Powered by the Cleveland Clinic Make your vitamin D supplement work even harder. Taking it with your biggest meal of the day boosts the vitamin’s absorption. Not getting enough vitamin D? Instead of taking it on an empty stomach or with a light meal, down your vitamin D supplement with the biggest meal of the [...]
Powered by Cleveland Clinic Stay full for longer: Include protein and complex carbs in every meal and snack. Think peanut butter on toast or turkey-Swiss roll-ups. When it comes to successful dieting, what you eat is just as important as how much you eat. That’s because the two often go hand in hand. Choosing foods [...]
SportsOneSource Media The percentage of obese girls in the United States increased more than twice as much as the percentage of obese boys from 2003 to 2007, according to a study by researchers at the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). The study, Changes in State-Specific Childhood Obesity and Overweight Prevalence in the United States [...]
Pre-Workout If your last meal was more than five hours ago, have a 100- to 200-calorie snack 30 minutes before your workout. Liquids digest faster, so try milk, juice, Gatorade, or half a smoothie (keep it low-cal by choosing plain, low-fat yogurt and fruit and skipping syrups, powders, and other additions). Mid-Workout You need a [...]
SportsOneSource Media Two-thirds of Division I college football linemen studied were obese, putting them at significant risk for metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance compared with players at other positions, according to new research from the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM). High levels of physical activity—shown to help prevent obesity, diabetes and other chronic [...]
Over the last few years, high profile brands such as EAS, OneSource, Gatorade, and Cytosport, have come out with recovery and regeneration products to assist athletes refuel and rebuild after high intensity training. It has become obvious, that the limiting factor in high level training programs, is proper recovery techniques that allow athletes the [...]
Digesting food and drink is calorie-burning work; it’s called the “thermic effect.” But sugary soft drinks cause less calorie burn than beverages that contain a blend of nutrients. Researchers at New York City’s St. Luke Hospital gave 20 patients either sugar water or a beverage containing a mixture of protein, fat and carbohydrate, like chocolate [...]
Skip the Diet Coke. Tea may be the ultimate weight-loss drink. When Taiwanese researchers studied more than 1,100 people over a 10-year period, they determined that those who drank black, green, or oolong tea one or more times a week had 20 percent less body fat than those who drank none. “Tea extracts may decrease [...]
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