Fitness & Weight Loss

By focusing on more than just the number, we’ll show you the difference between healthy and sustainable weight loss and the other thing.

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Aerobic Performance

Natural Vasodilators for Athletes

Thanks to our deep fondness for oversimplified interpretations, most of us (we’re not exempting ourselves) have held the belief at one point or another that our arteries and veins are static, rigid tunnels.

Diets & Cooking

Is Hummus Keto? Hummus Carb Counts, Low-Carb Hummus Alternatives, and More

In this article, we’ll give you the final word on whether or not hummus is keto-friendly—plus some options for lower-carb hummus alternatives if you’re one of the stricter keto dieters.

The Carnivore Diet: A Meat-Lover’s Dream or Nutritional Nightmare?

Sharpen your steak knives, because we’re about to slice into this primal, plant-free eating plan. The great carnivore diet debate awaits us!

Top 10 Brown Sugar Substitutes

What brown sugar substitute can you use when you’ve already preheated the oven and cracked the eggs, only to realize you’re fresh out?

7-Day Leaky Gut Diet Plan

Jump to section Foods to Eat for Leaky Gut Foods to Avoid for Leaky Gut 7-Day Leaky Gut Diet Plan:

Mediterranean Diet Meal Plan

If you’re looking for a new diet or just want some new healthy recipes, this Mediterranean meal plan for beginners can help get you started.

Clean Eating Meal Plan

With an abundance of fresh fruits, vegetables, healthy fats, legumes, lean protein, and fish, this clean eating meal plan can help get you started on your health journey.

Coconut Aminos vs Soy Sauce

Coconut aminos and soy sauce are two popular condiments in Asian cuisine—but is one healthier than the other?

Chia Seeds vs Flaxseeds

Not just for hippie granola and growing chia pets anymore, chia seeds and flaxseeds are nutrient-dense powerhouses that may aid weight loss and improve health.

Macrobiotic Diet Food List

Meaning “long life,” the macrobiotic diet emphasizes plant-based foods that promote yin-yang balance—but what exactly can you eat on this diet?

What is a Combi Oven: Pros and Cons

Combi ovens use a unique combination of steam and convection capabilities that can open up a whole new world of at-home cooking and baking.

10 Best Sous Vide Accessories

Now that you’ve started sous vide cooking, you may wonder which accessories you need to go along with it—try out these top ten to go from sous vide amateur to expert.

Low FODMAP Meal Plan

If you have IBS or unexplained gastrointestinal symptoms, the low FODMAP diet may improve your digestive troubles.

Canola Oil vs. Olive Oil

Take a deep dive into the nutritional and culinary pros and cons of canola oil and olive oil (spoiler alert: olive oil is the winner).

Avocado Oil vs Olive Oil

Experts tend to agree that avocado oil and olive oil are two of the healthiest fats we can use for cooking—but does one outperform the other?

Is Sous Vide Worth It? Top 5 Benefits of Sous Vide Cooking

Thanks to increased affordability and accessibility, sous vide cooking has many advantages that make it a worthwhile—and impressive—appliance.

Primal Kitchen Review: Is It Really Healthy?

In our Primal Kitchen review, we graded their better-for-you condiments, dressings, and supplements based on taste, ingredient quality, and more.

Anova Review: Product Quality, Pricing, and More

“Sous vide” may sound like some obscure foody term on the surface, but according to Anova, you don’t have to be a certified gourmand to appreciate the benefits of this highly precise cooking method.

Is Vegan Collagen a Thing?

Plants don’t have skin and bones and muscles, so vegan collagen doesn’t exist, right? Just a few years ago, this statement would have been (mostly) true, but today, there actually is a way to source this structural protein in its complete form from vegan-friendly foods.

Weight Management Tips for Sedentary Workers

Whether you’ve been shoved into a sedentary lifestyle by the pandemic or if you’re a veteran desk rider like us, you may have noticed a few unwelcome changes in your physique after making the transition to a sedentary job and/or lifestyle.

