Health, Fitness & Human Performance
Eating for health and performance, without the noise.
11 topics · 11 curated works
No prior grounding assumed.
Myths, Presumptions, and Facts About Obesity
Krista Casazza et al. · 2013
Grades common weight-management beliefs — that small sustained changes produce large long-term weight loss, that breakfast prevents obesity, that…
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Water, Hydration and Health
Barry M. Popkin, Kristen E. D'Anci & Irwin H. Rosenberg · 2010
Reviews what hydration status actually does to performance and cognition, and finds the evidence for a fixed daily water target far weaker than the…
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11 works
Krista Casazza et al.
Grades common weight-management beliefs — that small sustained changes produce large long-term weight loss, that breakfast prevents obesity, that setting unrealistic goals is counterproductive — against the trial evidence, and finds most unsupported or contradicted.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Rafael de Cabo & Mark P. Mattson
Reviews the animal and human trial evidence for intermittent fasting and argues that the metabolic switch from glucose to ketone burning during a fast, not simple calorie reduction, drives most of the measured benefit.
Barry M. Popkin, Kristen E. D'Anci & Irwin H. Rosenberg
Reviews what hydration status actually does to performance and cognition, and finds the evidence for a fixed daily water target far weaker than the advice built on it.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Kevin D. Hall, Steven B. Heymsfield, Joan W. Kemnitz, Samuel Klein, Dale A. Schoeller & John R. Speakman
Sets out why body weight does not respond to a fixed calorie deficit the way simple arithmetic predicts, because energy expenditure itself adapts as intake and body composition change.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Celeste E. Naude et al.
Pools randomised trials comparing low-carbohydrate and balanced diets matched for calories and finds no meaningful difference in weight or cardiovascular risk markers, against the strong claims made for carbohydrate restriction specifically.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Mark Lemstra, Yelena Bird, Chijioke Nwankwo, Marla Rogers & John Moraros
Pools weight-loss trials and finds adherence rates fall below half within a year regardless of diet type, and that intervention features like frequent contact and group support predict adherence far more than the diet's macronutrient design.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Ralf Jäger et al.
Reviews the trial evidence on protein intake for people who train and concludes the effective range is higher than general dietary guidelines assume but lower than bodybuilding folklore assumes.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Alan A. Aragon et al.
Compares the trial evidence behind competing diet approaches and concludes adherence and total protein and energy intake predict body composition change far better than macronutrient ratios do.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Marie-Pierre St-Onge et al.
Reviews the trial evidence on meal frequency, breakfast skipping and intermittent fasting and concludes none is reliably shown to affect cardiovascular risk once total intake is held constant, against strong popular claims for each.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Chad M. Kerksick et al.
Grades the evidence behind the sports-supplement market ingredient by ingredient, and finds only a handful — creatine and caffeine among them — clear the bar for a real, repeatable effect.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Juma Iraki, Peter Fitschen, Sergio Espinar & Eric Helms
Sets a modest surplus and a slow rate of weight gain against the aggressive bulking traditionally practised in bodybuilding, arguing the difference is mostly fat gained rather than muscle.
link checked 17 Sept 2026This subject genuinely sits in more than one domain. These fields approach the same ground with different methods.