Category: Nutrition
Watermelon prevents sore muscles
If you eat a couple of large chunks of watermelon before a heavy training session today, you'll have less problems with sore muscles tomorrow. Accordi [...]
Strength training improves cholesterol level
If overweight women take up weight training their cholesterol levels improve. The effect isn't overwhelming, but it's big enough to reduce their chanc [...]
Extra meat makes strength training more effective
People over 60 who do weight training will be slimmer and more muscular if they eat 150 g lean meat daily Australian sports scientists at Deakin Unive [...]
Obesity: Not just what you eat
To understand how obesity develops, researchers used state-of-the-art technology to analyze the accumulation of fat in the body at the cellular level, [...]
Precise reason for health benefits of dark chocolate
The health benefits of eating dark chocolate have been extolled for centuries, but the exact reason has remained a mystery - until now. Researchers re [...]
Cup of coffee reduces RSI arm pain
Of all those people whose work involves hours at a computer, ten percent complain of pain in their neck, shoulders and lower arm. Researchers at the N [...]
Animal study: cranberries are an anti-aging drug
Cranberry ~ Biologists at Clemson University in the US have discovered that an extract of cranberry has unusually strong life-extending properties. Cr [...]
10 Evidence-Based Health Benefits of Turmeric and Curcumin
Although most nutritional supplements are ineffective, this is not the case with turmeric.
Many high quality studies show that it has major benefits f [...]
Eating red, processed meat: What scientists say
Recent reports warn about a link between eating red and processed meat and the risk of developing cancer in the gut. These reports have resulted in ne [...]
Nutrition, probiotics key factors for digestive health
A healthy and balanced diet, as well as probiotics, have been known to be helpful in preserving gastrointestinal health for quite a long time. But it [...]
Whey only counteracts growth-reducing effect of alcohol a little
If you drink alcohol [structural formula on the right] after a training session it gets in the way of the anabolic processes taking place. Drinking a [...]
Abdominal fat accumulation prevented by unsaturated fat
New research shows that saturated fat builds more fat and less muscle than polyunsaturated fat. This is the first study on humans to show that the fat [...]
