Month: November 2012

You Booze, You Lose. How Alcohol Can Wreck Your Athletic Performance

November 27, 2012 / 2 minutes of reading

It’s called a beer gut for a reason. But, over drinking will do more than just cover up those abs you’ve been working so hard for. Take a close look at how it will wreck your athletic performance: Athletic Performance & Recovery Alcohol has a number of effects on the body that can impair performance and delay recovery by: Impairing muscle growth in the short-term – decreasing gains you’ve worked for in the weight room and on the field Disrupting …

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UGA vs. Georgia Tech – Tailgating with Georgia’s Finest Foods

November 23, 2012 / 3 minutes of reading

UGA vs. Georgia Tech is one of college football’s most intense rivalries, dating back to 1893. It has been described as Clean Old-Fashioned Hate complete with taunting, pranks and a sea of gold, navy, red and black. But, you can do even more to show your school pride by choosing Southern foods from each side of the football battleground. Just follow these 3 easy tips I discussed on CBS Better Mornings Atlanta. You can see the video by clicking here. …

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Four Fast Breakfast Ideas

October 9, 2015 / 3 minutes of reading

Breakfast may be one of the most important meals of the day because it provides energy for your morning and spikes muscle protein synthesis (when you wake up after an overnight fast your body is breaking down muscle tissue until you eat a protein-rich meal). Include at Each Breakfast Meal: High Quality Protein. Choose a breakfast that contains at least 30 grams of protein if you are over about 25 years of age or want to lose weight. Research shows that consuming …

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The Great Gluten Debate

November 7, 2015 / 3 minutes of reading

Get two passionate Italian scientists in the room and you are in for a show. If the nitty gritty details about mucosal villous atrophy sound about as exciting as reading a manual on how to fix your vacuum cleaner, at least you’ll be entertained by the Cramer Mad Money Style voice inflections, common pop culture references and overly expressive hands gestures that put a non-verbal exclamation point on every sentence!!! The Great Gluten Debate Face-off between two world renown scientists, Stefano …

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Mitigating the Pain of Overtraining

November 20, 2012 / 2 minutes of reading

In college our cross country coach would often tell us to run an easy 60 minutes on Sundays after our Saturday races. The temptation to run further, just to see how long I could go, was too much and I’d often be out there for 2 hours (not to mention a few times I got lost and was frantically trying to find my way back to anything that looked remotely familiar). Ten hill repeats turned into 15 or 20 and …

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Breast cancer: Give yourself fighting chance

November 3, 2012 / 1 minute of reading

Breast cancer awareness month is over but the fight to find a cure and discuss prevention strategies shouldn’t take a backseat just because the pink ribbons are slowly disappearing from store shelves. If this disease hasn’t touched you, it will because an estimated one in eight women will be diagnosed during her lifetime. In this TV segment on my home state’s WBAL NBC, I discussed the top research-based preventative measures you can take (thanks to the Continuous Update Project from …

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