ICON Meals Blog

Rx: Anti-Inflamatory Nutrition

Whether in the gym or on the job, injuries are bound to occur. Even with taking precautions such as stretching and warming up be before a lift session or wearing sturdy shoes during a basketball game, sometimes injuries are inescapable. Regardless if it’s a sprained wr...

Is Gluten-Free For Me?

Gluten is a general name for the proteins found in wheat (wheatberries, durum, emmer, semolina, spelt, farina, farro, graham, KAMUT® khorasan wheat and einkorn), rye, barley and triticale – a cross between wheat and rye. Gluten helps foods maintain their shape, acting as a glue that holds f...

What Are The Benefits Of Probiotics?

The gut microbiome is host to more than 1000 bacterial SPECIES that encode for more than 5 million genes. They perform many of the important functions of the gut, like aid in the digestion of foods, immune system development, vitamin synthesis, and ion absorption. When your microbiome becom...

Conquer The Weekend

Friday at last! You might be just counting down the seconds until your work week is behind you and a couple days of decompression and release is in your near future. We all have our lazy weekends, but the key is to not have one EVERY weekend. If you’re o...

Fuel Up On Food

If a car or truck requires specialty fuel like premium or diesel, an owner wouldn’t fill it with regular gas. When thinking of the body as a special mode of transportation, the types of food put into it should become more important. Different types of food provide the ...

Solid Training Advice from a Toddler

My son, Eastan, just turned a year old. And it’s been an incredible first year as a parent. There’s nothing in the world like watching your child grow and explore the world around him. As much as he’s learning something new every single day, I’m learning from him. Look...