What Is Low-Glycemic Eating?

Both newspaper and lighter fluid are flammable, but throw each one onto a campfire, and you’ll get two noticeably different results.

Eat Less, Feel Just as Full: Here’s How

Dieting to enhance fullness (with less/healthier food) is an overlooked, but very useful method that anyone can use to lose weight and replace unhealthy food with much better alternatives.

Fiber: An Epidemic-Level Deficiency

In an era of TV remotes with built-in bottle openers and self-twirling pasta forks, it’s no surprise that we’ve become too lazy to chew.

Water: The Original Weight Loss Hack

Unlike the fifteen radio ads for “super fat burner 3000” pelting your ears on every commute, you won’t hear any arguments for plain old water as a weight loss tool.

Safe Sweets for Diabetics

For diabetics, the knee-jerk reaction of swearing off sweets altogether can be problematic for a number of reasons.

Dieting vs Intuitive Eating

It may seem like a relatively new issue, but really, the dieting vs intuitive eating debate is just the latest incarnation of an age-old dilemma: is it better to plow through obstacles or go around them?

Analyzing Superhero Diets: Are They Actually Healthy?

While the real heroes of Greek and North mythology sustained themselves on nectar, ambrosia, and mead, modern-day actors on the superhero diet have to settle for considerably less elysian fare—think grilled chicken, and lots of it.

The Longevity Diet

The very existence (not to mention, empirically proven success) of the longevity diet requires many of us to refresh our own understanding of aging, which is not a function of time alone.

The Vacationer’s Guide to Healthy Eating

This may seem like a fun-killing exercise at first, but we’re not interested in coddling or pandering to our readers, so let’s get the harsh reality out of the way: most of us haven’t earned the right to binge on vacation.

Does High-Temperature Cooking Increase Cancer Risk?

“X thing you love causes cancer” is quickly entering The Boy Who Cried Wolf territory—we’ve all heard it so many times that we are becoming jaded.

Introducing the Ultimate Hair-Growth Diet

Nutrition is for losing belly fat, and overpriced, medicated goop is for hair loss—that’s how most of us are conditioned to think.

The Breatharian Diet: Can We Live Without Food?

Practitioners and teachers of true breatharianism do not believe in eating food or drinking water; they believe that they can survive on “prana” (the Hindu concept of energy or lifeblood) provided from solar rays, the air, and the energy around them.

An Introduction to the Mediterranean Diet

We often stress the importance of seeking out the healthiest versions of wrongfully stigmatized nutrients (i.e., fat and carbs) instead of avoiding them, a concept that the Mediterranean diet embodies perfectly.

Is Intermittent Fasting Safe and Effective?

Intermittent fasting typifies this concept to the letter, as the diet’s somewhat polarizing debut (or rather, comeback) in recent years played over a clattering din of celebrity support on social media, a wave of fitness and nutrition books, and other highly visible mentions.

Should You Really Eat Like a Caveman?

It’s no surprise that present-day Americans struggling against unprecedented obesity rates would romanticize the idea of a pre-industrial diet—you can’t “cheat” if there’s nothing to cheat with.

Why Vegetable Oils Are Unhealthy

There’s something disarming about seeing the word “corn,” “safflower,” or “vegetable” sandwiched between fifteen-letter-long preservatives on food labels, which is one reason why unhealthy vegetable oils have evaded serious criticism for so long.

Does Cooking Food Really Hurt Nutritional Value?

The raw-egg-swilling, beef-battering protagonist of the beloved Rocky franchise may have meant well, but as it turns out, the raw egg scene turned classic trope was all for not.

Diet Foods and Their Impact on Public Health

Diet food and some mainstream brands like to latch onto phrases like “zero trans fat,” “no added sugar,” and so on to signal how healthy their products supposedly are.

When Good Fats Go Rogue: The Omega-6 Conundrum

Fat gets a bad rap, mainly because it’s oversimplified.

