Nutrition Tips

We know it's important for the body to be fueled throughout the day and especially prior to exercise. Ensuring muscles get the right amount of protein and carbohydrate post workout, though, aid in recovery and muscle growth.

More than 42 percent of adults in the U.S. have obesity. We continue to hear that it's a "growing" concern. Obviously these last few pandemic years have not helped that. Knowing nineteen states now have adult obesity rates over 35 percent, up from 16 states last year, may just justify that concern.

Now may be the perfect time to change your diet. Especially with Halloween tonight, Thanksgiving looming and the Holiday season fast approaching

A worthy diet goal for year end could be a more proactive rather than reactive approach to healthy eating. We know it can be a very challenging time for many during the Holiday season.

In 1900, the average yearly sugar intake was 11 pounds per person. It’s now 96 pounds per person in North America, and as high as 140 pounds per person in the U.S. In contrast, it’s only 38 pounds per person per year in Asia.

A qualified nutritionist will always recommend eating real, whole food as a first option in order to meet daily protein needs. This can be very challenging to do consistently over time though. It can also be difficult if someone requires a large amount of protein each day in order to build lean muscle mass. This is where protein drinks enter the picture.

The sugars found in fruit are fructose, glucose, and sucrose. Fructose and glucose are monosaccharides, the basic building block of any carbohydrate. Sucrose is a disaccharide, composed of 2 monosaccharides. A sucrose molecule is composed of one molecule each of fructose and glucose.