This week, read about how green spaces make kids smarter, lifting heavy or light weights, gluten-free diets, how elite ultra runners fuel their performance, risks of drinking aloe vera, secret to Usain Bolt’s speed, supplement risks for athletes, and more. Why lift heavy weights if you don’t have to? Research questions the dogma that heavy […]
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This Week in Food, Health, and Fitness
This week, read about burger love, cost benefits of cycling, recovery baths for athletes, belly fat, gluten and athletic performance, figuring out headaches, strength training for a faster 5k, the best guacamole, and an easy recipe for making your own energy bars. The caloric math of huge burgers. Prince Edward Island holds an annual month-long […]
This Week in Food, Health, and Fitness
This week, read about simplifying fitness, gluten sensitivity, salt and headaches, bogus health claims, women lifting weights, and more. Simplifying Fitness Julia Beluz (Vox.com) wrote an excellent piece this week about how we tend to overcomplicate exercise (We make exercise way too complicated. Here’s how to get it right). She summarizes and simplifies what we know into […]
Athletes Avoiding Gluten and Grains: Is There Good Evidence?
The gluten-free trend is a popular one, and many athletes have hopped on the bandwagon thinking it might improve their health, digestion, and athletic performance. People with celiac disease (about 1% of the population) need to absolutely avoid gluten because it damages their intestines; others believe they are “gluten sensitive,” which is a debatable condition that recent studies have […]