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DIY Sports Drink: Electrolyte and Energy Drink for Cycling with Recipe

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Energy Balance and Your Body Weight

  • July 31, 2020
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 body weight. Weight loss and…
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Carbohydrates are the Key to Better Performance while Cycling

  • June 25, 2020
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

  • February 12, 2019
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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A Big New Diet Study Just Disproved Several Theories on Weight Loss

  • February 20, 2018
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…
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High Carb Diets Linked to Alzheimer’s

  • January 29, 2018
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…
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Long-Term Coffee Consumption and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease

  • November 13, 2017
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

  • October 20, 2017
“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…
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Diet Soda and Dementia

  • August 23, 2017
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…
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One Man’s Trash Is Another Man’s Gym
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One Man’s Trash Is Another Man’s Gym

  • May 24, 2017
“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…
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Why You Get Muscle Cramps and What You Can Do About It

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