Nutrition

For the Love of God, Stop Avoiding Gluten Unless You Have a Legit Medical Reason to Do So

Article added November 11, 2019 Categories Featured Nutrition, Vegetarian/Special Diets

Written By: DANIELLE ZICKL

If your body can process it, you’re not getting any healthier by skimping on it—and you might even be hurting your performance. I’ve never been one to follow—or even see the point of—trendy diets. Completely restricting certain foods or ingredients would only make me want them more, and this way of eating only seems to […]

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How Eating One Avocado a Day Can Help Your Health

Article added November 11, 2019 Categories Featured Nutrition, Nutrition, Nutrition Essentials

Written By: Bicycling US

Consider that guac upcharge an investment in your heart health. Eating one avocado a day was associated with significantly lower levels of types of LDL, or bad cholesterol, in overweight or obese adults, a study published in the Journal of Nutrition found. Avocado also improved levels of lutein, an antioxidant associated with heart health, by more than 68 percent. One avocado […]

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Eat these foods to look after your liver this Christmas

Article added October 25, 2019 Categories Featured Nutrition, Nutrition

Written By: RICK PEARSON

Foods high in choline can help during the festive period. Unless you happen to be a reindeer, you’re unlikely to emerge from the Christmas period fitter than when you started. ’Tis the season for large amounts of food and drink, and the upshot of over-indulging is that your liver can take a pounding. However, according […]

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Can Drinking Beer Wreck Your Weight-Loss Progress From Your Workouts?

Article added October 17, 2019 Categories Featured Nutrition, Nutrition

Written By: DANIELLE ZICKL

New research looks at whether a beer or two messes with fat loss and muscle gain during a HIIT workout routine. According to a new study published in the journal Nutrients, drinking beer didn’t influence body composition markers like fat loss in participants who regularly did HIIT workouts. The American Heart Association (AHA) recommends no more than one drink—12 ounces (oz) of beer or […]

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Does It Matter When You Exercise If You Want to Keep Weight Off?

Article added September 30, 2019 Categories Featured News, Featured Nutrition, Nutrition, Uncategorized

Written By: SELENE YEAGER

Researchers tapped into the habits of those who maintained a weight loss of at least 13 kg to find out. People who consistently work out during the same time of day tend to get about an hour more exercise each week than those who are inconsistent in their exercise timing, according to a study published in Obesity. […]

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