The Seafood-Opposed Dieter’s Guide to Omega Fatty Acids

Even if your seafood aversion requires a generous shellacking of tartar sauce every time you can’t avoid eating fish, we can’t emphasize enough how important it is to have fish at least a few times a month.

Olive Leaf: Nature’s “New” Catch-All

Unfortunately, most lye-cured olives have been sapped of a sizable portion of their nutrients by the time they get anywhere near your table, but that doesn’t mean you can’t still reap the health benefits of this ancient fruit.

Exercise

The Best Post-Workout Meals for Muscle Gain and Recovery

If you’re short on post-workout fuel ideas, we’ve got you covered here with 11 easy meals, with options for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

The 7 Best Protein Powders for Women

Jump to section FAQs About Protein Powder for Women Protein is vital for everybody to consume, but many people just

BCAA Benefits: Muscle Growth and Beyond

There is evidence that BCAAs can benefit muscle mass and recovery—and some benefits that go beyond the gym.

Turkesterone: Muscle Hack or Snake Oil?

Coasting to prominence on the hype-filled train that is fitness supplement marketing, the popularizing of turkesterone is playing out ever-so predictably.

Best Pre-Workout for Women in 2023

We’ve evaluated the best pre-workout for women and have narrowed it down to eight contenders. Pick the one that best fits your needs and budget.

The 5 Best Creatine Supplements On the Market in 2023

We’ve evaluated the best creatine supplements and have narrowed it down to five contenders. Pick the one that best fits your needs and budget.

Weight Management Tips for Sedentary Workers

Natural Vasodilators for Athletes

Second Thoughts On Six-Pack Abs

Just a few centuries ago, wealthy aristocrats would have chuckled wryly over the rims of their fancy goblets at the thought of six-pack abs, which were considered a mark of the peasantry.

Electrolytes for Energy and More: A Beginner’s Guide

In the same way that chemistry students create reactions using a variety of compounds, our bodies rely on a special roster of positively and negatively charged minerals to execute a wide variety of internal “reactions,” or functions.

Why Medium-Chain Triglycerides Are an Athlete’s Best Friend

This macronutrient contributes heavily to brain development, communication between nerve cells, insulation and protection of sensitive tissues.

Muscle Building

What to Mix Protein Powder With

Grab your shaker bottle and favorite protein powder, because we’re about to make protein shakes exciting again with this collection of tips and tricks for mixing up your protein powder routine.

How To Use Protein Powder

We’ll cover (almost) everything about protein powder: its health benefits, how much protein to eat daily, and the types of protein powders.

How Much Protein Powder Should You Take Per Day

In this article, we’ll explain how to figure out the total amount of protein you need per day to reach your goals. This will help inform how much protein powder you need to reach your total protein intake.

The Best Post-Workout Meals for Muscle Gain and Recovery

If you’re short on post-workout fuel ideas, we’ve got you covered here with 11 easy meals, with options for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

The 7 Best DHEA Supplements for Men and Women

To provide you with the best DHEA supplements and brands out there for both men and women, we’ve created a list of our top seven picks.

The 8 Best Protein Powders for Muscle Gain

In this list of the 8 best protein powders for muscle gain, we factor in everything from probiotics to protein-by-dry-weight ratio to bring you the most effective supplements.

The 10 Best Clean Protein Powders of 2023

Here’s our list of the seven cleanest protein powders out there, including vegan options, isolates, whey protein, and more.

The 8 Best Protein Bars for Weight Loss (2023)

Check out our list of the 8 best protein bars for weight loss, including whey protein bars, vegan protein bars, and much more.

6 Best BCAA for Women of 2023

Check out our list of the six best BCAA supplements for women plus the best BCAAs for a post-recovery blend, weight loss, good value, and more.

