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Pro Plates: Dinner
Ending the day with a well-balanced meal ensures that your body will have the nutrients you need to perform or recover. NBA superstar Dwight Howard knows how a good, healthy dinner positively affects his performance, whether [...]
Understand Pre-Workout Nutrition to Fuel Awesome Workouts
For athletes, good nutrition is always important. However, healthy eating plays its most vital role before training sessions. Pre-workout meals can make or break you. Eat junk and you'll perform [...]
Diet Guidelines for Track and Field Runners
As a track and field runner, it's essential that you manage your diet. A sound strategy will give you the energy and nutrients you need to maximize your speed and endurance [...]
Healthy Eating for On-the-Go Athletes
As an athlete, you have a busy schedule, with days full of work or school, practice, lifting, team meetings and even double headers—not to mention tournament days, which can take anywhere [...]
Basic Post-Game Fueling Tips
The key to recovering after training or competition is knowing exactly what the body needs to repair itself. Don’t guess when it comes to your progress. Follow this post-game nutrition [...]
How to Eat Healthy and Lose Weight
We know that excess body weight can affect health and athletic performance. Thankfully, you can lose weight with healthy eating—and amp up your game. Although healthy eating is often considered [...]
Caution: Low-Carb Diets Are Not for Athletes
Low-carb diets, such as the Atkins Diet, have gained popularity in recent years amid growing concern about obesity and diabetes. As Americans, we tend to consume plenty of carb-based foods—like [...]
Eating Healthy on a Budget: Tips for Athletes
For athletes, eating healthy on a budget can be difficult. Athletes often need more calories, and therefore more food, than the general population. And training schedules keep them very busy, [...]
Keys to a Post-Game Meal
On the court, Dwight Howard is a beast among men. His size and strength make him a prodigious physical force in the lane and help power his signature dunks, which [...]
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 [...]