tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44472491235196583472024-03-16T08:08:59.659+01:00SuppVersity - Nutrition and Exercise Science for EveryoneWhere BRO- and PRO-Science Unite in the Spirit of True WisdomAdel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comBlogger26219999tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-55017729539535088002020-03-31T05:17:00.001+02:002020-03-31T06:04:36.709+02:00Alternate Day Fasting & Classic Dieting: Same >5% Weight Loss in 57 vs. 67 Days W/ Unwittingly Increased Deficits
ADF vs. continuous dieting in overweight/obese women: ADF marginally faster, about identically satiatin' but not per se 'superior'
"When Weight Loss is Standardized (to 5%), Overweight / Obese Women are Neither Hungrier Nor More Satiated When Eatin' in an Alternate Day vs. Chronic Energy Deficit. Implications?" ⬅ that's the title of a #SuppVersity Facebook and Instagram post I was just about Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-45813533335336684942020-02-08T02:27:00.002+01:002020-02-08T02:27:44.959+01:00The Latest on Artificial Sweeteners: #Sucralose Good for the Lean, Bad for the Obese? #Acesulfame-K, the Healthier Alternative? As If! Plus: There's All Wrong w/ the Research
Time to stop discriminating against low-calorie (#LCS) or artificial sweeteners as a category, time to start considering the molecule and subject-dependence of these substances and to get the research back on track. Not sure if this article will achieve the latter but if you realize that generalizations are misplaced when it comes to alleged sugar-alternatives are unwarranted that would beAdel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-20495703880562508092018-10-06T12:40:00.000+02:002018-10-06T15:02:11.921+02:00Eccentric Cycling Doubles Fat Loss: 24 Obese Teens Lose -3.4kg ('-10%') Body Fat in 12-Wk W/Out Dieting Efforts
This is how ecc. cycling works + it also happens to show the bike used in the study!
Eccentric cycling? How does it even work? I admit that I was asking myself the very same thing when I hit on Valérie Julian's (2018) latest paper... until I found the video on the right and realized: it's just a modern day torture machine.
A torture machine that doubled the urgently needed fat loss in 24 Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-60037291359153082652017-12-26T01:42:00.000+01:002017-12-26T01:42:55.940+01:00BCAA Free = Body Fat Free | Do BCAAs Make Us Fat or Are They Elevated when We're Fat? Study Suggests the Former
First fat, then carbs and now protein? Are we ever going to stop pointing fingers at individual macronutrients and acknowledge that it's our caloric excess that's making us fat?
As a SuppVersity reader the notion that the BCAA levels of obese mammals are chronically elevated is no news for you. In fact, I've written about the potential link between BCAAs and obesity repeatedly over past decadeAdel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-75885071002632972002017-09-10T06:54:00.000+02:002017-09-10T15:04:41.627+02:00Meta-Analysis: Dieting Reduces Food, Fat, Sugar, Starch & Junk-Food Cravings | In Whom? Why? Is it Diet Dependent?
Believe it or not - At least after some time, a severely energy restricted diet will reduce your cravings for donuts, pizza, pasta, and even chocolate statistically significantly - the questions from the headline do yet remain: Who benefits? What's the mechanism? And do the effects depend on your diet / its macros?
If you browse blogs and read e-books, you will read highly popular claims like Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-45494546453989468582017-09-09T03:42:00.000+02:002017-09-09T03:47:04.388+02:00Which Fats Should Mothers-to-Be Consume if They Don't Want Their Kids to be Obese as Early as With 2-7 Years?
