Opening an athletic magazine today we are met with diets, supplements, and energy boosters, all designed with excelling at a particular sport in mind. Gone are the days of the well-rounded gentleman athlete that Baron Pierre de Coubertin had in mind when he sought to re-establish the Olympic Games in 1894. The amateurs those…

The Caveman Diet, also known as the Paleodiet or the Stone Age Diet, came to prominence in a world where carbohydrates were being proclaimed the most evil macronutrient in the world. As a historical diet (fallacy #1) with very little carbohydrate (fallacy #2) it was touted as the “natural” human diet (fallacy #3). But,…