Beyond the simplistic exterior, assessment of calories in nutrition (as a unit of energy) is fraught with error and confusion. As Ricardo Adamo highlights, the human body is not a heat engine… The debate between calories and joules as units...
Beyond the simplistic exterior, assessment of calories in nutrition (as a unit of energy) is fraught with error and confusion. As Ricardo Adamo highlights, the human body is not a heat engine… The debate between calories and joules as units...
What you already know as a nutrition practitioner and what you still need to learn… The field of sport and exercise nutrition is rapidly diversifying – it is not only the domain of high performance sport, or ‘performance nutrition’ any...
The modern view of immunology seems to revolve around a narrative of ‘killing the bugs’, but the reality is that our bugs outnumber our own cells by a large magnitude. So, according to Ian Craig, we should pay more attention...
Recovery is more important than training! As functional medicine practitioner Pete Williams says, there is a strong case for making the most of the time you have between training sessions; a phrase he calls ‘active restoration’. Science has continued to...
Research Spotlight focusses on a single food, nutrient or dietary class that has received recent scientific attention. Joseph Lillis is a PhD researcher at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, who explores the benefits of polyphenols for athletes. What are polyphenols?...
A lot of controversy still surrounds the optimal hydration for athletes. Andy Blow takes us through the history of this conflated science and provides a more balanced perspective, highlighting the need for individualisation. We humans are a sweaty species. We...
The best exercise and nutrition methods for fat burning are hotly debated. Matt Lovell cuts through the science with some practical suggestions. Intuitively, having a low proportion of body fat would seem to be advantageous for athletic endeavour, increasing the...
This is an extended version of the history of sports nutrition section in the Textbook of Integrative Sport and Exercise Nutrition. Although the academic study of sport and exercise nutrition is relatively recent, the idea of using nutrition to enhance...
When hormones go out of balance, many practitioners will simply try and support the most obvious gland. However, as Ian Craig observes, because the endocrine system is so inter-connected, in many cases it is appropriate to support the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal (HPA...
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