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Five tips for eating healthy while on the road

Eating well on the road is hard. Here are some ways to make it easier.

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Coleman CollinsPosted on September 30, 2019September 30, 2019101 levelNutrition

Manage your energy, not your time

Why it’s better to work for eight focused, high-energy hours than twelve distracted, low-energy ones, and how to do so.

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Kennedy CollinsPosted on July 12, 2019July 17, 2019ExerciseMetaNutritionProductivitySleepTime Management

Bullshit detection 101, or why you don’t need to eat a bunch of small meals

You almost never find outright falsehoods in the health space — but a lot of information is outdated, decontextualized or overblown information that has been modified for its ability to sell and be repeated. Here’s how to figure out what’s worthless and what works.

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Coleman CollinsPosted on June 16, 2019July 18, 2019ExerciseMetaNutritionScience
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AMA #2: Protein myths and negative calorie foods

Welcome to the second in an ongoing series of Ask Me Anything posts, where I take questions from friends, readers, and the internet at large and do my best to answer them.

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Coleman CollinsPosted on December 21, 2018July 18, 2019AMANutrition

The best thing to eat in an airport

I don’t eat airport or airplane food unless I absolutely have to. I’d recommend you do the same — here’s why, and how.

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Coleman CollinsPosted on July 27, 2018July 31, 2018AirportsNutrition

How I lost twelve pounds in four days, and why it doesn’t matter

Weight is an at-best misleading and at-worst useless measurement for virtually everything we try and use it for. This article covers why, and what to measure instead.

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Coleman CollinsPosted on June 29, 2018June 29, 2018MetaNutritionScience

The best snacks for plane rides, according to science

The short answer is that you should eat snacks that are both dense and highly filling, but that’s a pretty tough needle to thread — we have to turn to SCIENCE! to find food that fits all those criteria.

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Kennedy CollinsPosted on June 14, 2018June 14, 2018AirportsNutritionScienceTravel

Are artificial sweeteners bad for you?

All of that stuff you’ve heard about them giving you cancer or spiking your insulin “just like sugar does” is total nonsense, but that doesn’t mean we should all suck down a half-dozen Diet Cokes a day, no matter how delicious Diet Coke is.

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Kennedy CollinsPosted on May 30, 2018July 4, 2018NutritionScience

Why Bulletproof® Coffee is bullshit

Bulletproof® founder Dave Asprey makes a lot of claims about the health benefits of Bulletproof® coffee. Here’s why they’re mostly bullshit.

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Kennedy CollinsPosted on April 5, 2018August 24, 2018NutritionScience
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Evaluating supplements: the difference between significant and valuable

A step-by-step guide for deciding what supplements to take.

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Kennedy CollinsPosted on March 9, 2018November 15, 2018NutritionScience

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