The best cuts and types of turkey, beef, chicken and fish While turkey is a top-shelf Powerfood, that doesn’t mean other meats are off-limits. The key is getting the leanest protein for the least amount of saturated fat. Turkey does the job exceptionally well, but only if you buy breast meat. Mixed ground turkey, usually [...]
20 secrets to eat what you love and still get the body you want By: Holly McCord & Virginia Leoni Moles As new college kids ditch home life for campus life, many of them face the dreaded freshman 15. But the sudden weight gain could affect any of us, as we pack away our bathing suits and [...]
Think Your Way To Thin Can’t-miss strategies for outwitting the 5 leading weight-loss traps for guys In prehistoric times, you would have emerged from a cave to survey the landscape for food. For survival, your brain would have urged devouring anything you could kill or uproot. Yet, when you weren’t out hunting sloths, you would [...]
Fifteen fired-up foods that can help you burn away the poundsBy: Brian Good The shortcut to losing weight? Fast food. Not the kind the clown and the King try to shove down our throats, but rather, edible amphetamines-foods that act like speed for the fat-melting motor known as our metabolism. Eat these foods and you’re [...]
Eat Right, Look Good Five foods that fight the effects of aging By: Brian Good If you plan to have great sex for the rest of your life, you want to look good doing it, right? Add a couple of servings a week of these fountain-of-youth foods. Sunflower seeds These salty wonders have the [...]
Real Meals, Real Fast If you have 15 minutes, you have time to make a healthy, nutritious dinner It’s 7:30 p.m. You’ve managed to escape the office alive (and without inflicting serious injury). You’ve hit the gym. And now, as the minutes tick by, the rumble of your stomach is almost enough to drown out [...]
The Post-Workout Meal by L.Labrada Have you ever experienced that drained feeling after a workout? Well, after recently completing an intense back workout I felt just this way. I had performed heavy bent-over rows, deadlifts, and shrugs, and I was a bit light-headed. Truth is, my stomach didn’t feel the best, either. The thought of [...]
Beating Exertion Headaches by Douglas Kalman MS, RD, FACN In life we are often told to be more “”efficient””. If you are efficient you do not waste energy, time, effort or much of anything. Think about it, someone that is efficient at say investing, often has more money in the literal bank than they do [...]
How Much Are You Eating? Easy ways to estimate serving sizes Doling out food portions for a recipe or a diet plan is always a crapshoot; we can barely tell 3 ounces from 10. Worse, we simply shovel down restaurant chow until we’re asked to leave. Nutritionists helped us compile a dozen [...]
Go Toward the Light The foods you love may be killing you. Elevate your eats by transforming them into muscle-building fuelIt’s a battle royale, with cheese. In one corner of your mind, there’s the satisfaction of that trim, hard body you’ve built. In the other, there’s the hamburger–juicy, tasty, covered with a blanket of melted [...]
