Sugar is hotly debated. Even discounting carbophobic groups (like keto dieters), sugar is often considered unhealthy and not “worth” putting in your body compared to other sources of calories. Sugar is also demonized as being the foremost cause of poor health outcomes, with entire books written attempting to link sugar intake alone to diseases like […]
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Juice Is Nature’s Soda
I recently came across a few stories in my news feed about a start-up called “Juicero” that aims to be the Keurig of the juice world. The stories themselves were mostly about how the proprietary fruit packs the company sells to be used with their $400 pressing machine can actually just be squeezed by hand (and […]
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Five Basic Lessons on Carbohydrates
Carbohydrates are deceptively complex. While their place in the diet is relatively easy to understand because their main function is provide energy, many people don’t realize some finer points about carbohydrates and as a result wind up with skewed or illogical beliefs. Since carbohydrates will play a central role in many of the articles on this […]
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Remember Climbers: You Are Athletes
When I see clients for sports nutrition, nine out of ten of them begin by saying, “I eat really healthy.” And usually this is true—I don’t think I’ve ever seen a client whose diet is abysmal. But there’s a question hidden in there that most people don’t think to ask, which is this: Healthy for whom? Many people […]
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Bon Appetit Interviews Alex Honnold
Bon Appetit just interviewed Alex Honnold, which is pretty awesome. It’s only so often you get a look at the diet of one of the world’s best climbers. Still, there’s one thing Alex said that bugged me…
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