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• June 7, 2012
  Heavy Metals in Protein Powder Supplements

  A Consumer Reports investigation into the safety of protein supplements found that more than half exceed the California prop 65 "Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act" action levels.
• March 5, 2012
  So Should We Drink Beet Juice or Not?

  In the context of a healthy plant-based diet, the nitrates in vegetables can safely be converted into nitric oxide, which can boost athletic performance and may help prevent heart disease.
• February 22, 2012
  Vegetables Rate by Nitrate

  If nitrates can boost athletic performance and protect against heart disease, which vegetables have the most: beans, bulb vegetables (like garlic and onions), fruiting vegetables (like eggplant and..
• February 21, 2012
  Hearts Shouldn’t Skip a Beet

  The nitrate in vegetables, which the body can turn into the vasodilator nitric oxide, may help explain the role dark green leafy vegetables play in the prevention and treatment of hypertension (high..
• February 17, 2012
  Asparagus Pee

  Young infants and perhaps those with recurrent oxalate kidney stones should avoid beets, but most commonly the chief side effect is beeturia, the harmless passage of pink urine, though not all are..
• February 16, 2012
  Out of the Lab Onto the Track

  Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover studies convinced the scientific establishment that nitrate-rich vegetables such as beets could noticeably improve athletic performance.
• February 15, 2012
  Don’t Use Antiseptic Mouthwash

  The natural flora on our tongue (lingual bacteria) is essential for the athletic performance-enhancing effect of the nitrates in vegetables such as beetroot.
• February 14, 2012
  Priming the Proton Pump

  To understand how beets could reduce the oxygen cost of exercise while improving athletic performance, one must review the biochemistry of energy production (ATP synthase) and the body's conversion..