Healthy Foods
These 5 Foods Will Improve Your Health
What you eat directly affects processes in your body that lead to aging and dysfunction. Improved body composition, mental clarity, sharper focus, and...
Denver Nuggets Strength Coach Steve Hess Explains How Basketball Players Should Eat
When it comes to the game of basketball at the highest competitive levels, it's much more than practice (place your Allen Iverson joke here). Basketball...
This App Boils a Food’s Nutrition Down to a Single Number. Can it Help You Eat Healthier?
Nutrition is all about numbers. Carbs, calories, fats, micros, macros, daily values, serving sizes—every food carries a dizzying amount of data along with it. For the average American, it can [...]
Why Athletes Never Seem To Endorse Healthy Products
Celebrities sell. A 2011 study in the Journal of Advertising Research found that an athlete endorsement results in an average increase of four percent in product sales. If we see [...]
Why Exclusionary Diets Like Paleo Are Problematic
Diets are a tricky—and often touchy—subject. Some swear by certain ways of eating, while detractors point to flaws in an eating strategy. Most recently, the Paleo diet seems to be [...]
3 Tips to Eat Healthy on a Budget
Who likes spending their entire paycheck at the grocery store? Advertisers and big businesses will lead you to believe that expensive foods are the...
Beyond Weight Loss: 4 Reasons to Eat Healthy
Eating healthy will help you lose weight or maintain your weight if you're already in shape. But weight loss alone may not be enough to motivate you to eat healthy. [...]
Losing Weight Without Going to Extremes
Eating healthy foods and avoiding burgers and ice cream—good nutrition practice, but not necessarily an effective weight loss program. You might lose a few pounds in the beginning, but you could [...]
Valuable Cost-Efficient Sports Nutrition Tips
Building muscle and gaining or losing weight for your sport is not cheap. You can train in your school gym, so that's a freebie (unless you also have a gym [...]
YOU Docs: Q&A on Healthy vs. Unhealthy Foods
What are healthy foods versus unhealthy foods? Healthy: Lean protein: turkey, skinless chicken, fish Unsaturated fats: olives and olive oil, fish oil, organic peanut butter, hummus, avocados, omega-3 fatty acids [...]