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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 door. They're convenient and packaged for easy consumption while riding. They're also expensive, create trash and can be a real gut buster to digest. Many cyclists prefer to get their... Continue Reading →
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 restriction can lead to favorable affects on body mass and composition independent of energy intake. When we are talking about performance while cycling, however, be... Continue Reading →
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 suggests. According to a study in JAMA Internal Medicine eating highly processed foods may shorten your life. The study tracked diet and health over eight years in... Continue Reading →
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 with nothing in your stomach but water, but haven't had the willpower to give it a try, you can thank Reddit-or /u/TA201805091716 for taking one for the... Continue Reading →
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 are the takeaways regarding what doesn't matter when dieting. The study, published today in JAMA Nutrition provides a few key takeaways: Low-carb and low-fat dieters achieved essentially... Continue Reading →
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 blood sugar—whether or not their blood-sugar level technically made them diabetic. In other words, the higher the blood sugar, the faster the cognitive decline." From The... Continue Reading →
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. There’s a lot of stuff here, gifts for cyclists, fitness nuts and some of my recommended reading for the year kicks off the list. All... Continue Reading →
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 coffee consumption (3 to 5 cups per day) is cardio-protective and reduces your risk of developing cardiovascular disease. Background — Considerable controversy exists regarding the association... Continue Reading →
“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 this week and quickly anti-carb crusaders were allover the place claiming removing sugar and carbs from ones diet would prevent cancer. Not so fast. The... Continue Reading →
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 uproar but it's probably not time to throw away your diet soda quite yet. This is the first study to find a link between artificial... Continue Reading →
"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 because they feel reaching perfection is too hard. The fall victim to the idea that you must have the perfect equipment, the perfect routing, the... Continue Reading →
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