DIY Sports Drink: Electrolyte and Energy Drink for Cycling with Recipe
When you’re heading out for a ride, race or other cycling event it’s easy to grab a couple bars or gels and head out the […]
Energy Balance and Your Body Weight
Energy balance and the effect on your body weight is the most important topic to understand whether your goal is to maintain, gain or lose […]
Carbohydrates are the Key to Better Performance while Cycling
Carbohydrates are a perpetual hot topic in the world of sports nutrition. These days, when it comes to carbs, most focus is on low carb […]
Eating Processed Foods Linked to Shorter Life Span
Instant noodles, breakfast cereal and chicken nuggets may be delicious, but they are also associated with an earlier death. Eating highly processed foods could shorten […]
A Big New Diet Study Just Disproved Several Theories on Weight Loss
The DIETFITS study published today isn’t super surprising, get 600 people to eat more vegetables and less added sugar for a year and they’ll lose […]
High Carb Diets Linked to Alzheimer’s
As reported in The Atlantic on Friday, the journal Diabetologia published a study that “found that people with high blood sugar had a faster rate […]
Long-Term Coffee Consumption and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease
An interesting article regarding long-term coffee consumption and risk of cardiovascular disease was just published in Circulation. The meta-analysis, which included 35 cohort studies and […]
No, Cutting Carbs Doesn’t Prevent Cancer
“This link between sugar and cancer has sweeping consequences,” wrote Johan Thevelein, a Belgian biologist and co-author of a study published in the journal Nature […]
Diet Soda and Dementia
A widely reported study published last week in the journal Stroke found that drinking even one can of diet soda a day triples your risk […]
One Man’s Trash Is Another Man’s Gym
“The perfect is the enemy of the good” In the fitness world I often see people fall victim to the Nirvana fallacy, in which people […]
Why You Get Muscle Cramps and What You Can Do About It
Muscle cramps sneak up on you suddenly. You might be sitting on the couch or 25 miles from home on your bike when one strikes, […]
