By: Brigitte Coburn
Ponte Vedra High School
Over the last year, I slowly started eating worse and worse and exercising less and less. My typical daily food intake for the summer of ’08 was a bagel sandwich for breakfast, chicken wings and fries for lunch, a bag of chips for a snack and topped off with a [...]
by Susan M. Kleiner, PhD, RD, FACN, CNS, FISSN
Proteins, carbs, vitamins, minerals, water, and fats. Of the 6 primary classes of nutrients, which is the most critical for growth, muscle development, and health? If you guessed water, you’re right!
WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE
It is hard to say enough good things about water. Water is the most abundant [...]
by Susan M. Kleiner, PhD, RD, FACN, CNS, FISSN
You’ve decided to make the switch to some style of a vegetarian diet. Will your exercise performance suffer? What about your energy levels? Can you still develop body-firming muscle even though you’re not eating animal protein?
Put your fears aside. Vegetarian diets are typically rich in carbohydrates, [...]
