OSXFitness has teamed up with some leading experts to bring you the latest and most important information available about nutrition. We will be bringing you more information and new articles each and every week.

 

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Nutrition Tips

If You're In a Workout Slump, This May Be Your Answer - "The Low Down On Nutrient Timing" - When it comes to nutrition – it seems that everyone is an “expert.” Eat carbs, don’t eat carbs. To supplement, or not to supplement?

How Many Calories Do I Need Per Day?
Listen, figuring out how many calories a day you need to lose weight, maintain your weight or gain weight really isn’t too hard

Weight Training Nutrition Is Not Common Sense
Most people think nutrition is common sense. But these people are completely wrong.

Increase Your Endurance
A study from The University of Bern in Switzerland shows that a high carbohydrate, high-fat diet for three days before competition can help athletes store more fat in their muscles

Sports Nutrition
Everyone knows you need to drink water before, during, and after exercise to replace lost fluids. But how about what you eat and when you eat it? The following guidelines should help athletes decide how to best fuel their bodies

Sports Nutrition Made Simple
Following these simple nutrition guidelines will allow you to lose weight, and an abundance of energy throughout the day

5 Fitness and Nutrition Tips That Will Refocus Your Life and Career
Your career is probably one of your greatest stressors. You want to earn more income. You want to receive more recognition for your hard work

Soft Drinks - Powerful Damage to Your Health
One of the worst things you can do for your health is regularly consume soft drinks

Protein

The Importance of Protein as a Sports Nutrition Supplement
the question of whether extra protein is necessary for sports performance is one of the most hotly debated topics among sports scientists, coaches and athletes

 

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Nutrients

How To Obtain All the Nutrients from Juices
But the important problem is how to get all the nutrients that are contained in fruit and vegetable-juices, for the recovery from diseases depends on the availability of all the nutrients contained in fruit and vegetable juices

Muscle Growth With Three Nutrients
Are you working out, and not seeing the results you want to see? First off, you really have to see a picture of what you want to look like in your mind

Engineered Phytonutrients
Research studies worldwide have recently begun to uncover the wide array of phytonutrients contained in fruits and vegetables

Obesity

Healthy Weight Control For Children
Parents need to be aware that children can suffer from obesity as much as, if not more than, adults can

Preventing Childhood Obesity
There are four main steps all parents must take in order to prevent childhood obesity in their children

Fruit Juices & Weight Loss Drugs - 2 New Studies
Are fruit juices a better choice for children and teens than soft drinks?



Fiber

List of High Fiber Foods and Fiber Content
A list of high fiber foods helps you know which foods to include in daily meal planning


How Important is Fiber?
Consistent intake of fiber through foods like whole grains, berries and other fresh fruit, vegetables, seeds and nuts is now associated with reduced risk of some of the world’s most prevalent diseases

Vitamins and Minerals

Vitamin For Energy
Lack of energy and the feeling of fatigue is an age-old complaint. Vitamins boost the energy levels of the human body

B-Complex Vitamins
B-Complex vitamins are a mixture of eight essential B-vitamins that our bodies require on a daily basis

Iron Daily Requirements
Are you getting enough Iron? Find out what Iron does and how much you need daily.

Vitamin C
We all know we need Vitamin C. Find out why we need it and how much you need to take

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Amino Acids

Get Over Bad Cholesterol With A Good Dose Of Flax Seed
Statistics reveal that over 80 million Americans suffer from at least one form of cardiovascular disease

Amino Acids
Useful Amino Acids that you might want to read about

Glutamine
Glutamine along with glucose works as fuel for brain cells, and also as detoxifier of ammonia from the brain

Tyrosine
The amino acid tyrosine, found in chicken and also tuna fish, boosts brain chemicals that improve motivation and reaction time


Antioxidants

Antioxidants and Heart Disease in Women - The Real Truth
The media seems to love to distort the truth about the benefits of nutritional supplements. The media recently jumped on one of the worst studies on antioxidants done to date

Antioxidants And Cancer Prevention - Fact Sheet
Just what are antioxidants and can they do anything to help prevent or fight cancer?

Antioxidants
Laboratory and preliminary human clinical studies are revealing anti-disease properties of these “nutrients.”


Blueberries
The blueberry is simply plant food’s most popular health-promoting superstar.

Cranberries
Particularly in the prevention of urinary tract infections, cranberries have proven benefits as an anti-adhesion agent.

Black Raspberries
Scientists would tell you that a fast-rising star is the black raspberry—one of Nature’s most powerful antioxidant fruits

Wolfberry
What the heck is a Wolfberry? The Chinese revere the wolfberry as a national treasure regarded as among the most nutrient-dense of the nation’s plants

Red Raspberry - Just the FAQs
Red raspberries are a healthy addition to everyone's diet. This fruit has a unique delicious taste and is packed with vitamins, antioxidants and fiber

Creatine

The Importance of Creatine in Building Lean Muscle
Creatine monohydrate can rightly lay claim to being the most popular and arguably most effective bodybuilding supplement currently available


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