Making weight in sport
Making weight is a global term for the targeted reduction of body mass, which is purported to enhance performance in aesthetic,...
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Can I gain muscle and lose weight at the same time?
One may find themselves in an energy deficit, that is, eating fewer calories than is required to maintain weight and optimal...
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Asker Jeukendrup
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Creatine and its effects on performance
This post describes the effects of creatine on performance. It is simply a summary of current scientific understanding.
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Jose Areta
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What are the effects of low energy availability on health and performance?
In a previous blog-post we defined what energy availability is and what typically is considered to be ‘low energy availability’ (LEA)....
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Jose Areta
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What is low energy availability in athletes?
What are the ‘relative energy deficiency in sport’ (RED-S), the ‘athlete triad’ and low energy availability? Definition of concepts and...
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Mike Ormsbee
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Presleep protein does not make you gain fat
guest blog by: Michael J. Ormsbee, Lillie Renteria, and Casey Greenwalt. Most people believe eating before sleep makes you accumulate fat...
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Asker Jeukendrup
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Study shows that caffeine increases fat burning, but does it matter?
In new Spanish study appeared in the European Journal of Nutrition about the role of caffeine and fat burning (oxidation).
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Caroline Tarnowski
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Body composition methods: validity and reliability
How valid and reliable are the different techniques to measure body composition? Which method should you choose?
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Asker Jeukendrup
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Risks of supplement use
Supplements may have benefits in certain situations but they also come with risks. What are the risks and how can we mitigate them?
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Caroline Tarnowski
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Body composition methods compared
How do different methods used to measure body composition compare?
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Asker Jeukendrup
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The role of energy density in weight management
Energy density is an important concept in weight management.
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Asker Jeukendrup
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Is low carb low carb?
The Tower of Babel would reach into heaven. But this tower could not be completed because of confusion and the fact that workers did not spe
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James Betts
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Breakfast is not real and breakfast skippers do not exist
The seemingly mythical status of breakfast stems from age-old tales of reduced appetite later in the day and legendary feats such as...
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Asker Jeukendrup
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Is breakfast the most important meal of the day?
Is breakfast the most important meal of the day? A recent meta-analysis suggests that this might be one of the myths in nutrition.
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Asker Jeukendrup
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Foodfight: high fat versus high carb
The low carb group shouts, “carbohydrate is bad”, while the high carbohydrate group, you shout “you must carboload”!
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Stuart Phillips
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What’s the ‘best’ weight loss diet?
What’s the ‘best’ weight loss diet? Tough question, right?
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Asker Jeukendrup
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Why are we so obsessed with fat burning?
Why fat burning? Does more fat burning mean weight loss?
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Asker Jeukendrup
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Red wine to increase fat burning?
Can drinking red wine increase fat burning?
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