EUGENIZATION.

In her June 5th article for the Times, Gina Kolata questions the “conventional wisdom” around sports nutrition.
Here are the main assumptions that she (and the researchers she interviews) question:
1.  “As yet no convincing evidence exists that a special carbohydrate-to-protein ratio makes a noticeable difference in muscle protein maintenance after exercise. “There is no magic ratio,” [...]

If you read the Harvard Women’s Health Watch, then chances are you’ve already caught wind of a study published in the January 2008 issue of the journal Arthritis Care and Research.  This small study compared the effectiveness of strength training and general fitness training on reducing chronic work-related neck pain.
Result: The group who participated in “general [...]

Thanks to Chris from Conditioning Research for this article:
Surprise - Cholesterol May Actually Pose Benefits, Study Shows.
Yes, indeed; surprise, surprise. 
Chris has already done a very thorough write-up of the study’s results; let’s reference his comments and explore this topic a bit deeper:
1) “The team studied 55 men and women, ages 60-69, who were healthy non-smokers and were able to [...]

(Image Credit: Julielohre.com)
It’s been a longstanding tradition (well, longstanding from a bodybuilder’s perspective, anyway) that each individual muscle group has to be blitzed, bombed, and blasted in order to get the most out of it. In other words, there’s no way for you to really work a given muscle group unless you devote an [...]

What’s more important - theory or practice?
Just because it “works on paper”, does it “work?” And just because “it works”, does it “work?”
Just what the heck am I talking about?
I’m referring to the so-called Diet Debate on CNN’s The Larry King Show that Gary Taubes, Mehmet Oz, Jillian Michaels, and Andrew Weil engaged in. [...]