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Nutrition / Diet Website Links A selection of useful nutrition / diet website links and resources. Please note that Medical News Today is not responsible for the content on any of these external websites. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Calorie Count A site offering free nutritional information on a wide range of foods - including information on fat, protein and sugar for each item of food listed. http://www.calorie-count.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Diet Nation This site has reviews of a large number of popular diets, free weight loss programs and also offers diet advice. http://www.dietnation.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Diet Reviews Reviews of lifestyle diets, calorie counting, diet pills and more http://www.dietsinreview.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Every Diet A comprehensive site examining over 100 diets, including reviews of dieters. http://www.everydiet.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Food Safety Preventive tips about how to handle food safely and alerts on life-saving food recalls. http://www.foodsafety.gov/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Lose Weight - Your Health Online Well researched site looking at some of the weight loss options available - including benefits and risks associated with each method. http://loseweight.yourhealthonline.info/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
NUTRA Ingredients .com Information on Supplements & Nutrition http://www.nutraingredients.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The World's Healthiest Foods In-depth information about 130 healthy foods - including preparation information and recipe ideas. http://www.whfoods.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Post-Workout Drinks When it's time to choose a liquid chug after a long, tough workout, there's a slew of options out there. Water? Gatorade, POWERade, or All Sport? Endurox R4? Physiologist Joel Stager, director of the Human Performance laboratory at Indiana University, has even one more potential workout recovery drink to add to the list: chocolate milk. His latest study, published in this month's International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism, names this kids' favorite an optimal post-exercise recovery aid.
Before your stomach recoils, take a look at chocolate milk's ingredient list. For a high-endurance athlete, Stager's team sees it as a catch-all workout recovery drink. Compared to plain milk, water, or most sports drinks, it has double the carbohydrate and protein content, perfect for replenishing tired muscles. Its high water content replaces fluids lost as sweat, preventing dehydration. Plus it packs a nutritional bonus of calcium, and includes just a little sodium and sugar -- additives that help recovering athletes retain water and regain energy.
Drinking plain water after exercise replaces sweat losses -- and that's it. "Chocolate milk provides carbohydrate replenishment to your muscles -- something they can metabolize," said Jason Karp, MS, another researcher for this study. "There's nothing to metabolize in water."
Stager's assessment of chocolate milk is even simpler. "It's water plus a whole lot more," he said.
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