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Diet
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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 weight loss strategies, as carb…
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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 your life, a new study…
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What Happens When You Go On A 7-Day Water Fast
I find fad diets interesting, one that’s been gaining steam lately is the extended water fast. If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to go a full week…
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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 weight. What is interesting in the study…
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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 of cognitive decline than those with normal…
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The Best Holiday Gifts for Men 2017
Whether you’re shopping for someone else or building your wish list, I hope this curated collection of the year’s best gadgets, gear, books, tools and toys meets your holiday needs.…
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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 1,283,685 participants, suggests that long-term…
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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 Communications. That study really made the media rounds…
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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 of dementia. Unsurprisingly, this finding caused quite the…
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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 never even begin an important task…
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