Fat is an important nutrient for the unborn child. Accordingly, the question is not if pregnant women should consume fat, it's rather how much and at which ratios saturated, monounsaturated (MUFA) and polyunsaturated (PUFA) fatty acids should be consumed. A new study does now go even one step further and tries t assess the optimal amount of individual fatty acids like arachidonic acid (ARA), Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-75906482281584597272017-09-06T02:09:00.000+02:002017-09-07T02:28:32.884+02:00Healthier, Fitter & Leaner After 12-Day McDonalds Challenge Thanks to HIIT? Plus: TRX®, Fitness ↗ Fatness ↘ in Women
Short news: Sprinting & TRX
"Have you already burned off that burger you had for lunch today?" If that's a question you're asking yourself regularly, you are at a high risk of misinterpreting a recent study by Christian Duval et al. (2017) as a license to eat how much you want, whatever you want, whenever you want. Unfortunately, a 12-week study in which young, healthy subjects were Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-76939094554578804362017-08-30T04:16:00.000+02:002017-08-30T04:23:51.453+02:00Shed 25% Extra-Fat (1.6kg/12Wk) + Improve Glucose Levels by Adding 2.5h/Wk of Walking to Your/Clients' Fatloss Diet/s
The amount and quality of food you eat determine how much weight you will lose, the quantity and quality of exercise controls how much of your weight loss is going to come from body fat.
One of the biggest mistakes a coach can make is to overwhelm his clients with taxing workouts that ruin their already low "excitement" for getting off the couch altogether. I've previously discussed studies Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-83330279980740854782017-08-11T02:01:00.000+02:002017-08-11T02:12:48.909+02:00Fructose, a New Truth? Meta-Analyses Exonerate Fructose... as Part of Non-Hypercaloric Diets and in Normal Amounts
Editorial provides compelling evidence from meta-analyses, but their results are context-dependent ...
"The story of fructose reflects the cyclic nature of much in nutrition." That's what John Sievenpiper writes in his latest editorial in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition; and he's right. If you review the history of the science on fructose you will see that it went full circle -Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-21903210692863291342017-07-30T01:15:00.000+02:002017-07-30T10:29:57.157+02:00Meal Timing Crucial for Fat Loss? Is WHEN You Eat More Important for Losing Weight Than HOW MUCH You Eat?
In rodents, incorrect meal timing can partly override the benefits of energy restriction.
"You need a caloric deficit to lose weight..." The latest study from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center does not refute this principle. It does, however, add to it an "... and you must not eat at the wrong times!"
Confused? Alright, here's the elevator's pitch for the Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-90355929698949069542017-07-20T02:09:00.000+02:002017-07-20T10:36:55.624+02:00Putting the Artificial Sweetener Analysis into Context by Focusing on the Experimental Data in the Meta-Analysis
If you seriously believe that Classic Coke was healthier than Diet Coke or Coke Zero, you cannot be helped, anyway. If you agree that's bullshit, you may want to read the rest of this article to learn what RCTs say about artificial sweeteners.
If we disregard the "associations" in the notoriously unreliable observational studies and focus solely on the randomized trials that are involved in Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-80191200322125533752017-07-04T03:25:00.001+02:002017-07-04T03:39:23.595+02:0010mg Melatonin Increase Diet-Induced Weight Loss in 30-D Study from 4% to 7% + Have Profound Antioxidant Effects
If you want to take melatonin, take it before bed and thus in sync with your circadian rhythm| learn more
If that's not your first visit at the SuppVersity, the fact that the sleep hormone melatonin is a powerful antioxidant won't be news for you. The fact that it may facilitate weight loss has been discussed in a previous SuppVersity article from September 2015 (read it), too. In Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-37342786412185696632017-05-19T04:07:00.000+02:002017-05-19T06:32:41.336+02:00Lose 11% Body Fat in 8 Weeks W/Out Dieting Efforts!? The 'Egg-Approach' to Low CHO Dieting Quintuples Fat Loss
There are 1bn ways to prepare your eggs and the Internet is a rich source of recipes.
You will probably remember the SuppVersity news about the pro-anabolic effects of eggs - whole eggs - from the other day. Now, "gainz" are nice, but as a recent study from the University of Alabama at Birmingham indicates (Goss 2017), they are also a highly useful diet food.
