For peak performance every day, athletically and otherwise, the human body requires water. Our cells, bones, organs, and muscles count on sufficient hydration to function…
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Category: Nutrition for Fitness Training
The Nutrisense Tool: Monitoring Blood Sugar
When it comes to helping clients get results that benefit them physically and mentally, it takes more than a discussion about calories in versus calories…
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Ketone Applications: Moving Beyond Fat-Burning and Towards Healing
Accumulating evidence suggests that any athletically-inclined individual can benefit from a shift of energy metabolism toward the utilization of ketone bodies. However, the good news…
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What’s Behind Food Cravings?
All humans have food cravings. Some cravings are sweet, some savory, and others salty. For some people, cravings can be specific and consistent, or bizarre…
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Cholesterol: What It Is and How Aerobic Exercise Affects It
While leading an active life is beneficial to overall health, aerobic exercise specifically helps the human body to maintain a healthy cholesterol profile. Before getting…
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Outdated Nutrition Advice Personal Training Clients Should Ignore
Personal trainers can clearly see how trends in nutrition come and go as swiftly as trends in fashion. A quick internet search or social media…
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Added Sugar: Hiding in Plain Sight
Diet culture would have us believe that “sugar is evil” which is not accurate to the degree that diet culture messaging would have us believe.…
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Fasted Exercise: What the Research Says About Fasting and Athletic Training
The two main reasons people cite for exercising in a fasted state generally relate to weight loss and/or anti-aging benefits. While studies often show data…
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Gut Health, Weight Loss, and the NU-AGE Mediterranean Diet
Personal trainers preach that healthy insides, accomplished through clean eating, lead to improved overall health. Now conclusive research points to how improving one’s diet may…
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Eating To Reduce Hypertension: Plant-Based, DASH, or Very Low Carb Meal Plans?
Adults living with high blood pressure (a reading higher than 140/90 mm Hg) often present with a host of comorbidities, most often pre-diabetes/type 2 diabetes,…
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Can Ice Cream Help Diabetics Reduce Cardiovascular Risks?
Recent research has surprised scientists and befuddled nutrition experts by announcing a data-based finding that diabetics consuming ½ cup of ice cream have a lowered…
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The Gut Microbiome and Our Health
Perhaps the time-worn expression “having a gut feeling” holds more potency than any of us realized. Studies of the intestinal gut microbiome reveal how disturbances…
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