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Daily Tip: Peri Workout Nutrition

For a simple answer, however, I suggest starting out by sipping 0.8g of carbohydrate/kg and 0.4g of protein/kg diluted in somewhere around 1L of water (5; 17-20).

Interesting Sources of Protein

If you aren’t adverse to seafood, reach beyond the everyday salmon and tuna to try swordfish. Often sold in thick, round filets that resemble a white and pink pie chart as a result of the wedge-shaped section removed during cleaning, they’re great for grilling during the warmer summer months. Try wiping a thin coat of [...]

Top 6 Foods to Help You Sleep

We know that certain foods give you energy, but did you know that there are foods that can help you sleep? Here’s the scientific bit: typtophan is an amino acid that is used to create serotonin, a neurotransmitter that slows down nerve traffic, thus aiding relaxation. Vitamin B6 helps convert tryptophan into serotonin. With this [...]

Sugar by any other name…

These are all different names for all the sugars that are listed in your prepackaged foods on the shelf at most grocery stores. Just to give you a heads up on just how much refined sugar we are actually taking in… NOTE: I am not including ingredients that include the word “sugar” in them, like [...]

Are Energy Drinks Hazardous to Your Health?

I am a real Paul Check fan. This is one of his better posts that hit right home with the large amount of youth athletes that we train and we see these drinks all the time. Soft drinks are bad enough with all the phosphoric acid content but these really are a double whammy. I [...]

Top 30 SuperFoods

The 30 Superfoods 1. Lean Red Meat (93% lean, top, round, sirloin) Fatigue, memory Beef has gotten a bad rap, probably because so many cuts of beef are drenched in saturated fat, the bad fat that clogs a woman’s arteries and leads to heart disease, colon cancer, and other ills. But, extra-lean beef has a [...]

(BV) Biological Value = Hype or Help?

One of the forms of technobabble in the supplement business involves BV (biological value). BV is an experimental approach used to determine the quality of food protein. Technically, protein quality is a function of amino-acid content, specifically, essential amino acids. However, there is more to protein metabolism than simply the amino-acid profile. Digestibility and utilization [...]

Recommended Resource – BuyBulkWhey.com

Just talked to Andy Slagle with BuyBulkWhey.com and I was very impressed with his knowledge and his passion for giving a high quality product for a low price with no chemicals, no MSG, no preservatives, and no artificial flavorings or sweeteners. I asked him what was the difference about his whey than all the others [...]

Snake Oil? Health Food Supplements Information Database

If you are a health buff or conscious about what you eat or take in, you will find this web app useful. Snake Oil is a health supplements information graph that shows the human health benefits of different substances. It shows the most popular and promising food supplements plotted in a graph so that you [...]

Fat Loss Tip: The Other Thermogenics…

A great source of non-ephedrine based thermogenic fat burners – green tea extract and cayenne pepper. Most of the weight loss research has used a dosage of around 300-400 mg EGCG or extracts containing about the same amount. This is the equivalent to around 3-4 cups of green tea daily, although the catechin content varies [...]

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