In their recent Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-73682040869479281182017-05-14T02:33:00.000+02:002017-05-14T02:40:57.944+02:00Low Carb(-ing) Reduces Fat & Fast Food (10-20%) Cravings Plus 60% Less Hunger After Meals in Obese Men/Women
You always crave the foods you must not eat, right? No, ... a recent study finds decreases in sweet and starch cravings in obese individuals on low-carb diets.
If the calorie intake is standardized, low-carb dieting has no proven metabolic weight loss benefit compared to any other dietary weight loss intervention. In the real-world, as well as less tightly controlled studies in obese Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-9602899477703840282016-11-27T04:29:00.000+01:002016-11-27T12:35:43.460+01:00DIT: Four Fat-Burning Facts About the Effects of Calories, Macros + Meal Timing on the Thermogenic Effects of Foods
A dream has come true: You can burn more calories by eating more... unfortunately, the so-called "diet-induced thermogenesis" does not fully compensate the increased energy intake - you cannot eat yourself slim as "unfair" as some people think this was.
You all will have read that: eating a high protein meal first thing in the AM kickstarts your metabolic engine. But do you also know that thisAdel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-19015904334580032032016-11-01T04:55:00.000+01:002016-11-01T05:09:38.559+01:00Choosing & Processing Foods for Satiety: The Science 101 for Regular Consumers and Food Industry Insiders
Don't worry, this is no article about "Frankenfood" like salami bananas, ...
According to the drugs.com definition, a "designer food" is "a dietary supplements or foodstuffs containing nutrients and various combinations of vitamins, minerals, and other substances considered by some to offer clinically significant benefit, often without adequate scientific proof of efficacy." If you don't Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-38070845765055065102016-07-19T03:40:00.000+02:002016-08-05T04:33:52.644+02:00Sucralose: Sweet Taste / Energy Content Mismatch Offsets Our Nutrient Gauge and May Make us Overeat, but...
Beware: Splenda(R) is not sucralose, but 95% dextrose (D-glucose) and + maltodextrin combined with an undisclosed small amount of mostly indigestible sucralose.
"These findings further reinforce the idea that 'sugar-free' varieties of processed food and drink may not be as inert as we anticipated. Artificial sweeteners can actually change how animals perceive the sweetness of their food, Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-78555125371569817372016-05-17T03:26:00.000+02:002016-05-17T03:53:53.869+02:00High Dose Caffeine Restores Insulin Sensitivity and Limits Total as Well as Visceral Fat Gain Due to High Sugar Diets
Yes, the study at hand is on caffeine, but the results are relevant for coffee, too.
A decade ago, the medical community though coffee would dehydrate you, would make you insulin resistant and would increase your risk of heart disease. Recent studies show that coffee does not negatively affect your hydration status (Killer. 2014), that higher coffee consumption is associated with reduced Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-80933853504092833132016-03-25T04:52:00.002+01:002016-08-20T10:38:51.202+02:00Cure! Diabetes With 8 + 24 Week Diet Intervention: 40% Stay Normo-Glycemic After Switching from VLCD to Normal Diet
If gaining body fat triggers T2DM, is is not surprising that losing it, cures it.
From the SuppVersity Facebook News you will remember that studies have shown that type II diabetes can be send into remission with "nothing" but a very low energy diet (Steven. 2015). The question scientists still had to answer, though, was whether the astonishing improvements in glycemia and overall Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-12419302590464475872016-03-10T04:52:00.000+01:002016-03-10T04:58:28.600+01:00High Protein Medium CHO Promotes Lean Mass Gains and Stable Metabolic Rates Compared to Two Different Macros
This could not be a meal from the study too few carbohydrates... even for the medium CHO group.
As a SuppVersity reader you're not going to be surprised to hear about beneficial effects of increased (dairy) protein intakes on weight loss.
What may be surprising, though, is that the statistics based conclusion of a recent study that determined the effects of 16-week high[er]Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-82935525468185046232016-03-08T03:59:00.000+01:002016-03-08T04:49:36.605+01:00Path to Fat-Induced Obesity is Sprinkled With Salt - Sodium Boosts Food & Energy Intake & Reduces Fat's Satiety Effect
Think you cannot eat the whole pizza? Add salt - this should "help" with the hardest all-you-can-eat challenges.
