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All posts tagged: Nutrition
How to make a healthy smoothie for active children
Heather Mangieri’s Fueling Young Athletes contains a variety of recipes and smoothies for active children. Here at Human Kinetics, we decided to make the delicious and nutritious Green Smoothie
The successful green vegan story of Forest Green Rovers FC
The world’s greenest football club (as recognised by FIFA) Forest Green Rovers have won promotion the English Football league. They are the smallest town to have a professional football club and a Vegan football club
Free nutrition course launched for primary teachers
Last week, the British Nutrition Foundation (BNF) launched a new professional development platform for primary school teachers. The free online course comes in response to the results of research which showed teachers were getting little training in the area of nutrition, yet poor nutrition and an unhealthy lifestyle are being increasingly linked with academic performance.
See an astonishing new you with Fitness Illustrated
Fitness Illustrated is a visual, straightforward approach to core fitness concepts, exercise programming, nutrition, and weight management. Photos, illustrations, and explanations depict how a body changes through aerobic and strength training so you can customise routines to maximise benefits and address specific needs and goals.
The surprising benefits of chocolate
Most people tend to feel guilty for eating chocolate but is it really as bad as people make out?
We told you last year that dark chocolate could help boost athletic performance.
But what else is dark chocolate good for? And what about milk chocolate? Is chocolate milk good for us too?
How diet and lifestyle choices impact athletic performance and risk of infection
Professional athletes like football (Soccer) players are exposed to large amounts of physiological and psychological stress, which can increase infection susceptibility and threaten availability for training and competition. A new journal article investigates what effect diet and lifestyle choices have on those at increased risk.
Post run recovery – Do you need protein?
The International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism published by Human Kinetics has examined whether carbohydrate-protein ingestion influences muscle glycogen metabolism during short-term recovery from exhaustive treadmill running and subsequent exercise.