The 6 Best BCAA for Men

Jump to section BCAA for Men FAQs For many of us, any mention of the word “BCAA” gets shoved into

The 4 Best Vegan Protein Powders Available Today

We scoured the plant-based world for the best vegan protein powder, and these five offer clean protein sources, essential amino acids, and surprisingly good taste.

The 5 Best Whey Protein Powders On the Market

We’ve evaluated the best whey protein powders and have narrowed it down to five contenders. Pick the one that best fits your needs and budget.

The 6 Best Tasting Protein Powders On the Market

We’ve evaluated the best tasting protein powders and have narrowed it down to six contenders. Pick the one that best fits your needs and budget.

Best Protein Powder: 6 Choices for 2023

We’ve evaluated the best protein powder and have narrowed it down to six contenders. Pick the one that best fits your needs and budget.

The 7 Best Protein Powders for Women

Jump to section FAQs About Protein Powder for Women Protein is vital for everybody to consume, but many people just

Bovine Collagen: Benefits, Types, and Side Effects

Bovine collagen is one of the most abundant forms of collagen, providing four primary benefits in multiple forms with few side effects.

L-Lysine Benefits: From Anxiety to Muscle Growth

L-lysine helps build proteins, but research is continuing to uncover and confirm more benefits, including anxiety management and inflammation control.

BCAA Benefits: Muscle Growth and Beyond

There is evidence that BCAAs can benefit muscle mass and recovery—and some benefits that go beyond the gym.

Turkesterone: Muscle Hack or Snake Oil?

Coasting to prominence on the hype-filled train that is fitness supplement marketing, the popularizing of turkesterone is playing out ever-so predictably.

Why Every Weightlifter Needs Vitamin D

It’s that time of year when we find ourselves echoing that fateful warning forever crystallized by Game of Thrones: Winter is coming.

15 High Protein Snacks to Gain Muscle & Feel Full

We’ve got 15 of the best high protein snacks to help you gain muscle and feel full, including vegan and vegetarian, portable, or homemade options.

The 6 Best Vegan Protein Bars of 2023

We’ve evaluated the best vegan protein bars and have narrowed it down to six contenders. Pick the one that best fits your needs and budget.

Best Creatine for Women: 5 Choices For Weight Loss or Bodybuilding

We’ve evaluated the best creatine for women and have narrowed it down to five contenders. Pick the one that best fits your needs and budget.

Best Pre-Workout for Women in 2023

We’ve evaluated the best pre-workout for women and have narrowed it down to eight contenders. Pick the one that best fits your needs and budget.

The 5 Best Creatine Supplements On the Market in 2023

We’ve evaluated the best creatine supplements and have narrowed it down to five contenders. Pick the one that best fits your needs and budget.

The 5 Best Collagen Powders On The Market Right Now

We’ve evaluated the best collagen powder and have narrowed it down to five contenders. Pick the one that best fits your needs and budget.

10 Best Gluten Free Protein Bars

These top 10 best gluten-free protein bars are also delicious and made with healthy ingredients.

Is Vegan Collagen a Thing?

The Many Benefits of Marine Collagen

Are consumers being baited with the “just slap a technical-sounding keyword in front of an established product to revitalize sales” method?

Can Rapid Weight Gain Be Healthy?

It’s not just the number on the scale that can affect heart disease and diabetes risk, longevity, and other indicators of overall health, but how you get there.

The Ectomorph’s Guide to Healthy Weight Gain

Not being taken seriously is one thing, but having your struggle to gain healthy weight as an ectomorph twisted into a blessing by others is downright frustrating.

Natural Vasodilators for Athletes

Analyzing Superhero Diets: Are They Actually Healthy?

Is Intermittent Fasting Safe and Effective?

5 Tips for Gaining Weight the Healthy Way

It’s hard to preach the perils of being underweight as the phrase “obesity epidemic” ages into its fourth decade, but still, weighing too little can pose serious health risks in both short-term and long-term scenarios.

