Nutrition

Search through hundreds of articles packed with nutritional advice! Here Ben Greenfield unveils the real facts about nutrition and recommends healthy food choices for controlling a diet. This food guide can help anyone looking to lose weight or maximize fat loss. Athletes can also benefit by removing the guesswork from optimizing nutrition for a great performance.

Seven Enchanting, Strange & New Gifts For Active People To Make Their Lives Better.

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In my constant quest to discover new techniques for recovery, nourishment, and movement optimization, I’m frequently stumbling across methods for the slightly geeky (but cutting-edge) active people to quench the insatiable thirst for the best methods, no matter how wacky or hard-to-pronounce, to biohack or improve the human body.

So here are seven of the latest enchanting, strange and new gifts for active people I’ve discovered. If you have a birthday or holiday coming up for a friend, family or loved one who is a triathlete, weekend warrior, Crossfitter or recreational sports enthusiast, you’re sure to find something on this list to keep them happy. Or alternatively, you can just grab any of the items below for your own selfish and nefarious needs.

By the way, right after I publish this post, I’m off to race in the Wildflower Triathlon Squared event, which is two, brutal, back-to-back triathlons! Stay tuned to my Facebook page to predict my combined race times, win cool prizes, see my pre and post-bloodwork results and much more!

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How Much Fiber To Eat, Where To Get Your Fiber, And Is Fiber Really Killing Your Insides?

April 10, 2013

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A couple months ago, I published an extremely controversial guest article: “Is Fiber Bad For You? The Top 12 Myths And The Real Truth About Whether Fiber Is Killing Your Insides.“ 96 comments later, it still seems some confusion persists about exactly how much fiber to eat, where to get your fiber, and whether fiber [...]

Discover The Fastest Way To Get A Better Body, Enhance Performance, Cut Through Diet Confusion, Blast Body Fat & Live Longer…

April 5, 2013

It’s time to cut through all the useless diets, workouts, supplements, drugs, books and plans – and instead find out what really works when it comes to losing fat fast, performing at your peak potential, living longer, and having the energy the way your body is supposed to actually have all day long. Yes, it really is [...]

What Are The Best Brain Supplements And Smart Drugs To Shut Down Brain Inflammation And Make You Smarter?

March 31, 2013

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The way I see it, there’s two things you need to worry about when it comes to your brain: 1) Keep your precious neurons and brain tissue protected from damage (AKA “brain inflammation”); 2) Do everything you can to maximize your focus, IQ, acuity and mental productivity. If you can nail this one-two combo, you’ll [...]

The One New Book That Every Healthy Grocery Shopper Should Have In Their Cart.

February 25, 2013

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The book pictured above is called “Rich Food, Poor Food”. If you watched my “Top Fitness & Nutrition Book Recommendations of 2012″ video, then you may have noticed this book made a cameo appearance as the top book I recommend to all my clients and athletes when it comes to getting a healthy grocery shopping [...]

Do Professional Sports Teams Have It All Wrong When It Comes To Optimizing Performance & Recovery?

February 18, 2013

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Since I race as a triathlete for Team Timex, I spent my entire last weekend in New York at the Timex Performance Center – which is where the professional football team New York Giants eat, train and play. And I was able to witness firsthand many of the training, nutrition and recovery protocols that are [...]

Is There One Single Diet That Is Best? (And Why Something Called The “Perfect Health Diet” Heavily Influences Most of Ben Greenfield’s Dietary Decisions).

February 13, 2013

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Is there one single diet that helps people perform their best, avoid gut distress, or be healthiest? I actually explored this question in a post you can read here, but ultimately, the best diet will vary from person to person, based on genetics, level of activity, body size, goals and more. As a matter of [...]

Is Fiber Bad For You? The Top 12 Myths And The Real Truth About Whether Fiber Is Killing Your Insides.

January 12, 2013

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“The recent popularity of fiber in medicine and nutrition is based on old wives’ tales and intentional lies that have little to do with either science or medicine. These lies and tales are retold ad nauseam in medical offices, web sites, diet books, college courses, government pamphlets, and on and on. Tell a lie one [...]

How To Cut Up A Chicken, Why Buying A Whole Chicken Is A Better Deal, and Some Top Chicken Recipes.

January 5, 2013

Frequently buying a bag of chicken breasts is not only spendy, but only gives you a fraction of the nutritional bang-for-your-buck you can get when you just buy the whole dang chicken. However, a great big chicken sitting in your refrigerator can be a bit intimidating if you don’t know what you’re doing. So in [...]

12 Tips For Sleeping Better Than A Baby

December 31, 2012

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The following is a guest post from Craig Huggart, who has been a longtime podcast listener, and is a technology trainer for law firms (and also a triathlete). Craig’s been geeking out on his sleep lately, and now shares his fantastic tips below on how to sleep better. This is a great read if you [...]

5 Things I’m Packing For The Holidays To Keep Me From Getting Fat And Sick This Christmas.

December 23, 2012

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Every year, my family packs up and heads to Moscow, Idaho, where we celebrate Christmas with extended family and friends… …while stuffing our gullets full of holiday food and cheer (i.e. alcoholic beverages). For example, on Christmas day, I will probably start the morning with eggnog and champagne… …then move on to bacon, eggs and [...]

Why You Get A Hangover, And How To Get Rid Of A Hangover As Fast As Possible With The Best Natural Hangover Cures.

December 10, 2012

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Embarrassing confession: I occasionally party my freaking butt off. Despite living a 99% healthy lifestyle, I do have a handful of nights per year that typically involve copious amounts of alcohol consumption, usually as part of a post-triathlon party, holiday celebration, networking event or night out with my friends. And until I started researching natural [...]

How Energy Drinks Slowly Kill You (And 3 Natural Energy Drink Alternatives)

December 3, 2012

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The NY Daily just reported the following: “FDA probes link between 5-Hour Energy caffeine shot drink and 13 deaths”. In the report, you learn that the supposedly “safe” 5-Hour Energy drink has been mentioned in 90 FDA filings since 2009, including more than 30 that involved serious or life-threatening events like heart attacks, convulsions, and [...]

Straight Talk About Doping In Amateur Sports

November 17, 2012

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As you know if you listened to or read the transcript of the episode “The Real Truth About Age Group Drug Testing, Doping In Triathlon and the Kevin Moats Story“, the use of drugs and cheating (whether accidental or intentional) is a growing issue in amateur and age grouper sports. But there are lots of [...]

3 Simple Big Meal Strategies To Maximize Fat Loss, Control Appetite and Limit The Damage From Overeating.

November 11, 2012

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The holidays approach. And with them come large meals. Even if you aren’t the kind of person who tends to “get fat” from consuming lots of calories, it’s pretty shocking from an overall health perspective what happens when you eat a big meal at a holiday like Thanksgiving or Christmas. We’re talking about issues that [...]

3 Ways To Have A Healthy Halloween, How To Fight Candy Cravings, and How To Win A Sugar Burner.

October 29, 2012

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I have nothing against Halloween. In previous Halloweens, I’ve been the Genie from Aladdin (left, painted completely blue)… …Pinnochio (wearing embarrassingly short red overalls)… …Kermit the Frog (painted completely green)… …an old man in a wheelchair… …and a baby wearing nothing but a diaper and a pacifier (below, and probably not a surprise to those [...]

Is There One Single Diet That Helps Top Athletes To Perform Their Best?

October 27, 2012

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“What diet helps you perform at your best?” This is the question that today’s guest author, Todd Kuslikis from AShotOfAdrenaline.net, asked 25 Olympians, professional athletes and other top performers. Their answers may surprise you… Let’s jump right in.

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