Nutrition in Fitness

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GuideCal Brennan23 Sept 20265 min

The salt shaker isn't your blood pressure problem

A teaspoon holds 2,300 mg of sodium, but most of yours came from bread, deli meat and a jar of pasta sauce. Fix that instead.

GuideCal Brennan23 Sept 20265 min

Eating well at 25, at 45 and at 65

The same three groceries carry you through every decade. What changes is how much you get away with, and how fast.

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GuideCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

Weight loss is arithmetic, and the arithmetic isn't hard

A pound of fat is about 3,500 calories. Everything after that's habits, and the habits are the part nobody tells you the truth about.

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The other ingredients line is the one worth reading

Magnesium stearate isn't your problem. A capsule that says 1,000 mg and delivers 250 mg of what you paid for is.

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GuideMarcus Vale23 Sept 20266 min

What creatine actually does, and the dose that matters

It's the cheapest useful thing on the supplement shelf, and nearly everything complicated you've been told about taking it's optional.

GuideMarcus Vale22 Sept 20266 min

If you eat oily fish twice a week, skip the fish oil

The capsules aren't magic and they aren't a scam. The only question that matters is what you actually ate in the last seven days.

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GuideMarcus Vale22 Sept 20265 min

The supplements with real evidence, ranked honestly

Four things worth buying, a few worth considering, and a long list you can walk straight past — written for people with jobs and kids.

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GuideCal Brennan22 Sept 20265 min

What the certification on your protein tub actually promises

Four seals worth knowing, what each one does and doesn't cover, and the two-minute check that beats trusting the label.

GuideCal Brennan22 Sept 20265 min

What protein powder is for and how much you actually need

Skip the label claims. A tub of powder is a convenience food with one job, and most people are buying it for the wrong reasons.

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GuideCal Brennan22 Sept 20265 min

What creatine actually does, and what it doesn't

Five grams a day of the cheapest form, taken every day. Everything else you've been told about creatine is either detail or marketing.

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GuideCal Brennan22 Sept 20266 min

What a proprietary blend on the label is actually hiding

Turn the tub around, spend ninety seconds on the back panel, and you'll know whether the thing in your hand is worth the money.

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GuideCal Brennan22 Sept 20266 min

The four supplements worth your money, and the dozen that aren't

Most of the tub on your kitchen counter is doing nothing. Four things have real evidence, and none of them cost much.

GuideCal Brennan22 Sept 20265 min

The protein problem is breakfast, not dinner

Most people eat plenty of protein at 7pm and almost none before noon. Fix the front half of the day and the rest sorts itself out.

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Blood Pressure Numbers and What Actually Lowers Them

The line moved to 130/80 back in 2017, most home readings are taken wrong, and the fixes that work are boring and cheap.

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Normal hemoglobin doesn't mean your iron is fine

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You need more protein at seventy than you did at forty

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GuideFoodWes Dunbar23 Sept 20266 min

The lasagna is the wrong meal for someone on chemo

Smell is the enemy, food aversions are permanent, and everybody shows up on the wrong day. What to cook instead, and when to carry it over.

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The lunch you keep skipping is why 3 p.m. hurts

Eight real meals you can put together in four minutes or less, plus the twenty-minute Sunday habit that keeps you from living on coffee until dinner.

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