Junk Food
How Scientists Are Adding Scents to Health Foods to Make Them Taste Better
Taste and smell. They're different senses, but they’re more entwined than you might realize. That’s why researchers are now working on ways to use scent to improve the taste of [...]
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...
The Houston Astros Spend 4-Hour Rain Delay Devouring Junk Food, Win Game Anyway
What is a baseball player to do when he's faced with four continuous hours of rain delay and nothing to do but sit around and wait for it to end? [...]
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 [...]
These 5 Alarming Stats Show Just How Bad the Average American Eats
It’s an appropriate coincidence that the acronym for the Standard American Diet is SAD. Also known as the Western pattern diet, the SAD uses available data to estimate the diet [...]
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 [...]
How to Resist Junk Food Cravings
Just like athletes and fitness minded people need to focus on how they train, they should also make it a priority to support that effort with sound...
WATCH: Odell Beckham Jr. Reaches Supersonic Speed on a Treadmill
It’s the NFL off-season. Some players are eating junk food, lying on the couch and enjoying their vacation. But for others, the season never ends, and they continue to grind [...]
WATCH: New York Giants Running Back Rashad Jennings Was a 270-Pound Wrecking Ball in High School
[youtube video="1HscdVs-RoU"] It seems like an old highlight tape of a current NFL star emerges every other week. They always get labeled “insane!” or “amazing!”, but many of them aren’t [...]
Joel Embiid Teaches You How Not to Eat When You’re An Athlete
Once a standout at the University of Kansas, Joel Embiid has yet to play a single minute of NBA action. When the Philadelphia 76ers drafted him in 2014, they knew [...]
