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51 “What’s The Best?” Fitness & Nutrition Questions, Answered In One Line

Posted by Bryan DiSanto on Jul 30, 2012 in Burn It UP, Diet It UP, Featured Article, Supp It UP | 8 comments

If you haven’t already noticed, the world of fitness, nutrition, and supplements is complicated and overly confusing.

Naturally, that produces myriad questions with even more answers — many of which are conflicting and ambiguous.

While explanations, studies, research, and methodology are fantastic and necessary, sometimes you just want a simple solution spoon-fed directly into your belly (or better yet, the heart of your abs).

It’s time to cut to the chase. I’m aiming to answer 51 of the top “what’s the best?” fitness/nutrition/supplement-related FAQs in as direct of a way as possible. I’m talking about one-line simple.

Which exercise is the best for incinerating fat? What’s the healthiest food on EARTH? What’s the best pump-up workout song of 2012? Which protein powder gives the best bang for your buck?

These questions and 47 others answered on the following pages. Basque in the simplicity.

Top 51 Burning Fitness & Nutrition Questions: 1-10

Diet & Nutrition, Part 1

1. What's the Best Vitamin A Food?

Red Hot Chili Peppers

*Not the band* Carrot, squash, and mangoes are all up there, but red hot chili peppers reign king in the vitamin A kingdom.

100 grams: 21 calories, 238% DV, 11,892 IU vitamin A

2. What's the Best Vitamin C Food?

Acerola / West Indian Cherry

For just 31 calories the acerola packs a stunning 2,740% of the daily value for vitamin C; a major antioxidant that can boost immunity.

1 cup: 31 calories, 2740% DV, 1644 mg vitamin C

3. What's the Best Vitamin D Food?

Oysters

Oysters contain significantly more vitamin D per calorie than milk, cheese, or yogurt.

1 cup: 169 calories, 198% DV, 794 IU vitamin D

4. What's the Best Vitamin E Food?

Spinach

Vitamin E is typically found in its highest concentrations in fortified cereals and grains, but as far as all-natural foods go, spinach is as good as it gets.

~ 4 cups: 200 calories, 100% DV, 20 mg vitamin E

5. What's the Best Vitamin K Food?

Swiss Chard

With 374% of the daily value in just 7 calories, Swiss chard packs more vitamin K per calorie than spinach, kale, or any other vegetable.

1 cup: 7 calories, 374% DV, 299 mcg vitamin K

6. What's the Best Source Of Omega-3's?

Flaxseed Oil and Flaxseeds

Flaxseed oil is one of the healthiest foods on earth and pure liquid, nutritious gold.

1 ounce: 248 calories, 14,925 mg omega-3

7. What's the Healthiest Nut?

Walnuts

Nutritionally, walnuts have significantly higher antioxidant and omega-3 content than their better known cousin, the almond.

1 ounce: 183 calories, 2542 mg omega-3, 4g protein, 13,541 ORAC antioxidant content

8. What's the Healthiest Dessert?

Arctic Zero Frozen Yogurt

Only 150 calories and 20 grams of sugar in the ENTIRE pint, with 8 grams of fiber and 14 grams of whey protein to boot. Tastes good too.

9. What's the Healthiest Yogurt?

Icelandic, specifically Siggi’s Plain Icelandic Skyr

High protein, low sugar, non-fat, calcium-laden, zero artificial ingredients, and 5 live cultures — yogurt doesn’t get much healthier or pure than that.

100 calories, 17 g protein, 5g sugar, 20% DV calcium, 5 active cultures

10. What's the Best Source of Antioxidants?

Acai Berry

Acai berry has the highest antioxidant content of any whole food, as measured by ORAC value (the standard measure of antioxidant content) — 102,700 μ mol TE/100g.

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Bryan DiSanto is the Owner & Editor-in-Chief of Lean It UP, ACE-CPT & CSN, NYU graduate, ex-fat kid, and all-around fitness/nutrition nutjob.

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dr Funzo

You need to look into Quest bars, they blow larabars out of the water.

If you compare the two they are not even close.

Good looking list other than that.
- https://www.leanit-up.com/ Bryan @ Lean It UP
  
  @dr Funzo See number 23…
  - dr Funzo
    
    @Bryan @ Lean It UP @dr
    Nice, I saw prepackaged bar to me that means Protein bar lol
    - https://www.leanit-up.com/ Bryan @ Lean It UP
      
      @dr That’s a completely fair point, I should probably make it more specific — it’s now “Best Fruit & Nut Bar”
Melanie M.

Cardio before weights or vice versa if I want to do a combo day at the gym?
- https://www.leanit-up.com/ Bryan DiSanto
  
  Always weights/resistance training before cardio on combo days.
  
  1. Lifting performance drops dramatically when you do a cardio session beforehand — it depletes stored energy that’s critical for muscular strength/endurance.
  
  2. Lifting and then doing cardio (preferably HIIT) manipulates stored energy levels in such a way that it amplifies your body’s ability to burn fat, making it a lot more efficient.
doubledeuce80

Do you still think pure protein is the best RTD shake on the market? What about the new isopure RTD shakes?
- https://www.leanit-up.com/ Bryan DiSanto
  
  They’re close, but I’m still a bigger fan of Pure Protein. Don’t love the flavor of Isopure or the added arti. colors.

51 “What’s The Best?” Fitness & Nutrition Questions, Answered In One Line