A Little Advice…

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 block, right? Weird thing is, we’re not. We’re a notoriously phlegmy demographic—and with good reason, given all the heppest researchers know …

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The 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 accidentally validates some made up crap that I’ve spent years debating. Case in point, I’ve never been a huge …

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Bacon. (That’s all I need in this headline to make you read this.)

Few foods are as divisive as cured and processed meats. Although both were created for less-than-culinary reasons (the former to preserve meat, the latter to trick consumers into eat lips and assholes), the human race has developed both a religious-like love and a fatwa-like hate for these foods. It all boils down to: Are they …

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You’re not a "food addict." You’re a "crappy food addict."

Until recently, I found the notion of “food addiction” to be a load of horse poop. But after reading David Kessler’s book, The End of Overeating, I started wavering. Kessler’s theory is that food manufacturers have, over the years, engineered the balance of fat, sugar, and salt in fast food and junk food to the …

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