All About Beta-Alanine
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Beta-alanine supplementation may help buffer lactic acid and help with healing, muscle recovery, and muscle contraction. But for now, the evidence is mixed.
www.precisionnutrition.com/all-about-beta-alanine
Beta-alanine supplementation may help buffer lactic acid and help with healing, muscle recovery, and muscle contraction. But for now, the evidence is mixed.
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When leading a lifestyle to benefit the environment, you have to pick your battles. The good thing is that many of these environmentally friendly tips also help you save money. Everyone wins! Here are some popular strategies for conserving resources.
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Recent research has shown that exercise – alone – doesn’t have much of an impact on body composition. Even if you’re doing up to 5 hours a week. However, that doesn’t mean all hope is lost. When you combine exercise and the right nutritional intervention, the body fat seems to fly off.
www.precisionnutrition.com/lowering-cholesterol-a-3-step-plan-of-attack
Nowadays, at the first sign of high cholesterol, docs are putting people on statin drugs and other blood lipid lowering chemicals. And while these chemicals work pretty well, they come complete with a host of unwelcome side effects; side effects that can make managing your cholesterol a rocky road. Try these natural strategies for getting your cholesterol in check.
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You hear it all the time. Just eat a “balanced diet” and you should be fine. However, recent
research analyzing 70 diets has shown that every single one was deficient in 3 or more nutrients – with some diets being deficient in at least 15. Not good – but completely preventable.
www.precisionnutrition.com/battle-of-sweeteners
Is Splenda is as bad as some folks say it is. Can Aspartame cause cancer? Is the “all natural” sweetener, Stevia, a safe alternative to these “artificial” sweeteners. Find out here. In this article, a little research is mixed in with some common sense to arrive at a verdict.
www.precisionnutrition.com/incorporating-flax-into-diet
Lately the media has been spending a lot of time talking about “healthy, omega 3 fats.” And it’s
about time. Most people are woefully deficient. However, with media saturation, the finer points are often lost. Click here to read more about one great food source of the healthy, omega 3 fats.
www.precisionnutrition.com/what-you-should-know-about-tea
Nowadays, pretty much everyone has accepted that tea (especially the green kind) offers some tremendous health benefits. However, not everyone knows the other important stuff. Click here to learn what you don’t know about tea.
www.precisionnutrition.com/soy-latest-research
If one natural food source were to earn the title of “controversial food of the year” it’d likely be soy. So we turned to the research. We interviewed a host of soy experts on both sides of the fence. And from our research, we wrote this article. Hopefully it helps you sort through the big soy protein controversy, leaving you with some practical strategies for soy consumption.
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Nutrigenomics: The study of how genes and nutrients interact. Until recently, I knew this field of science was an exciting area that would someday change the future of nutrition, medicine, and more.
However, in my mind all this crazy gene-nutrient stuff was for the future. Boy was I wrong.
www.precisionnutrition.com/whey-protein-allergies-intolerances-bloating
While this might surprise you, there are many folks who suffer allergies or intolerance to traditional protein supplements. Heck, you might be one of them and not even know it! To read more about your protein powder and whether or not it’s time for a change, click this link.
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Carter Schoffer is a strength and conditioning coach living in London, Ontario, and the former Director of Sports Nutrition and Performance for Precision Nutrition. And today we talk body transformation with a guy responsible for thousands of them.
www.precisionnutrition.com/get-bodybuild-style-lean-thibaudeau
Here’s a sample diet plan from Christian Thibaudeau, a top strength coach whose methods have heavily influenced our style of training around here (although we do differ from time to time) and who is a high level competitive bodybuilder in Canada. If you’re trying to get super-lean, you’ve got to learn to progressively drop your calories. And Christian’s plan illustrates that perfectly.
www.precisionnutrition.com/interview-brain-diet-alan-logan
A few weeks back, at a small research meeting in Toronto, Ontario, my good friend Dr. Alan Logan handed me a book I hadn’t heard of before. “What’s this, Alan…The Brain Diet? Doesn’t sound all that appetizing.” Amused, Dr Logan went on to tell me that I was seeing a sneak peek of his book discussing how nutrition can impact both brain and body health.