The “Test” Test: Day 0
When it comes to evaluating the science behind supplement ingredients, I’m often caught between a rock and a hard spot. Why? I’ll be blunt: sometimes the science just ain’t there. Or even more maddeningly, it’s there, but it’s very questionable stuff – like a study published by little-known researchers 25 years ago in some obscure Russian or Chinese-language-only journal. This doesn’t...
A NEAT Way to Keep From Gaining Weight
Regular, vigorous exercise helps keep the pounds off – we all know this. But, as it turns out, it may be your non-exercise activity that determines how much weight creeps on over the years. Activities as simple as pacing while you think, or puttering around the house add up to a significant number of calories, if you’re constantly doing them throughout the day. How many extra calories could you possibly burn? According...
What the Heck is Food Technology?
When my kids were younger, the “Seven Wonders of the World” would sometimes be discussed in school – y’know, the Colossus of Rhodes, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Pyramid of Giza, and so on. Afterwards, they and their classmates would be challenged to come up with a list of 7 modern wonders. Technological achievements like computers, space travel, flight, television and splitting the atom always made...
Ingredient Watch: Glycocyamine
Glycocyamine is an ingredient that some companies add to their creatine-containing supplements. Because glycocyamine is the immediate precursor for creatine synthesis, it represents an additional pathway for increasing creatine storage in muscle tissue. It also has hypoglycemic effects, and may be able to enhance creatine uptake in muscle without a sugar-mediated insulin spike. Glycocyamine, however, has a dark side, and there have...
The Joy of Lifting
One problem with working in the bodybuilding industry, is that the focus is relentlessly on…well, bodies. A lot of people lift because they want a leaner, more muscular, better-looking body. Nuthin’ wrong with that: I certainly enjoy my body (and so does my husband). But there’s so much more to it than that – especially for me, as a woman. Quite honestly, it’s seriously cool to be strong. I love being...
Photoshop Phun
No matter how perfect your diet and workout is, you will never be perfect. Ever. You will never look like the beauties gracing magazine covers and advertisements. Don’t even imagine you can go there. I can hear the sarcasm now: “Great, Elissa – that’s reeeeeeeeally helpful advice! Thanks for the encouraging words.” But hey – bear with me for a moment. There’s method to my madness....
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