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A new study shows that vitamin C has no effect on exercise performance.
I'm not particularly surprised by that news. But -- and this is truly a unique twist -- the researchers admit they expected the experiment to show the opposite.
From Reuters:
"The experiment was based on...
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Men's Fitness has released its annual list of fittest and fattest cities (an annual project begun during my tenure there in the mid-'90s, although I can't take any credit for it).
Here's what I don't get:
How did St. Louis, which was ranked as the #5 fattest city...
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Today is the first workday of the new year, which I've dubbed the National Day of Retonement. It's the day virtually everyone thinks about eating better and exercising more.
Whether they do anything about it is another story, but let's put that aside for now.
It's also the...
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Here's a really cruel and politically incorrect joke from my childhood:
A group of retarded kids are asked by their teacher to identify various body parts.
"Where's your nose?" the first is asked.
She points to a table.
"Where's your arm?" the next is asked.
He points to the window.
"Where's...
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The Harvard researchers conducting the mammoth, long-running Nurses' Health Study have crunched decades' worth of data to come up with a completely unsurprising conclusion:
It's better to be thin and fit than fat and fit, thin and unfit, or fat and unfit.
Here's how they defined fatness and...
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Sometimes an idea comes along that makes so much sense it hardly seems worth commenting on.
That's how I feel about the news that Purdue University is creating an undergraduate degree in personal fitness training.
It just makes sense, especially in the context of statements like this,...
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A lot of the emails I get ask me to parse things that, as I explain in my responses, just can't be parsed with any accuracy. A typical question is, "How much cardio exercise can I do before it starts affecting my ability to build muscle?"
My...
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