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Is the Lighter Runner the Better Runner?

Many runners have engraved this message into their brains: The lighter I am, the better I will perform. While lugging around excess flab can indeed slow you down, many dieting runners are already lean for their genetics—yet may yearn to be even leaner. These tenacious dieters overlook the fact that weight is more than a matter of willpower.
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How to Easily Improve Your Nutrition

Eating the right food is the most important step you can take in ensuring that you stay healthy. These days there are so many unhealthy food choices that surround us all the time that it can be difficult resisting the temptation. Some people wrongly believe that healthy food is boring or that it takes a long time to prepare. This couldn’t be further from the truth as there are so many quick and delicious healthy options available to us all. From juices to salads to fresh meat, healthy food is vibrant, tasty, and easy to prepare.
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What Can CBD Oil Be Used For?

Over the last few years, CBD has been widely used by everyone. Many studies have been focused on finding beneficial uses of CBD. Furthermore, it is now made easily accessible with a lot of options to utilize. You can utilize cannabidiol in multiple ways. One way to use them is through CBD Oil.
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The ABC’s of Sports Nutrition

Believe it or not, eating a good sports diet can be simple. Yet too many runners have created a complex and confusing eating program with good and bad foods, lots of rules, and plenty of guilt. Let’s get back to the basics and enjoy performance-enhancing fueling with these simple ABC’s for winning nutrition.
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Sports Nutrition: What Runners Should Be Eating

As a runner, you often wonder whether to eat whole grains, fruits, carbs, or proteins after a workout. By knowing what to eat and when to eat it, you can have an edge when running. The proper diet will build up your stamina and make you feel energized. Keep reading for six of the best foods that runners can eat.
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Runners, Injuries & Nutrition

     Runners get injured. Seems like it’s part of the deal. Be it a torn ACL, Achilles tendonitis, or a pulled muscle, the questions arise: What can I eat to […]
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Midlife Weight Gain

“I used to be skinny when I was a runner in college. Look at me now. My BMI says I am “obese.” “I’ve always been able to manage my weight […]
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Winning the War Against Snack Attacks

Day after day, I hear runners complain about their (seemingly) uncontrollable snacking habits. Some believe they are hopelessly, and helplessly, addicted to chocolate. Others believe eating between meals is sinful and fattening; snacking is just plain wrong. Some equate snacking to doing drugs. They bemoan they are addicted to sugar and can’t eat just one cookie. Snacking is all or nothing.
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Runners Should Trust Thirst, New Study Says

If you’ve ever run a marathon, half-marathon, or any other long race, you’ve undoubtedly had a hydration plan: a detailed assessment of what you intend to drink, when you intend to drink it, and how you intend to obtain it. But a paper in tomorrow’s issue of Science may cause you to rethink exactly how you do this, suggesting that to a larger degree than people have thought, you may be able to trust your sense of thirst to tell you when you are and aren’t getting enough fluids.
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Intestinal Distress: Gutting It Out

While some runners have cast iron stomachs and few concerns about what and when they eat before they exercise, others live in fear of pre-exercise fuel contributing to undesired pit stops during their workouts. Be it stomach rumbling, a need to urinate or defecate, reflux, nausea, heartburn, or side stitch, how to prevent intestinal distress is a topic of interest to athletes with finnicky guts. Here are tips to help you fuel well before and during runs, races and workouts while reducing the risk of gastro-intestinal (GI) distress.
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