Lifting is great and some people enjoy the soreness they feel the next day after an intense workout while others really can't stand it -- especially if they did a crazy leg workout. But you know the phrase: You can feel sore or you can feel sorry. Feeling sore can offer a sense of achievement. Still, it's important to recover from many long training sessions, so try incorporating the foods below to recuperate more quickly.

Why Do I Feel Sore? Many people feel the soreness but aren't sure where the pain comes from. The question that I get most often is, "How come I feel sore the day after, but not that same day?" The answer is Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS). So what causes this? When you work out, you are creating tiny tears in your muscles. This is normally a result of high intensity exercises such as heavy lifting or sprinting. Your muscles then want to recover, so they begin to heal themselves. Consuming an adequate amount of protein and nutrients, while giving your body enough time to rest helps accomplish this; and your muscles are built during this phase. That's why recovery days are very important.

1) Whole Grain Cereal: You may have heard that you should eat carbs before a workout, which is true, but you should also consume them after as well. Carbohydrates can help your body fight the fatigue that it feels after a workout by restoring your glycogen stores. When you exercise, you are using up all of your glycogen stores (or energy stores.) It's really important to replenish them after a workout so that you do not experience that sleepy feeling. Any carbohydrate snack will do but whole grains are always the best choice.

2) Cherries: Cherries are kind of like a magical fruit. They have many anti-inflammatory properties, which are really important for relieving muscle soreness. The antioxidant that gives cherries this healing ability is called anthocyanins. Many athletes consume tart…

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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Congress has invented a new extreme sport: Skating on the edge of a $7 trillion fiscal cliff.

That's the magnitude of tax increases and spending cuts that will start to hit the economy on Jan. 1, 2013, unless Congress acts.

And how Congress navigates that fiscal cliff will affect economic growth, Americans' wallets and the country's fiscal outlook. (Fiscal cliff: What should Congress do?)

"There is about $7 trillion there that ... could be taken out of the economy in a really stupid way that would likely push us into a recession immediately," said Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

Indeed, economist Mark Zandi estimates that inaction by Congress could chop 3 percentage points off inflation-adjusted economic growth in 2013. In that scenario, he estimates the economy would stop growing.

On the other hand, simply extending all the expiring tax policies and canceling the spending cuts could add more than $7 trillion to the country's debt over 10 years. While that would boost growth in 2013, it would hurt the economy by the end of the decade.

Of course, anyone with a modicum of common sense would prefer a more finessed approach. "We have to come up with a compromise to thread this needle," said MacGuineas, who appeared at a recent conference.

But few observers think that will happen…

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Among fathers with a wife in the workforce, 32% took care of their kids at least one day a week in 2010, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, which looked at families with children under 15 years old. That's up from 26% in 2002.

Of those with kids under the age of 5, 20% of dads in 2010 were the primary caretaker.

Not only has it become more necessary for men to pitch in at home, but fathers have also become more available to do so. "It's a combination of mothers going to work and fathers being out of work as a result of the recession," said Lynda Laughlin, a family demographer at the Census Bureau.

Men were particularly hard hit by the steep job losses during that time, losing 4 million jobs since 2007, while women lost just over 2 million during the same time period, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

While men have since gained back a majority of those jobs during the recovery, their unemployment rate -- at 8.3% in March -- is still above the national average of 8.2%.

Many find that having one parent at home does have its advantages, especially as child care costs continue to climb.

Couples do the math and realize that it makes more financial sense for one spouse to stay home with the kids. And while it's often the woman who decides to…

They are public school employees who have been holding down multiple jobs. Now that they've won tens of millions of dollars in a historic lottery, they could stop. But instead, the self-declared "Three Amigos," who share a winning Mega Millions ticket, plan to keep their fortune a secret -- and keep working.

"If it can't be you, these are precisely the people that you would want to see win the lottery," said Stephen Martino, director of the Maryland Lottery, announcing Tuesday that the holders of the ticket purchased in Maryland had come forward.

Because the state allows winners to remain anonymous, their students and co-workers may never know.

Each of the three will get $35 million after taxes, because they chose to take the lump sum rather than annual payments.

Three winning tickets were sold nationally in the March 30 drawing, which had a record $656 million pre-tax payout. Besides the Maryland ticket, another winning ticket was sold in Kansas, and the third in Illinois.

The Kansas winner came forward last week, but chose to remain anonymous. In Illinois, no winner has come forward, but the ticket holder has a year to do so. The state does not allow winners to remain anonymous.

