Nutrition & Weight Loss

By Abby Forman, MS, RD Carbohydrates are your body’s main source of fuel. They are used exclusively by your brain (with the exception of ketones) and give us ready-to-use energy for high intensity athletic activity.  There are two kinds of carbohydrates, simple and complex.  Simple carbohydrates are those that only contain one or two molecules […]READ MORE

This blog was written by Abby Forman, MS, RD. The majority of people who follow restrictive diets that put strict rules on what or how much you can and can’t eat, regain the weight within five years.  Almost two-thirds regain more weight than they initially lost. This says something very powerful about “dieting”: it works in the […]READ MORE

This blog was written by Brandon Johnson, CSCS, FMS, USAW “How much water should you drink” is a loaded question.  There are a lot of factors that play a role in how water you should consume.  The old saying is “eight servings of eight ounces of water a day,” but that does not take into […]READ MORE

January is a popular for time for Americans to count their steps and how many calories they’re eating in their diet, but a new report suggests they need to track another category: sodium. That’s because nearly all Americans are consuming more sodium than they should in their overall diet, according to researchers from the Centers […]READ MORE

Millions of Americans who suffer from joint pain and arthritis may reduce their pain and inflammation by eating tart cherries, according to research from Oregon Health & Science University. Researchers have found that drinking tart cherry juice daily for three weeks helped reduce inflammation in a study of 20 women between the ages of 40 […]READ MORE

You probably know that soda is bad for you, right? But do you know how it really can sabotage weight loss? I’ve never been much of a soda drinker. And this little bit of math makes me really, really glad. Say you drink one soft drink every day. That’s roughly 140 calories. By the end […]READ MORE

If you placed a marshmallow on the dinner table in front of your child, could they wait to eat it? Could they wait 15 minutes? It’s hard enough for adults to delay gratification. But kids who are able to learn self-control skills at age 4 have a lower body mass index 30 years later, according […]READ MORE

Processed food. It’s a widely-used term for food that’s bad for you, right? Not necessarily so, according to a study published in the July issue of Advances in Nutrition. Where would we be without pasteurized milk, researchers ask? How would people with celiac disease and lactose intolerance be able to eat many foods that require processing […]READ MORE

Going out to lunch may never be the same. And maybe that’s a good thing. Soon, many chain restaurants nationwide will be required to display nutritional information for everything they sell. Not only will you see how many calories come in that grilled chicken salad with pecans and crumbled cheese, but how much fat and […]READ MORE

Families, volunteers and coaches nationwide are helping prevent childhood obesity and they don’t even know it. Every time a child heads onto the soccer field or runs another lap around the track, their chances of becoming obese get slimmer and slimmer. In fact, “teens who play on three or more sports teams…were 27 percent less […]READ MORE