In long events women often outperform men. Is this because their metabolism is better suited for endurance?

I spent several years of my life (a while ago) investigating a potential role of MCT for athletes and because there appears to be a...

Fat burning is always a hot topic and we seem obsessed with it. Treadmills tell you when you are in your "fat burning zone", some heart...

A popular nutrition supplement with claims to help weight loss and fat burning is the seaweed extract fucoxanthin. Sometimes it is the...

What is better for performance: a high fat diet or a high carbohydrate? This is a questions that is discussed over and over. Let me state...

In a previous blog entitled how fat burning works, I set out what we mean by “fat burning”. Judging from the social media conversations...

Recently, I came across an article that has the promising title “Another reason to drink wine: It could help you burn fat, study...

Which athlete does not want to be the "lean mean fighting machine"? Burning fat is often talked about as the road to becoming such a...

Fat burning or fat oxidation (the term preferred by scientists) is of interest to endurance athletes and other athletes. Non-athletes who...