Optimum Sports Nutrition: Your Competitive Edge

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Summary: Most sane book on nutrition for athletes
Review: This is the most sane book on nutrition. There are no fad diets, and no crazy anecdotal recommendations, just scientifically based advice to enhance your athletic performance. If some supplement has marginal or unclear scientific evidence he points it out. If there are any concerns with a supplement he lists them. The correct level of supplementation is also defined according to scientific test results. Colgan is very forthright and his integrity comes through. I recommend and loan this book to all my athletic friends and they always have to buy a copy. In Optimum Sports Nutrition Colgan helps athletes seperate the truth from the anecdotal hype. I've read several of his other books and found them to be most helpful for anyone concerned with health and nutrition.

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Summary: Read with a grain of salt
Review: While I was intially impressed with the book, it did gnaw on me why the book pushes TwinLab products throughout, and all other kinds of supplements. If you take all the supplements in the book your bill will be in the hundreds of dollars. Then after further research, I discovered TwinLab published and the book and the author gets paid by them to write on a monthly basis. Unfortunately that taints all the findings in the books, and explains why so many supplements are pushed. If Colgan was honest, he would have exposed his relation with the Lab upfront, which would have made me a lot less suspicious.