I am not telling you something new if I tell you that excess fat consumption has been linked to the development of obesity. I hope that it's also not news to you that the consistent association between high(er) fat intakes and weight gain in epidemiological studies cannot be Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-37542063269231795622016-01-31T04:07:00.001+01:002016-01-31T06:16:37.300+01:00Sleep Science Update: New Insights into the Effect of a Lack of Quality Sleep on Glucose Control and Diabesity Risk
Blue light is not the only enemy of sleep, but it's the most prevalent one, today.
Personally, I believe that sleep, "a condition of body and mind which typically recurs for several hours every night, in which the nervous system is inactive, the eyes closed, the postural muscles relaxed, and consciousness practically suspended" (that's what Google's "define"-feature will tell you about sleep),Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-15327466358408455092016-01-29T11:57:00.000+01:002016-01-31T13:26:55.365+01:00If You Want to Lose Weight and Stave it Off, You'd Better Not Drink Water Instead of Artificially Sweetened Beverages
Meanwhile, even many of those who are against the use of sweeteners admit that drinking diet coke is less of an obstacle to weight loss than regular coke. That it could, as the study at hand clearly indicates, even promote weight loss compared to water is controversial, though.
It is one of the die-hard rumors in the fitness industry: Artificial sweeteners will stall your weight / fat loss andAdel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-50777718807544671722016-01-03T06:03:00.002+01:002016-01-03T06:06:41.992+01:00Is Lard More Fattening Than Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil!? 17% Extra Weight, 32% Extra Fat Gain + Increased Appetite
Not all fats are created equal and lard and hydrogenated vegetable oils are not on the top-list of "healthy fat choices".
Our perspective on fat has changed significantly over the last decade. While some people still propagate that "fat is bad" and "should be generally avoided", most experts have stopped bashing fat in general and are now focusing on saturated fats. Saturated fats as they Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-42592592553723912142015-12-07T14:00:00.000+01:002015-12-11T17:00:07.634+01:00True or False? 'Low Fat' for the Lean, 'Low Carb' for the Obese and Insulin Resistant - Pilot Study Confirms Often Heard Dieting Advise on a Surface Level , However, ...
Low carb, or fat? Left or right? Which one should you chose and why? Shall you go by your body weight, your insulin sensitivity or your personal food preferences?
"Low Fat for the Lean, Low Carb for the Obese and Insulin Resistant," this quote from the headline sounds like a reasonable advise if you look at the existing evidence on low carbohydrate dieting, which appears to excel Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-32304333215128163422015-11-21T07:20:00.005+01:002015-11-21T07:29:24.860+01:00Fat-Blocker Effect of Tea Catechins Confirmed (?) in Man - Sign. Abdominal Fat Loss (5-8%) in 12 Weeks W/Out Diet
Tea catechins (which can also be found in black and jasmin tea | see Figure 3) can help you keep particularly unhealthy abdominal fat (Després. 2012) at bay.
It is one thing to have in-vitro and rodent data that green tea can inhibit the digestion of dietary fat (reported previously in the SuppVersity Facebook News); it is another thing, however, to have a human study like the one Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-39828126716728717982015-08-23T16:44:00.000+02:002015-08-23T19:17:23.857+02:00Are You Afraid that the Fructose Boogieman Clogs Up Your Liver? Citrulline or Alanine, Glycine, Proline, Histidine and Aspartate Mix Will Protect You + Maybe Lean You Out
If you belong to the people who simply cannot stay away from HFCS foods and beverages, you may be happy to hear that the equivalent of as little as 10g citrulline or NEAAs in your diet may do much more than "just" fully prevent its negative effects on your liver.