The winners in Maryland are a woman in her 20s, a man in his 40s, and a woman in her 50s, Martino said.

They are an elementary school teacher, a special education teacher, and an administrative worker.…

The Internet Engineering Task Force is meeting this week to discuss the future of the internet, and ways to make it faster and more responsive. If Microsoft has anything to say about it, that future will involve the replacement of the familiar HTTP standard with something much faster.

The existing HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol) is the computer language by which computers communicate with each other on the web. It's been the workhorse of the internet for over 15 years, but with the internet having evolved so much since, it's generally agreed by tech experts that a more modern, faster approach is needed — an HTTP 2.0, if you will.

Already, Google has proposed a replacement for the HTTP standard named SPDY (short for SPeeDY) that would boost the speed of the web by 50%. The new Microsoft standard, which lacks a marketing-friendly name, isn't necessary a competitor with Google's proposed standard, but a complement to it. It would go a step beyond web browsers, focusing on optimizing the internet for mobile apps as well. There's no schedule for implementation of the new standard, so a faster web may still be a long time away.

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With President Barack Obama's landmark health care law in the balance, the divided Supreme Court on Tuesday questioned whether the measure properly regulates commerce or overreaches the Constitution and allows Washington to improperly force Americans to eat their vegetables.

Justice Anthony Kennedy, whose questioning is closely watched because he represents a potential swing vote, posed several skeptical queries to the Obama administration's lawyer.

"Can you create commerce in order to regulate it?" he asked. "I understand we must presume laws are constitutional" until it is demonstrated otherwise, he told Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, representing the administration. But he said the administration has "a heavy burden of justification."

[Related: Can Obamacare survive without the individual mandate?]

Conservative Justice Antonin Scalia sharply questioned whether the Obama administration's requirement that Americans have health insurance or pay a penalty—the so-called "individual mandate" at the heart of the law—might mean that "therefore you (the government) can make people buy broccoli."

Verrilli told the court that the law regulated health insurance, the means of payment for health care, while "broccoli is not the means of payment for anything else."

"The market does not provide" affordable health insurance for some 40 million people, Verrilli declared in his opening argument. "The system does not work."

At the heart of the debate was whether the Constitution's so-called "Commerce Clause"—which gives Congress the power to regular interstate commerce—makes the Affordable Care Act constitutional.

Chief Justice John Roberts asked Verrilli whether Washington could compel…

U.S. gas prices jumped more than 11 cents per gallon over the past two weeks, but may be peaking as the price of crude oil holds steady, according to the latest Lundberg Survey.

The average price of U.S. regular gasoline rose to $3.93 per gallon, up from just over $3.81 in the last Lundberg Survey on March 9. But survey publisher Trilby Lundberg said prices declined about a penny per gallon in California, where fuel costs are typically the highest, and crude oil prices have remained fairly steady in March.

"If crude oil prices do not spike again, then gasoline prices will be peaking very soon. They may already be doing so," Lundberg said. "It will depend almost entirely on crude, as usual, but if they stay where they are, the peak may well turn out to be under $4 per gallon."

Average U.S. gasoline prices have climbed by 36 cents per gallon over the past year. But with demand still relatively weak and nearly one-fifth of U.S. refinery capacity idled, the U.S. gasoline market "is not strong enough to spike on its own," Lundberg said.

"The market is well supplied and looking well supplied into the future," she said.

The latest Lundberg survey canvassed about 2,500 filling stations in the continental United States on Friday. The cheapest average gas prices in Lundberg's were in Tulsa, Oklahoma, at $3.58 per gallon, while Chicago had the most expensive at $4.56.

Average per-gallon prices in other cities:…

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Call it the most profitable bank in the world.

The Federal Reserve once again made a hefty profit in 2011, as the central bank went on a bond buying binge to stimulate the economy.

The Fed earned $77.4 billion last year, according to financial statements released to the public Tuesday. And yes, they were audited (by Deloitte and Touche).

While that's a slight tick down from the Fed's 2010 earnings, it's still a massive figure.

To put it in perspective, consider this: Last year, the Fed earned more than America's top five largest banks -- JPMorgan Chase (JPM, Fortune 500), Bank of America (BAC, Fortune 500), Citigroup (C, Fortune 500), Wells Fargo (WFC, Fortune 500) and Goldman Sachs (GS,…