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Category: Nutrition
Basic and advanced nutritional strategy to promote healthy living and improve performance.
A Cost-Analysis of "Leanness"
Instagram coaches and fitness marketers have taken to all platforms of social media to tout how easy it is to "get ripped in 21 days" or to be "built like an athlete in time for summer." It all sounds so easy. Too easy, in fact. So, what's the actual cost...
Take Your Nutrition Guidelines with a Grain of Salt
Decades ago, fat was the enemy. "Excess dietary fat makes you fat," they'd say. Taken at face value this seems like pretty sound logic. These days, obesity is blamed on carbohydrates. Red meat has always been a scapegoat for heart disease. Throw sodium in the mix for heart problems. The...
Stop Dieting and Work on Your Nutrition
While the primary definition of diet refers to how you eat and the foods you put into your body, it has taken on a new meaning. The word "diet" now denotes a temporary alteration in eating habits. It is a specific change (or changes), for better or worse, that has a definitive beginning and...
5 Ways to Avoid the Thanksgiving Hangover
It's the beginning of the holiday feasting season and while we still have a little bit to go before Christmas, Thanksgiving starts us off with a bang. When there is so much delicious food around, so much family to see, and so many scheduled activities, it becomes all to easy...
5 Key Nutrition Strategies for Youth Athletes
Youth sports have gotten progressively more competitive in the last 20 years. With all of the additional travel, practice times, and training , there is an increasing and often neglected need for acceptable nutrition. Proper nutrition can make all the difference, both for performance and for maintaining energy levels throughout...