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For a More Measured Existence

We love a good a steak, but eating healthy on a regular basis is still unquestionably a top priority. The Perfect Portions Digital Scale ($52) gives you the ability to monitor your nutrition easily thanks to its familiar Nutrition Facts label which can display key food stats like calories, fats, carbs, and sugars for close [...]

Smal Bar, Big Taste

Being in college and eating a fulfilling, healthy meal is about as hard as narrowing down the long list of analogies the long list of analogies that I mercifully chose not to insert here. Luckily, I’ve had Clif Bars. The small chunks of goodness are easy to pack, offer a disproportionately huge amount of protein, [...]

Strong Enough for Livestrong, Strong Enough For You

If you’ve been on ESPN.com in the last few months, there’s no doubt you’ve seen the ads for FRS featuring an uber-ripped Lance Armstrong. FRS (Free Radical Scavenger) is being touted as the next best thing in the supplement world. The key ingredient this time, Quercetin, is an antioxidant found in blueberries, apples, and grapes; [...]

Today we tackle a domain over which all men love to preside… meal time. Somewhere, somehow the expectation has develop that real men eat steak and potatoes and always go back for seconds. Our culture has been inundated with processed foods, preservatives, and all manor of things that are intended to make food cheap and [...]

No type-o, they’re actually called Balance Bare. The new 100 calorie nutritional energy bar from Balance comes in several sweet & salty or trail mix combinations ranging from Chocolate Almond to Cinnamon Oats & Honey The bars contain: 13g of protein 5g of whole grain 23 vitamins and minerals Whole grain oats and real nuts [...]