Running on Empty: Refueling After Competition Vital to Maintaining Performance
... Failure to eat well after a competition – refueling your energy stores and replacing lost nutrients – will result in fatigue and a sluggish performance in future competitions, and contribute to a decl...

High Performance Nutrition for the Athlete
... What is high performance nutrition?High performance nutrition is a healthy eating plan that helps you perform at your best. It includes a variety of foods from the Food Guide Pyramid. High performance...

Should Everyone Over Age 75 Take a Multivitamin?
... From the Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine Cindy Moore, MS, RD, LD, FADA, Director, Nutrition Therapy, Cleveland Clinic Should everyone over age 75 take a multivitamin? Age should not be the sole c...

Reducing Fat Intake
... Why is it important to reduce fat intake? High fat intake also contributes to excess body weight, since a gram of fat has about twice as many calories per gram as carbohydrates and proteins. Being ove...

Fad Diets
... There are literally hundreds of different diets that have at one time or another been promoted as the best approach to losing weight. Unfortunately, most of them, in their efforts to succeed, involve ...

Maximizing Output: An Athlete''s Guide to Nutrition
... Maximizing performanceThere are three main macronutrients and many vitamins and minerals that will help you maximize your athletic performance. Carbohydrates, fats and protein are essential to good he...

Sports Nutrition
... CarbohydratesCarbohydrates are the primary fuel for muscles and the brain. One gram of carbohydrates provides 4 calories. Sources include pasta, rice, potatoes, grains, bread, fruits and sweets. There...

Your Summer Tune-Up
... It''s summertime. My favorite season. Whenever summer comes around, I wish for a new car. A convertible to be exact. Something I can drive around in all day with the wind blowing through my hair. If I...

Choosing the Right Nutritional Supplement
... Good nutrition is very important. Sometimes eating foods alone is not enough to meet your nutritional needs. A variety of nutritional supplements are available to help you meet your calorie, protein a...

Fiber Facts: Increasing Fiber in Your Diet
... Food fibers are that part of plant foods that are not digested when eaten. Some types of fiber may have a cholesterol-lowering effect which could lead to reduced risk of heart disease. Fiber may also ...

McDonalds, Atkins and Other Nutrition Bewilderments
... A Cleveland Clinic dietitian gives advice on safe weight loss, healthy eating and the new dietary guidelines. Recently, McDonald’s announced they were reducing the amount of trans fats used in cooking...

Nutrition Guidelines to Improve Wound Healing
... Good nutrition is necessary for healing. During the healing process, the body needs increased amounts of calories, protein, vitamins A and C, and sometimes, the mineral, zinc. The following guidelines...

The Fiber Lifestyle
... Food fibers are the part of plant foods that are not digested when eaten. Some types of fiber may have a cholesterol-lowering effect, which could lead to reduced risk of heart disease. Fiber may also ...

Types of Fat
... Fat supplies the body with vitamins A, D, E, and K. It also provides the body with energy for daily activities. However, too much fat in the diet can lead to blocked arteries causing heart attacks and...

What’s the Scoop on Flaxseeds?
... The use of flax is gaining credibility in fighting the battle against many health conditions such as cancer, arthritis, diabetes, and menopause. Even more promising is the role of flax in combating he...

High Carbohydrate Diets
... Carbohydrates and exerciseEating enough carbohydrates is one of the most important strategies you can use to improve your exercise performance. Carbohydrates are your body''s main energy source during...

High Protein Diets
... This guide provides basic information to help the athlete understand positive and negative effects of high protein diets. Protein is a needed part of the diet. Proteins main purpose in the body is bui...

The Lowdown on Low Carbs
... In America recently, the new road to weight loss has been paved with high-protein, low-carb diets. In the past few years, an estimated 32 million carb-conscious Americans began taking cues from the we...

Soy: Health Claims for Soy Protein, Questions About Other Components
... by John Henkel Vegetarians and health enthusiasts have known for years that foods rich in soy protein offer a good alternative to meat, poultry, and other animal-based products. As consumers have purs...

PREGNANCY AND A HEALTHY DIET
... When you become pregnant, what you eat isn't only important for your own health, but for the health of your baby. Healthy foods are the building blocks for your growing baby since pregnancy is a c...

A Healthy Diet
... Having a healthy diet is one of the most important things you can do to help your overall health. Along with physical activity, your diet is the key factor that affects your weight. Having a healthy w...

Preguntas Frecuentes acerca de una Dieta Saludable
... Tener usa dieta saludable es una de las cosas más importantes que puede hacer para mantener su buena salud en general. Su dieta, junto con la actividad física, es el factor principal que afecta su pes...

Highlights of FDA Food Safety Efforts: Fruit Juice, Mercury in Fish
... By Raymond Formanek Jr. Strict rules for egg producers and makers of fruit or vegetable juices, and consumption limits for pregnant women and women considering pregnancy on fish containing high levels...

Folic Acid
... Folic acid is one of the B vitamins. Folate, the natural form of folic acid, is found in orange juice, other citrus fruits and juices, leafy green vegetables, beans, peanuts, broccoli, asparagus, peas...

Cooking Up the New Food Label
... by Judith E. Foulke Reading the new food labels required on almost all foods will make planning healthy diets easier for consumers. Writing the regulations that spell out what should be on those label...

Good Reading for Good Eating
... by Paula Kurtzweil It may not have the power of a Pulitzer prize-winning novel or the luridness of a checkout counter tabloid, but the new food label still promises to make for good reading. New regul...

Ingredient Labeling: What''s in a Food?
... by Marian Segal Mr. Doodle can call his hat whatever he likes. Pasta makers, however, have long had to be very specific about what they call "macaroni." That's because since shortly afte...

Nutrition in Cancer Care
... Nutrition plays major (but not always fully understood) roles in many aspects of cancer development and treatment. Of cancer-related deaths, 20% to 40% may result from nutritional status rather than t...

Nutritional Info Available for Raw Fruits, Vegetables, Fish
... by Paula Kurtzweil Customers of D'Agostino Supermarkets in New York have taken to reading the writing on the wall--and at the counter, in the aisles, and just about everywhere else that store mana...