Low-Carbohydrate Diets Harm Athletic Performance
A study of elite race walkers shows that a low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet will slow their race times and training. Your muscles burn primarily fat and carbohydrates for energy. You have enough fat stored in your body to exercise for many days. However, you can store only 1600-2000 calories worth of sugar (carbohydrate) in your muscles and liver, and will start to run out of your meager supply of sugar after 70 minutes of intense exercise.
Eat to Compete
What you eat before and during a major competition can affect your performance enough to give you an edge over your peers. The days of “carbohydrate loading” are gone, but now athletes are being lured to try the LCHF fad — a low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet.
Tom Fleming, Marathoner Who Out-Trained Everyone Else
How could Tom Fleming have died of a heart attack at the very young age of 65, when at one time, he was one of the best marathon runners in the world? Fleming won the New York City Marathon twice, finished second in the Boston Marathon twice, won the Jersey Shore Marathon three times, and also the Los Angeles, Toronto, Tokyo, Washington, Cleveland and Jersey Shore Marathons.
Vitamin D Recommendations
Less than six percent of North Americans suffer from vitamin D deficiency, but nearly 20 percent take vitamin D pills. It is true that it is difficult to get adequate levels of vitamin D from sunshine during the winter months, but vitamin D is not a miracle vitamin that treats and prevents all sorts of diseases.
Cancer-Causing HPV Found in 20 Percent of U.S. Adults and Teens
Human Papilloma Viruses (HPV) that cause cancers of the mouth and sexual organs are the most common sexually-transmitted diseases in the United States today, infecting 20 percent of people under age 60.
Treat Diabetes with Diet and Exercise
Diabetes can be treated and often cured with exercise that removes fat from muscles and diets that remove fat from the liver and other organs.
No Amount of Overweight is Healthful
Researchers at Boston University and Harvard reviewed three studies following more than 225,000 adults over age 50, for eight to twenty years, and showed that being even slightly overweight can increase your risk of dying by six percent, and in those who are obese, by...
Auto-Immune Diseases and Inflammation
Several recent articles suggest that inflammation associated with a faulty diet, lack of exercise, overweight and lack of vitamin D increases risk for autoimmune diseases. There is no strong evidence yet to show that any diet will cure auto-immune disease.
Cheese and Yogurt are OK, but Milk is a High Sugar Drink
Milk is a high-sugar drink. We know that D-galactose, a sugar found in milk, causes the same oxidative damage and chronic inflammation that is associated with diabetes, heart attacks, certain cancers and bone loss.
Night-Time Urination May Be Caused by Excess Salt
One in three North American adults have to get up to urinate more than twice a night, and a study presented at the European Society of Urology shows that the most common cause may be taking in too much salt.