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ϳԹ staffers share their thoughts, feelings, and angry mid-workout musings on the endurance sports world's favorite fuel
For big projects, I need food that’s tasty, packable, and calorically dense. These blended bars are my answer.
You don't need to scour the shelves for "healthy" foods. Sometimes the processed stuff is best.
These athlete-approved dishes deliver maximum nutrition per bite, so you're fueling with every forkful
Sure, it's old fashioned. But it's also nutritional rocket fuel, and athletes are making it taste great. Here's how.
Your most pressing backcountry food safety questions, answered
In a world dominated by the super sweet, these saltier, crunchier products are taking a stand
For many, the female athlete triad has stood in the way of lasting success in sports, but researchers are finally starting to understand the condition better—and help women avoid the long-term consequences
Your nutrition is just as important as your training. Don't take bad advice on how to perfect it.
Making healthy meals while traveling doesn't have to be hard
Learning to eat simply—and well—and cook without a mess on the road
The story of how a confectionary mishap helped Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reach the world's most famous summit
During intense training, it's easy to let good nutrition fall to the wayside, but it's also the most important time to get fueling right. Here's how to do it.
The counterintuitive theory has pervaded books, studies, and Reddit threads and is something of a rally cry for LCHF converts. But while there may be some benefit to monitoring insulin levels, there's no need to cut out all carbs quite yet.
John and Jen Kimmich, creators of Heady Topper Double IPA, break down all that goes into starting a successful microbrewery
Your simple guide to using the supplement the right way
Keto, paleo, vegan, and more—we've got you covered. A few key adjustments to these basic nutrition programs ensure you can tackle heavy-effort loads and still fuel the way you want.
Quinoa, bananas, and peanut butter are recurring characters, but add a little more flavor (and nutrition) to the plot by tossing in these surprising purchases
Your burger and bacon may have a surprising new ingredient
Growing research debunks the myth that the paleo movement replicates the diet of our ancestors. Here's what they were actually eating.
Cory Richards and Adrian Ballinger summited the highest mountain in the world last month—Ballinger without supplemental oxygen. Here's how they trained their minds and bodies to accomplish one of mountaineering's most difficult feats.
A new cookbook explains how to feed your hungry family or a group of marathoners without calorie-dense meats
Among other things: potatoes are the shit, junk food is OK, and everything you know about serving sizes is wrong
It won't solve all your health problems, but it might make your life a bit better
The good news? They're all pretty simple to reverse—or prevent entirely.
Watch to learn the basics of of this new nutrition trend before trying out the fat-fueled keto diet.
This salty snack has taken center stage as a healthy, protein-laden endurance fuel
To visualize what the most popular diets in America really look like, we built our own pyramids. Here's what a day on the fat-first ketogenic diet should look like.
Turns out extending your lifespan is pretty damn easy. Just follow these definitive, scientific, time-tested methods.
The Paleo Diet, which consists of eating only what our distant ancestors might have eaten, has become one of the most popular nutrition trends over the past 10 years.
Your next recovery meal comes in a bowl of power ramen
One of the leading labs in health and food science is under fire for shoddy research. The implications for the science community and journalists who report on the field are vast. But how much does the research matter for the average person?
Proposed legislation wants to ban the word 'milk' for anything but dairy products, which got us thinking: what actually is milk?
It seems like once a week there's a new study pointing to the potential health properties of beer. We decided to investigate.
After more than 40 years as an athlete and coach, it pains me to see people latch onto fitness fads, and I want to clear a few things up
Blood analysis! Fat burning! Centenarians and pockets full of bacon! All that, plus six more of the biggest fitness trends from this year.
The healthiest items to order when you’re stuck with nothing but McDonalds or Wendy's
South African physician Tim Noakes, one of the world’s greatest sports scientists, has been preaching an ultra-low-carb, high-fat diet as the key to fitness and health. His ideas have made him a bestselling guru, but now his critics are pushing back—and as Bill Gifford reports, they’re putting his theories on trial.
The 'Chile Pepper Bible' will have you grabbing for holy water as you fan the flames in your mouth
Some athletes swear by a once-a-week indulgence. Are they right?
Stay fueled without feeling stuffed with one of these quick-and-easy options
It's your final chance of the day to recover from training and to prep muscles for tomorrow's adventure. Follow the lead of these eight athletes.
What does a typical Kenyan diet look like and why is it effective for fueling runners?
Do we really need special diets in order to increase our performance? As it turns out, best runners in the world eat remarkably similar to everyone else in their culture.
The most common, performance-defeating nutrition mistakes—and how to fix them
Protein powders, fortified beverages, and wholesome-sounding snacks may seem like the best way to fuel your body, but the sports nutrition business also has a not-so-healthy side.
The weight-loss industrial complex keeps pumping out diets, but a new study suggests it's time to radically rethink our approach to eating—and refocus on the basics
The difference between hitting the summit and hitting the wall comes down to the fuel in your belly.
This simple formula is seemingly impossible to master. So how does Kelly Slater do it year after year? And how can you?