This week, read about how being active helps your body deal with simple carbs, the importance of physical activity for academic achievement, soup’s on, and more. Being Active Helps Your Body Deal with Simple Carbohydrates Gretchen Reynolds (New York Times) reported this week about a new study showing that walking 12,000 steps a day (about 6 […]
Category Archives: Sports Nutrition
This Week in Food, Health, and Fitness
This week, read about cooking-related pollutants, how ginger fights inflammation in runners, the clean-plate club, getting kids to eat veggies, and more. Cooking-Related Pollutants: Should You Worry? Did you know that cooking can dramatically affect your indoor air quality? Berkeley Wellness reviewed a recent Environmental Health Perspectives article “Take Care in the Kitchen: Avoiding Cooking-Related Pollutants.” Cooking, […]
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 […]
Healthy or Hype? Chocolate Milk for Recovery
The Claim Drinking chocolate milk after exercising will help you recover from your workout. The Evidence Chocolate milk contains fluid that you need after a workout, plus carbohydrates and protein in a ratio shown to enhance recovery (4 grams of carbohydrate for each gram of protein). The carbohydrates and added sugars in chocolate milk will help replenish glycogen […]