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The Best Foods for Digestive Health
If you've ever taken antibiotics or struggled with common digestive issues like constipation and diarrhea, then your digestive tract has taken a...
Brain Food
Foods rich in brain-healthy nutrients can help you excel in the classroom and on the field. Try one of these mind-mending items at breakfast to fire up your brain synapses [...]
Eating Healthy for Training Camp
Think you're ready for early-morning tryouts and grueling practices and scrimmages for your fall sport? Even if your off-season workouts got you in shape for training camp, bad nutritional habits [...]
Diet Guidelines for Teenage Tennis Players
If you've just gotten off the court after a morning of playing tennis, you might be temped to stop at the nearest fast food restaurant and order a feast, figuring [...]
Why Everything You Think You Know About Carbs Is Wrong
Here’s what you think you know about carbohydrates and the glycemic index (GI). High-glycemic carbs (like white breads, white pastas, and sugary candy) go through your body and reach your [...]
Don’t Become a Statistic: Eat Healthy
How many times are you told to "eat your fruits and vegetables?" Well, according to an October report from the Journal of Nutrition, 88% of Americans fail to heed this advice. [...]
Make Sure You’re Getting Enough Calcium
We need calcium for growth. From our adolescent years through our early 20s, our bones calcify to their thickest, strongest state. Healthy bones protect organs and allow muscles to grow [...]
Keep Iron Levels High for Optimum Performance
Low iron levels are fairly common among distance runners, but what does this really mean? Iron deficiency, or anemia, is a condition is which the body is unable to replace [...]
Fact or Myth: Is High Fructose Corn Syrup The Worst Sweetener of Them All?
Americans are pretty remarkable. We invented Facebook and Google, we put men on the moon and we have the best colleges and universities in the world. Yet many of us [...]
Running a Marathon? Your Fueling Questions Answered
Marathon season is in full swing, and many of my clients have come to me with nutrition questions for their big race. If you’re running a marathon soon, you should [...]