If you’re an athlete who leans toward strenuous workouts, whether you pound the pavement or fly down black diamond ski slopes, it is time to tweak your recovery, sports nutritionists say.
The long-held belief from the late 1960s encouraging avid exercisers and elite athletes to rehydrate and to reload with carbohydrates is passé. Protein has muscled [...]
Archive for February 13th, 2009
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Muscles Want Protein, Not Carbs
Written by Slim | Date: February 13, 2009 1:34 pm | Permalink | Category: Diet BlogComments (0) -
If superstition has its way to day, it will be a bad one for us all. The number 13 and Friday are both considered “bad luck,” and when they come together to create Friday the 13th, trouble is bound to find us. So we all know to avoid black cats, broken mirrors and walking under [...]
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Is Your Own Food Fresher Than Shop Food?
Written by Slim | Date: 8:38 am | Permalink | Category: Diet BlogFlickr: fried lemon pieIf you ran into the supermarket to buy some milk and every row of 2%, 1%, low-fat and whole, all had sell-by dates of today, you wouldn’t buy it, it’s not fresh!
But if that same cartoon of milk or moldy block of cheese or stale bread or wilted lettuce was in your [...]