Why Medium-Chain Triglycerides Are an Athlete’s Best Friend

This macronutrient contributes heavily to brain development, communication between nerve cells, insulation and protection of sensitive tissues.

Protein for Athletes: Why, How Much, and When?

If you’ve just started paying closer attention to your protein intake for fitness and/or general wellness purposes, you may find yourself feeling overloaded with information.

Recovery

What to Mix Protein Powder With

Grab your shaker bottle and favorite protein powder, because we’re about to make protein shakes exciting again with this collection of tips and tricks for mixing up your protein powder routine.

The 6 Best Electrolyte Powders and Drinks of 2023

We’ve evaluated the best electrolyte powders and drinks and have narrowed it down to six contenders. Pick the one that best fits your needs and budget.

The 10 Best Clean Protein Powders of 2023

Here’s our list of the seven cleanest protein powders out there, including vegan options, isolates, whey protein, and more.

The 6 Best BCAA for Men

Jump to section BCAA for Men FAQs For many of us, any mention of the word “BCAA” gets shoved into

The 4 Best Vegan Protein Powders Available Today

We scoured the plant-based world for the best vegan protein powder, and these five offer clean protein sources, essential amino acids, and surprisingly good taste.

The 5 Best Whey Protein Powders On the Market

We’ve evaluated the best whey protein powders and have narrowed it down to five contenders. Pick the one that best fits your needs and budget.

The 6 Best Tasting Protein Powders On the Market

We’ve evaluated the best tasting protein powders and have narrowed it down to six contenders. Pick the one that best fits your needs and budget.

Best Protein Powder: 6 Choices for 2023

We’ve evaluated the best protein powder and have narrowed it down to six contenders. Pick the one that best fits your needs and budget.

The 7 Best Protein Powders for Women

Jump to section FAQs About Protein Powder for Women Protein is vital for everybody to consume, but many people just

Bovine Collagen: Benefits, Types, and Side Effects

Bovine collagen is one of the most abundant forms of collagen, providing four primary benefits in multiple forms with few side effects.

BCAA Benefits: Muscle Growth and Beyond

There is evidence that BCAAs can benefit muscle mass and recovery—and some benefits that go beyond the gym.

Natural Muscle Relaxers

Natural muscle relaxers can alleviate the pain associated with tight muscles consistently and effectively when used correctly.

Turkesterone: Muscle Hack or Snake Oil?

Coasting to prominence on the hype-filled train that is fitness supplement marketing, the popularizing of turkesterone is playing out ever-so predictably.

Why Every Weightlifter Needs Vitamin D

It’s that time of year when we find ourselves echoing that fateful warning forever crystallized by Game of Thrones: Winter is coming.

15 High Protein Snacks to Gain Muscle & Feel Full

We’ve got 15 of the best high protein snacks to help you gain muscle and feel full, including vegan and vegetarian, portable, or homemade options.

The 6 Best Vegan Protein Bars of 2023

We’ve evaluated the best vegan protein bars and have narrowed it down to six contenders. Pick the one that best fits your needs and budget.

5 Best Turmeric Supplements of 2023

We’ve evaluated the best turmeric supplements and have narrowed it down to five contenders. Pick the one that best fits your needs and budget.

Is Vegan Collagen a Thing?

The Many Benefits of Marine Collagen

Are consumers being baited with the “just slap a technical-sounding keyword in front of an established product to revitalize sales” method?

Best Foods for Post-Workout Recovery

Anyone who has taken more than one hiatus from exercise knows that it’s not that first return workout that you should be afraid of, but the day after.

Is Intermittent Fasting Safe and Effective?

Is Turmeric Worth the Hype?

Turmeric inhabits an interesting place (or rather, several places) in the ever-evolving health supplement industry.

Electrolytes for Energy and More: A Beginner’s Guide

Protein for Athletes: Why, How Much, and When?

If you’ve just started paying closer attention to your protein intake for fitness and/or general wellness purposes, you may find yourself feeling overloaded with information.