You will probably remember from previous articles I wrote that NAFLD, or rather the development of non-alcoholic fatty liver diseaseAdel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-1218445480622967262015-08-07T16:43:00.001+02:002015-08-07T16:47:52.574+02:00Albuterol + Caffeine May be a Promising and Safe (?) Anti-Obesity Stack!? 13% Acute Increase Energy Expenditure in Humans, Long-Term Muscle Gains & Fat Loss in Rodents
You won't be able to peel off the fat in days on the "AC stack", but it's ability to help you burn 13% extra energy and ramp up protein synthesis will help.
No, Ann G. Liu and her colleagues from the Pennington Biomedical Research Center and the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center are not totally out of their mind and after reading today's Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-82386296666266022112015-08-03T17:24:00.002+02:002015-08-03T18:14:51.340+02:00Trying to Shed That Belly? Step Off the Treadmill and Grab Some Weights, Boys & Girls! 19x More Visceral, 1.5x Higher Subcutaneous Fat Loss W/ Resistance Training in Youths
Specifically for teenagers it may be important to work out in both aerobic and anaerobic workouts. So, this would be another reason to favor the combined over the other regimen.
You will probably have overheard the "knowledgeable" trainers at the gym tell their credulous clients, who just told them they "want to lose that belly fat", that the best thing they could do was to "stop spending thatAdel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-73134299753431187142015-08-01T16:52:00.002+02:002015-08-01T17:07:38.624+02:00How Much Fat Will You Gain in the Next 6 Months? Your Response to Overfeeding, Low Protein Intakes & Fasting May Tell You If, Yet not How Much Weight You'll Gain
If you oxidize the CHOs from this meal, instead of storing it as glycogen, that's bad news for ability to maintain your body weight over the next 6-months & beyond
You will know (and maybe hate) them, people who are eating whatever they want, whenever they want while still being not exactly shredded, but at least very lean. What do all these people who have an extremely easy time Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-89321923792939766052015-06-22T17:04:00.000+02:002015-06-22T17:27:49.573+02:00Four Obesity Paradoxes Exposed: Obesity Protects From Chronic Disease > Overweight is CVD Protective > Obesity is Not a Problem if You're Fit > Healthy Obesity is Real
Since scientists still judge obesity by BMI values, athletes contribute to the CVD / mortality "obesity paradox"
Alright, next to "I don't care, I feel good" you will probably have hear or even read statements like "Don't worry if you're obese. The extra fat is protective" or at least claims like "If you're fit, it doesn't matter if you're fat".
In today's SuppVersity Special I want toAdel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-20875895257591799802015-06-20T13:17:00.000+02:002015-06-20T15:35:45.285+02:00Study Confirms: Excessive Green Tea Consumption (1-2L) May Reduce Your Thyroid Function (T3, T4) by Almost 50%
If you drink green tea 24/7 you don't have to wonder if your thyroid is sluggish and your belly growing.
I've alluded to the anti-thyroid effects of green tea extracts in previous articles. That simply drinking green tea (albeit excessively) would trigger the exact same effects, though, is news. News I got from a very recent study from the Zagazig University Faculty of Medicine in Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-85116726866508671572015-06-19T12:54:00.000+02:002015-08-22T20:00:26.109+02:00Metabolic Damage, Energy Intake & the Human "Energy Thermostat" - An Update Based on Recent Studies
You may argue that it is unfair, but there's no way to negate that people who have been sign. overweight once are at a high risk of ending up with a reduced metabolic rate when they've achieved the same weight and body comp. as people who have never been obese.
You will probably have heard of, maybe even experienced the nasty reduction in basal energy expenditure that occurs during and often Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-28321806953508929742015-06-14T14:37:00.000+02:002015-06-14T14:39:28.888+02:00High Fat, Low Carb +20g Whey = Reduced Satiety | Palatable Foods & Obesity | Food Addiction - Believes & Realities
After your workout, whey protein is fine. With a low carb + high fat breakfast, though, it may ruin the satiety inducing effects of the high fat + low CHO meal.
