Introducing Golden Turmeric: Your daily dose of antioxidants
Walk into almost any supplement store and you can find hundreds of products promising more energy, better recovery, bigger muscles, improved sleep, sharper thinking, better immunity, and even a longer life. The problem is that more supplements do not necessarily mean better health. In fact, the supplement industry can make nutrition unnecessarily complicated. One product
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A friend of mine recently made me think about one of the most persistent nutrition myths I hear: the idea that fruit is unhealthy because it contains too much sugar. I offered him some fresh pineapple, and his response was, “That’s too much sugar.” It really made me think about one of the most persistent
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For decades, people have been searching for the one nutrient responsible for weight gain. In the 1980s and 1990s, dietary fat was blamed for the growing obesity epidemic. Grocery stores filled their shelves with low-fat cookies, low-fat yogurt, and fat-free snacks. Then the conversation shifted, and carbohydrates became the new villain. More recently, protein has
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A few years ago, I crossed the finish line at the Irving Marathon, tired in the specific way you only get after 26.2 miles, and struck up a conversation with a friend of mine who happens to be a nutritionist. Naturally, I started picking her brain mostly about protein, since that’s the question every runner
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