In the past, when we have discussed nutrition on this blog, it was usually to make a point about wellness. See, for example, my post “Diet and Your Immune System.” But diet means more than wellness. It can dramatically affect athletic performance, too. So this time I want to look at calories for performance. Considering Read more…
Calories for Performance
Your Body Composition
Your body consists of skin, organs, muscle, bones, water, and fat. But most people, when they think about body composition, limit their consideration to two broad constituents: that which is fat and that which is not fat. This is only partly because of our beauty obsessed culture. The truth is that your ability to control Read more…
Healthy Weight Awareness Week
The third week in January is National Healthy Weight Awareness Week. I haven’t been able to discover who originally designated it as such. But I did come across a source that said the week has been observed yearly since 1994. YOUR Healthy Weight According to Consumer Health Digest, one of the drivers of Healthy Weight Read more…
Prioritize Wellness in 2021
What a disaster the year 2020 has been for public health. Millions of people have sickened with Covid-19, and hundreds of thousands have died. But it has even been hard on those who haven’t caught the virus. Largely trapped in our homes and unable to be with friends and family, many of us have “fought” Read more…