Archive for the 'nutrition' Category

Interview: P. Z. Pierce - Ironman medical director

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

Please write few sentences to introduce yourself…
I am P.Z. Pearce, Sports Medicine Physician, and President of Champions Sports Medicine in Spokane, Washington. I am Medical Director of Ironman Coeur d’Alene, Arizona, and Medical Coordinator of Ironman Hawaii. I am also Medical Director of Bloomsday, one of the largest Road Races in America, and work [...]

Solgar Whey to go protein

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007

I always had trouble with commercial protein shakes. I am very sensitive to chemicals in food so I am always searching for things that can go down nice and clean. Today I tried Solgar Whey to go Vanilla. It is an organic whey protein. I was actually almost scared before I had to try it.

Effectivness of vitamins

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

From Diet-Blog.com:
In 2005 alone the American Association of Poison Control Centers received 125,595 incident reports related to vitamins, minerals, essential oils, herbs and other supplements. About half of these were related to vitamins alone. Echinacea was linked to 483 adverse reactions.
All I can say is that the more I read the more lost I am [...]

Chromium on TriCape.com

Friday, January 12th, 2007

I wrote a very confusing and long article about Chromium and muesli at my new triathlon blog TriCape.com.
Please comment on that article, I would really like to collect some nutrition experiences, even if they are not about Chromium directly…
Btw that blog is localized for South Africa but from time to time it will have a [...]

Ironman diet: Full fat dairy weight loss

Monday, January 8th, 2007

For northern hemisphere it is a time for base training. Doing distances and burning fat. Now is the time to shed those kilos we all accumulated during our brake.
OK not all of us, there are those few that can practice amazing discipline and not gain a gram while not training. I am not one of [...]