Everyone knows apples are healthy. One of the reasons they are healthy is their high content of polyphenol antioxidants. Now there’s evidence that the polyphenols in apples not only enhance health but also reduce muscle damage caused by exercise - at least in rats. Japanese researchers fed a diet supplemented with apple polyphenols for three [...]

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By now we’ve all heard that there is a relationship between habitual sleep duration and body weight. There is strong evidence that chronic inadequate sleep causes weight gain, and there is also some evidence that people who sleep too much are fatter. So what is the optimal amount of sleep for weight management?
Researchers from [...]

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Does vitamin E supplementation protect the muscles against exercise-induced damage? It depends on whom you ask. The research keeps going back and forth. The latest study to look at the question, by Brazilian researchers, has yielded positive results. Twenty-one young male subjects were given either supplemental vitamin E or placebo for two weeks and then [...]

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One of the most sacred of sacred cows in sports nutrition is the idea that massive quantities of protein intake are required to maximizes the muscles gains resulting from weightlifting. Members of the bodybuilding and strength sports community cling to and defend this belief with savage intensity. Confessing your belief that massive quantities of protein [...]

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The dairy industry’s efforts to position milk as the next sports drink continue. The latest initiative is a study performed by researchers ar Deakin University (never heard of it either) and published in the Journal of Applied Physiology.
One hundred eighty middle-age and elderly men were recruited as subjects. They were separated into four groups. [...]

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The results of some past studies have suggested that glucosamine supplementation may slow the progression of osteoarthritis. But the results of a new study suggest that the those past studies may have produced erroneous data because they used a crude measure of joint cartilage status: namely, x-rays. The new study, conducted at the University of [...]

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Many athletes mistakenly believe that is it better to consume “complex carbs” than to consume simple sugars during exercise because complex carbs are metabolized more slowly and thus provide more lasting energy. In fact, because exercising muscles oxidize carbs much faster than they could ever be replaced by ingested carbs, it is best to consume [...]

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During intense exercise, the working muscles become more acidic. This phenomenon is believed to increase oxygen demand. Certain supplements are known to reduce muscular acidosis during exercise. One such supplement is beta-alanine, which the body uses as a component of the acid buffering compound carnosine in muscles.
Researchers from Ghent University in Belgium recently tried [...]

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The body burns a lot of fat during aerobic exercise. But whether fat-burning during exercise leads to lasting reductions in body fat depends on energy intake in the diet. In a new study, researchers investigated whether aerobic exercise result in 24-hour fat deficits when energy balance was maintained through the diet.
The study involved three [...]

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Past research be Asker Jeukendrup and colleagues at the University of Birmingham, England, found that athletes performed better in a cycling time trial when they periodically swished a sports drink around their mouths and spit it out than they did when they swished flavored water. Evidence from brain imaging suggested that carbohydrate mouth rinsing enhanced [...]

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