UAN: Article type:++add book link at top++ -->This is adapted from the book, Eat Smart, Play Hard, by RW USA Nutrition Editor Liz Applegate. You can find ginseng everywhere: in sports drinks, iced tea, herbal supplements, and energy gels. Used

,500 milligrams a day. That amounts to three to five glasses of milk a day. If you don’t think you’re getting that much from food, consider a 500-milligram supplement. Taking the supplement with dinner will ensure the best absorption because for most people

careful attention to your intake.Before you start taking supplements, however, try getting more iron in your diet. To reach the recommended amount, which is 10 milligrams for men, 15 milligrams for women age 50 and under, and 10 milligrams for women over

showing that chromium supplementation (in the form of chromium picolinate) improved muscle gains during strength training. Yet in a well-designed study on football players, those who weight trained 4 days a week while taking 200 micrograms of chromium saw

UAN: Article type:++add book link at top++ -->This is adapted from the book, Eat Smart, Play Hard, by RW USA Nutrition Editor Liz Applegate. Creatine may be one of the best-selling supplements ever, with more than $100 million in annual sales

is allergic to soy, you probably don’t need to supplement with protein shakes or energy bars.

who took the pyruvate supplement lost about 1 pound of fat."There may be a benefit to taking pyruvate, perhaps at higher doses than used in this experiment," Dr. Kreider notes. "But more research needs to be done, particularly since we found such a

: Supplementation may be the best way to ensure that you get your DV for zinc. Look for a multivitamin/mineral supplement that contains no more than the DV. Remember that high-fiber foods and the tannins found in coffee, some teas, and wine can hamper zinc

UAN: Article type:++add book link at top++ -->This is adapted from the book, Eat Smart, Play Hard, by RW USA Nutrition Editor Liz Applegate. Log on to the Internet, flip through a fitness magazine, or cruise the supplement aisles in a health food

-related aspects of ailments such as heart disease and cancer. Studies also show that vitamin E supplementation – often at the level of about 400 IU a day – may help protect you from the oxidative damage caused by endurance exercise. This free radical