My son is an active teen and soccer player. This year he sustained two concussions within a five month period--the latest one was from a soccer match, and the earlier concussion was from messing around with boxing gloves and friends--apparently the "invincibility factor" teens possess causes failure to see consequences to their actions where boxing in ANY form is concerned. D'OH! Don't get me wrong, my son is actually far more responsible and mature than most kids his age. He

You have good intentions. You eat pretty healthy, stay in shape and exercise regularly, but sometimes you get derailed-- you are either on an airplane headed away on business or vacation, you've just had (another) holiday, or you are running around 24/7 between work/family/school/other, wishing for just one extra hour in the day to get it all done AND workout! And then you just fall off the wagon. Sound familiar? Here is what Craig Weller at Precision Nutrition has written up

So you hear it ALL the time (from my husband especially...) "Veggies taste like DIRT!" OR "Veggies are yucky!" OR "I want to eat healthy but does that mean I need to eat those green things that taste bitter?" Ok, people! There is science behind all this and ways ADD more veggies even though you may not initially like them. The health benefits of eating vegetables are BIG. Let's see what you can do when you don't like them... Precision Nutrition has it down. Here's SOLID advic