You’re smart enough to realize that companies spend billions of dollars a year to grab your attention in hopes that you’ll reach for their product on the shelf, right? And you’re also smart enough to know that half the stuff they tell you is BS. So I don’t quite understand the ...
but it’s no joke. And it’s one of the most frequently overlooked aspects of adolescent health. With the proliferation of affordable smartphones, earbuds, mp3 players, and headphones, virtually everyone can listen to music anywhere.
Cherry juice, especially that of tart cherries is a great sleep aid when taken about a couple of hours before bedtime. A recent study found out that participants who drank tart cherry juice twice a day on an average slept 84 minutes more than those who didn’t. Tart cherry contains a goo...
I can honestly say I did NOTHING excessive or extreme for that contest prep. It was really a matter of using all of the knowledge I had gained along the way, knowing how my bodywould respondto specific training and nutrition techniques and being smart about what I was doing. And I was ...
She has a smart, perceptive take on the past 35+ years of nutrition recommendations from a unique perspective. Her post, “Low Fat, High Maintenance,” provides some insight as to why the low fat dietary approach really does “work” for some Americans–and really doesn’t work for many ...
In an auditorium full of really smart people, I cannot have been the only person thinking that W and his data looked a little over-exposed. But–as we saw with the circumstances revealed by the Ramsden and Zamora paper last week–it can be hard to contradict a famous colleague, and in ...
Eat breakfast no matter what.If you’re running in a super early race, wake up extra early to have a big breakfast, then go back to sleep for a bit. This way you’ll still reap the benefits of the nutrition, yet can get in a few extra hours of rest. (I thought this was a gen...
My only goal for the run was to get it done in less than three hours, and I did that and felt great doing it. I got into a really nice grove and just let the miles tick by as I took in my surroundings. It’s so awesome to think that on one run, I saw all of these things...
I saw myself in those other women, and also saw that—while they wrestled with their eating habits—they were still smart, responsible, conscientious, and not broken. They were more than their eating disorders. They were multi-faceted, complex. Maybe my eating disorder didn’t have to ...
I was surprised that I never got hungry for dinner, but when 8 o’clock rolled around I finally decided to eat something. I threw together a salad [basically a repeat fromlast nightplus a bit a creamy chevre]. I made a smart choice in eating dinner [like I would miss a meal!] beca...