Today I am going to make the short news items actually short in order to be able to cover all the different studies investigating topics that range from the effects of TV watching and other distractions on your Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-55503256417996605692015-06-09T15:21:00.001+02:002015-06-09T15:47:32.740+02:00Reduced Fat Gain, Improved Glucose & Lipid Metabolism on Obesogenic Diet Make D-Xylose a Good Sugar-Replacement
If you are looking for sugar-replace-ments, D-Xylose may be the "new kid on the sugar-block" you may be interested in. It has a lower energy content than sugar, acts as a sugar blocker and has prebiotic effects.
"Xylose (cf. Greek ξύλον, xylon, "wood") is a sugar first isolated from wood, and named for it. Xylose is classified as a monosaccharide of the aldopentose type, which means that it Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-68806884526750055852015-06-08T11:58:00.000+02:002015-06-08T14:18:44.826+02:00Weights or Cardio? What's the Best Visceral Fat Burner + How Often, Long and Intense Do You Have to Train
You don't have to be super fat to have sign. amounts of inter-organ fat.
Visceral or organ fat is the nasty stuff that's "proctecting" your organs from harm... well, as long as it the way you live (bad dietary habits + no exercise) don't increase its volume and weight to abnormal levels.
On the outside, people with high amounts of visceral fat can look anything from significantly obese Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-19765663354245441362015-05-29T18:58:00.000+02:002015-05-29T18:58:57.851+02:00Science-Based Stunts to Make You Lose Weight Rapidly or Slowly : Enteral Nutrition Strips 6cm off Your Waist in One Week, Guar Gum (Fiber) May Help You Lose Weight in Many
Yes, drastic measures will make the weight melt faster, but even if you tube-feed yourself lean, you will not stay this way without lifestyle changes like an increase in fiber intake.
There are a billion different ways to lose weight, but if you aligned all these ways along in a diagram with two axes: One that describes the degree of invasion in your regular dietary habits and the other Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-76029573946632334132015-05-26T12:18:00.000+02:002015-08-04T05:44:52.140+02:00Diabetes, Heart Disease, Cancer - Three Good Reasons not to Join the Masses of Dumb "D(e)ad Body" Worshipers
This is one of the "dad body" models currently displayed on the net who are already beyond "normal-weight" obesity.
If you look at the characteristics of the recently hyped "dad body" it's hard to ignore that - from a medical point of view - many of the alleged "mommies" and "daddies" would be classified as a normal weight obese individuals, i.e. someone who's BMI is in the normal zone, but Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-35000312225932271162015-05-24T13:37:00.000+02:002015-05-24T13:44:57.498+02:00Sugar Intake or Food Quality - What's the True Motor of the Obesity Epidemic? Plus: What's New in Sports Nutrition?
People don't eat too much sugar. They simply make the wrong food choices.
With the publication of the latest issue of the Nutrition Bulletin from the British Nutrition Foundation, I am facing a whole host of potentially news-worthy recent papers. Of actual significant interest are yet only two of them. One that focuses on the involvement of different sugars in the obesity epidemic Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-19847716668917081862015-05-23T12:57:00.000+02:002015-05-23T13:08:04.747+02:00So, "Intermittent Fasting Does Now Make You Fat"? Do the Facebook Posts Lie? Not Necessarily, but Many People Confuse the Important With the Irrelevant Information
It were the nightly binges, not the fasting that made the rodents fat... and it's not news that starving and bingeing is obesogenic, is it?
Recently, Kara L. Kliewer and her colleagues, probably tried to do something good, when they conducted a study to "capture intraday oscillations in lipid stores and adipose tissue gene expression in gorging mice and to identify metabolic consequences of Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-40608708260416255672015-04-19T12:03:00.002+02:002015-09-16T04:27:49.895+02:00Shift Work, an Overlooked Motor of the Diabesity Epidemic? Revisiting the Impact of Continuous and Sporadic Shift and Night Work on Belly Size, Trigs and Glucose Control
Stress at work only adds to the ill effects of shift work and night shifts will have on the health, body composition and life quality of people who work when they're supposed to sleep.
