shows making people fat, why heavier athletes don’t need more carbs during activity, how fonts influence health behavior, a questionable diet soda and weight study, limiting food waste with ugly but tasty produce, and more. Do TV Cooking Shows Make Us Fat? Researchers from Cornell’s Food and Brand lab investigated […]
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 […]