Immunonutrition: Eating to Avoid Illness as an Endurance Athlete
Since exercise is supposed to make us healthy and stuff, you’d think endurance athletes, who spend countless hours running, cycling, paddling, swimming, or (insert action verb here)-ing would be the healthiest kids on the bloc
Continue Reading | Add CommentThe No Carbs After 6pm Rule! Now Featuring Science!
When it comes to nutrition, I tends to side with science—or at least common sense and strong anecdotal evidence. Usually, this serves me well, but sometimes, I end up looking like a dork when cutting-edge clinical research acci
Continue Reading | Add CommentLet’s slice up the “pizza-a-day” diet!
While few things are more commendable than a solid food challenge, nothing triggers my horse poop detector like this Mad Lib: “I’m going to eat [popular junk food] for [number over 30] days to prove [accepted nutrition belief]
Continue Reading | Add CommentCan losing weight really break your metabolism?
By now, you probably know about the media’s gloomy take on a recent study in the journal Obesity regarding how participants of The Biggest Loser have broken metabolisms. If not, here’s the skinny, so to speak. The Biggest Lose
Continue Reading | Add CommentBig Sugar and Big Corn Syrup sue each other over who sucks less
In a battle best likened to Godzilla versus Mechagodzilla, the sugar industry took corn refiners to court last Wednesday, suing for 1.1 billion dollars over a 2011 ad campaign that described high fructose corn syrup as “cor
Continue Reading | Add CommentNew Research Shows Black Coffee Makes You Evil and then Kills You
I prefer my morning java unadulterated, therefore I’m a Machiavellian psycho with sadistic tendencies. These findings (not pertaining solely to me, for the record) come from new research out of the University of Innsbruck
Continue Reading | Add CommentAre you under-eating? Well, knock it off!
NPR ran a segment recently on how many young female athletes tend to undereat, which can result in female athlete triad syndrome: irregular menstruation, low energy, and weak bones. The piece focuses on the bone thing, which i
Continue Reading | Add CommentCalorie Calculators? Who needs ’em?
The other day, I ate dirt while getting fancy on the Honey Badger (translation: I crashed my mountain bike because I was riding like an idiot) and scraped up my knee pretty good. As expected, it bled actual blood instead of petr
Continue Reading | Add CommentLow fat vs. Low carb vs. Who gives a crap?
Another ineffectual salvo was issued in the never-ending “my diet is better than your diet” nutritional Nerf battle this month when a study popped up the journal Cell Metabolism comparing low-fat diets with low-carb di
Continue Reading | Add CommentThe benefits of going on the juice
Astute Nerd Herders may notice that I’m having a major romance with the new Beachbody Performance (BBP) line of supplements, mostly because the nutty professor lookalikes Beachbody’s R&D team allowed me to play lab rat
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