Guide · Training
What to eat after a workout (and what to skip)
You did the hard part. Don't hand it back in the next ten minutes.
Eat this
Real food. No label to read.
Skip this
Sold to you for exactly this moment.
The one rule. If it came in a wrapper with a health claim on it, read the back.
If it came out of the fridge, you already know what's in it.
The receipts
Short version, with the links.
- Protein powder is where the problem is.
A lab tested 160 powders from 70 top brands. 79% of the organic ones and 77% of the
plant-based ones went over California's lead limit. Chocolate had up to 110× the cadmium
of vanilla. Clean Label Project ·
CNN.
Worth knowing that the supplement industry
calls
the report misleading, and most failures are against California's limit, not the
federal one.
- Nobody approved your supplement.
The FDA "is not authorized to approve dietary supplements for safety and effectiveness
before they are marketed."
FDA.
- Sports drinks are for long sessions.
Under about 60–90 minutes, water does the same job.
American College of
Sports Medicine.
KamranDad, health geek, builder