Got Chocolate Milk? Triathlon Team Happy to Recover and Party Drinking Cow Juice
By Jim Morris, The Canadian Press It used to be their guilty little secret. Who knew it was good for them? After a hard workout, Olympic champion Simon Whitfield and other top Canadian triathletes would sit around and pour back a few cartons of chocolate milk. “We have been doing it for years, thinking we were rebels,” Whitfield said with a chuckle during a recent telephone... Read More
Can You Be an Endurance Athlete and Primal?
Courtesy of Mark Sisson of Mark’s Daily Apple: By now you know I have a biased point of view that rigorous endurance training is antithetical to health. Yes, I competed and loved it for 20 years, so I get the appeal it has for so many, but these days my personal focus is on maintaining the highest level of fitness and health on the least amount of work and sacrifice. I want... Read More
99 Ways to Save Money on Food
Mark from the Mark’s Daily Apple Blog has recently written a great post on how to save money on feed. 99 ways to be exact. A selection of our favorite ones are listed below: Shop the perimeter. Don’t buy processed/branded food items. Don’t buy things just because they are cheap. If you don’t end up using it no matter how cheap it was it’s lost money. Don’t shop... Read More
It’s Time to Make a Coffee Run
Written by Gina Kolata and published in the New York Times, March 25, 2009 =============== WELDON JOHNSON first tried caffeine as a performance enhancer in 1998. He was not a coffee drinker but had heard that caffeine could make him run faster. So he went to a convenience store before a race and drank a cup of coffee. For the first time in his life, he ran 10 kilometers in less... Read More
Study Zeroes In on Calories, Not Diet, for Loss
From the New York Times — For people who are trying to lose weight, it does not matter if they are counting carbohydrates, protein or fat. All that matters is that they are counting something. This is what researchers from Boston have found and have reported in a recently published study in the New England Journal of Medicine. In summary, more than 800 overweight adults were... Read More
The World’s Healthiest Countries
Mark Sisson (of Mark’s Daily Apple ) has just posted a very interested article on some of the world’s healthiest countries and what we can learn from them. ====== More than anything, the Primal Blueprint is a pragmatic approach to diet and lifestyle. It is not dogma; rather, it is based on empirical evidence suggesting that following the diet and many lifestyle behaviors... Read More
Energy Drinks
Mark Sisson over at The Daily Apple (a great nutrition blog by the way) has written a post on energy drinks and the danger they can pose (think too much sugar, coffee and other stimulants). The first couple of paragraphs are included below, if you want to read the full post please visit his blog here . ===== It’s impossible to walk through a bar, college campus, city park, gym(!),... Read More
Refined damnation – A war with sugar
The following was written from Christopher Kelsall and originally posted on Flotrack . Thanks again Chris! ================ As I understand it and because I may have made this up, for us long distance runners, each pound we are over our optimum weight, we are penalized 2 seconds per-mile when racing. If my calculations stand up to the scrutiny and you happen to be in the unfortunate... Read More
Lauren’s super little system
Victoria athlete packs pill that’s said to ease stress and boost endurance Paul Luke, The Province Olympic athletes groaning under the weight of overstuffed suitcases may envy Victoria’s Lauren Groves when she arrives in Beijing this week for the triathlon. Groves will be lighter on her feet than rival triathletes who have crammed dozens of bottles of vitamins and minerals... Read More
Don’t be afraid to take a stroll in the pasta aisle
Written by Leslie Beck and published in Wednesday’s Globe and Mail (March 12, 2008) It’s a meal that’s long been a favorite of kids, athletes and connoisseurs of Italian cuisine. Even weight-conscious Canadians, no longer cutting carbohydrates from their diet, are eating it more often. Judging by the proliferation of pasta choices in the grocery store, this high-carb... Read More
The BS factor
A great article (or rant if you want to call it that) written by Chris Kelsall (here’s a link to his blog). A warning however, it may be considered offensive – reader discretion recommended. =========================================== The B$ factor explodes this time of year; wicked fulminations of unadulterated bovine excrement are disgorged, exciting the masses. Myths... Read More
Energy bars to order?
With These Nutrition Bars, Every Order Is Special An article written by Lisa Napoli and published February 20, 2008 in the New York Times. At You Bar’s kitchen in Los Angeles, Marcia Monterroza, a worker, and Dennis and Anthony Flynn. Anthony and his mother are the owners. AVA BISE and Anthony Flynn share more than a typical mother and son: a birthday, a love of healthy food and... Read More
