Iranian of the Day

AP: He's simply known as Magic, Vanderbilt's food coach renowned for his skills with the Commodores' training table and his work with athletes needing to gain or shed weight.

Many people ask him for suggestions, including how to deal with teenagers and supplements, so Majid Noori finally just wrote them down.

His new book titled "Eating to Win with America's #1 Food Coach" explains how anyone from the budding athlete to the weekend warrior can create a personal training table using food already in the house. He details his concept of FREE: Food, Rest, Exercise and Education.

"We believe it's a very useful training tool," Noori said. "It's not a cookbook. It's not a nutrition book. It's a combination of a training table, how I started and all the right stuff is in there. Kids can use it as a training tool."

Noori put together Vanderbilt's first training table back in 1990. He's consulted with other Southeastern Conference schools on building their own training tables and has more than 20 years of experience using these principles to help about 300 athletes from 16 teams once a day on campus >>>