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    How to Become a Fat-Adapted Cyclist: Training
    Health & Training

    Well-planned training sessions can positively affect the fat adaptation process. With optimized lifestyle and dialed in diet you can start incorporating rides that will test and improve your ability to burn fat. Let’s look at how such training sessions look like and how to fuel…

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    How to Become a Fat-Adapted Cyclist: Diet
    Health & Training

    When it comes to fat adaptation, nutrition is the most important piece of the puzzle. Changes in what you eat during the whole day and before and after a training session will have the biggest impact on your success. Let’s look at how it works…

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    Why Fat Is the Superior Fuel for Endurance Sports
    Health & Training

    What if carbohydrates are not the best fuel? What if it’s actually fat that’s always been the superior choice? In the second part of the fat adapted cyclist series you will learn how the human body replenishes energy and why fat is our preferred fuel…

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    Is There a Better Antioxidant than Coffee?
    Health & Training

    Coffee is often praised for its antioxidative capabilities. How does it compare to other popular antioxidant sources like chocolate, wine, berries, or various spices? How many antioxidants do we need per day? Is coffee enough?

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    Meat – To eat or not to eat?
    Health & Training

    What are the pros and cons of eating meat? We know from previous articles how important meat quality is, how it relates to risk of developing disease, and what bad habits to avoid when eating meat regularly. Now it’s time to evaluate: is meat worth…

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    Why Do Cyclists Drink So Much Coffee?
    Health & Training

    If you’ve read our Tour De France nutrition special you know that coffee is a very popular drink among the top competitors. They ingest a lot of caffeine: 6 espressos and 2 cokes in one day are not out of the norm. Why do they…

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    How to Eat Meat and Stay Healthy
    Health & Training

    Is there a right and wrong way of including meat into your diet? Even though meat is not harmful per se, we have a lot of bad habits related to its consumption. Here are four to-dos for everyone who eats meat on a regular basis.

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