In the second half of the first decade of the new century, nu-tritionally potent Performance Foods are the biggest thing to hit bodybuilding since the introduc-tion of protein powder back in 1964. Science and production know-how have finally caught up with pent up need. A new wave of products are available that are not supplements in the classical sense. These products are : nutritionally sound, beneficial for bodybuilders, infused with sweet-ness and delicious taste yet they do not resort to sugar to achieve their flavor. This is revolutionary on sev-eral levels: taste trips up more body-builders than any other single factor. Bodybuilders generally love weight training and most enjoy cardio and the biggest failure factor is disciplined eating. Bodybuilders might love to lift weights and might perform aerobics until the proverbial cows come home but unless they can conquer their love affair with taste (salty foods, sweet foods, foods loaded with satu-rated fats, refined carbohydrate foods) about the best they can hope for is to end up muscular, well-conditioned yet still fat!

Christmas had come and gone. For Christmas Eve, we had the traditional dinner at my sister-in-law’s house. Traditional, that is, if you were raised in Puerto Rico, as most of her husband’s family was. The house was packed wall to wall, and the stereo blasting salsa and meringue music at ear-splitting levels was accompanied by a makeshift band play-ing bongos, a trumpet, and some odd instruments that involved banging a cowbell and scraping a ridged piece of wood. The overall decibels created by this ruckus