Nutrition Corner

Why potatoes are our new carb heroes – and how to eat them healthily: New research suggests that contrary to popular belief, potatoes can be good for you – as long as you cook them right.

Mediterranean diet meal ideas from Spanish dietitian: Try this full day of Mediterranean diet meals.

Recipe for The Day

Chicken Parmesan alla Vodka Recipe: This recipe combines chicken Parmesan with creamy vodka sauce for a delicious twist on your favorite dish.

Lifestyle & Fitness Focus

4 Benefits Of Strength Training, According To Experts

• Increase Muscle Size and Strength: Strength training can help increase muscle size and strength. It also helps increase power—the combination of speed and strength—and can help the person training perform better in sports or other physical activities.

• Improve Cardiovascular Health: Strength training can help improve cardiovascular function by strengthening the heart and lungs, as the heart is a muscle that requires regular exercise to stay healthy and strong.

• Increase Bone Density: Strength training can increase bone density and decrease overall bone loss by helping to stimulate bone growth and increase the strength of existing bones.

• Stabilize and Protect Joints: Joint health is essential for maintaining an active, healthy lifestyle. Knees, hips and shoulders are all vulnerable to injury and disease, such as osteoarthritis—especially as people age. Strength training can help increase the stability and strength of the joints, which can prevent injuries and improve overall function

5 Proven Health Benefits of Eating Eggs

• Incredibly nutritious: Eggs are among the most nutritious foods on the planet. A whole egg contains all the nutrients required to turn a single cell into a baby chicken.

• High in cholesterol, but don’t adversely affect blood cholesterol: It is true that eggs are high in cholesterol. In fact, a single egg contains 186 mg.

• Raise HDL (the “good”) cholesterol: HDL stands for high-density lipoprotein. It is often known as the “good” cholesterol. People who have higher levels of HDL usually have a lower risk of heart disease, stroke and other health problems.

• Contain choline — an important nutrient that most people don’t get enough of: Choline is a nutrient that most people don’t even know exists, yet it is an incredibly important substance and is often grouped with the B vitamins.

• Are linked to a reduced risk of heart disease: LDL cholesterol is generally known as the “bad” cholesterol. It is well known that having high levels of LDL is linked to an increased risk of heart disease.

4 Science-Backed Benefits of Squats You Should Know

• A Higher Vertical: Squats improve our ability to jump. How? Since we’re strengthening all of the lower extremities, we’re increasing our ability to produce power (stronger and better-conditioned muscle equals better power output).

• Squats Develop Bigger, Stronger Legs Muscles: This probably isn’t a surprise. After all, the squat is a leg-focused movement that requires your major lower-body muscles to work in tandem.

• Improved Core Strength: When you’re holding weight and moving through multiple planes of motion, the body must work hard to remain stable and not fall over.

• The Ability to Produce More Power: Squats increase our ability to jump, but they also increase our ability to produce power when done explosively, such as in the jump squat.

4 Best Arm Toning Exercises And Arm Workouts With Weights

• Dips: A bodyweight burner that should be a staple in every trainees arsenal. Stretch deep into the bottom of each rep to blow up your chest, but lower yourself slowly- before exploding back up- to share the glory with your triceps. Jump on a set of ring to double down on the gains, or add weight.

• Chin-Ups: By switching from a wide, overhand grip to a closer, ‘supinated’ or ‘palms facing’ grip, your biceps are drafted in to assist the muscles of your upper back and lats. If you could do just one exercise to pump up those bi’s— this is it.

• Floor Press: Ditch the bench to blow up those arms. By shortening the range of motion versus a traditional bench press, your chest isn’t able to get the type of stretch that helps to blast the bar back upwards, instead it calls on your triceps to keep driving the rep count up. Keep your arms close to your body for extra tricep stimulus.

• Underhand Barbell Row: Just like the chin-up, gripping your barbell with a slightly closer, underhand grip brings the biceps into play to a greater degree in this back building classic, loved by old-school bodybuilders. Squeeze those pythons hard at the top of each rep to establish the coveted ‘mind/muscle connection’.

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