You will probably remember the problems arising from shift work from the Circadian Rhythm Series. In said articles I did yet only scratch the surface of an underestimated problem that may ironically make (Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-33688300881354163632015-04-16T16:00:00.000+02:002015-04-16T16:00:18.145+02:00News Quickie: Regular Eating Patterns May Boost Weight Loss | Protein Increases Satiety, Influence on Food Intake is Limited, Though | Sugar Reduction ≠ Weight Loss | More
So you're eating "healthy"? Sure?
Time to clean my "may be worth an article" folder by putting out another installment of the SuppVersity short news. Today with a colorful potpourri of studies and experiments that were presented at the Summer Meeting of the Nutrition Society and are now subsequently published in the corresponding Proceedings of the Nutrition Society.
Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-80983370746249929432015-03-30T12:05:00.001+02:002015-04-15T06:06:51.923+02:00It Doesn't Have to be an Exhaustive Workout - Increasing Physical Activity Just as Effective as Strength, Endurance or Combined Exercise to Lose Fat and Build Muscle
Taking the stairs instead of the elevator, using the bike instead of the car and other means to increase your regular daily physical activity are just as effective as three workouts per week for you or overweight clients who cut their energy intake to lose body weight.
What's the reasons your clients' and friends' exercise efforts fail? They are too ambitious. The all-or-nothing approach Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-9156227781693590592015-03-24T13:18:00.001+01:002015-03-24T17:24:08.129+01:00Study Links Rise in US Obesity Rates to Adherence to US Dietary Recommendations, But Don't Confuse Correlation With Causation in Your Vendetta Against Carbohydrates
Is the USDA to blame for this?
If you are a regular, here at the SuppVersity, you will be aware that I am not exactly a fan of the USDA's dietary recommendation. With good reason as the results of a recent statistical review in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Nutrition appears to suggest.
In the corresponding paper, the authors present the first comprehensive analysis of that Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-19429264877616904172015-03-22T17:22:00.000+01:002016-03-23T03:26:21.208+01:00It's True: Fructose Makes You Fat - In Fact, It Even Makes You Make Fat! Study Shows, HFCS Beverages Kickstart Endogenous Palmitic Acid Production, Sugary Ones Don't
In the fashion business, "light or not light" (light=diet as in "Diet Coke" US vs Coke Light Germany) is not really a question to ask.
Actually I have given up writing about fructose. It appears as if everyone was so bamboozled by the obvious bullsh*t you can read all over the Internet that it's useless to tell them that you are not going to get obese from eating one, two or even ten apples aAdel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-69216889002926399022015-03-09T12:54:00.000+01:002018-11-03T01:55:36.816+01:00Latest Study on "Breakfast Skipping" Finds: Whether Skipping Breakfast Increases Insulin, Hunger and Blood Lipids Depends on One's Breakfast Habits
Alright, THIS may not be the best way to "break the fast" aka have breakfast.
As a SuppVersity reader, you know that the general assumption that skipping breakfast ruins your metabolism and will make you fat is bullocks (click here if you're a newbie). As a SuppVersity reader, you will yet also know that some studies still appear to suggest skipping breakfast promotes obesity and theAdel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-87923770776950559122015-02-21T12:21:00.000+01:002015-02-21T14:45:42.360+01:00Polydextrose and Resistant Maltodextrin as Dieting Aids W/ GLP-1 Boosting & Appetite Reducing Effects: 7% Reduced Energy Intake per 10g/day of Polydextrose in Clinical Trials
Many of them look like powder sugar, but they are much more. Novel food ingredients like polydextrose or resistant maltodextrin may help us to slow the progression of obesity, but they won't solve the global obesity problems.
Whenever we are talking about resistant starches, we are not actually interested in the starches themselves, but rather in what happens after they are digested by Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-49951234210030161722015-02-14T13:32:00.000+01:002015-08-29T05:00:09.870+02:00Appetite Physiology & Psychology Update: Stress, Cravings & Evening Binges, Aerobic Exercise, Acute & Long(er) Term Energy Consumption, Aspartame, Sweet & Energy Intake
Stress and hunger - The connection holds, particularly in the evening hours, being stressed may turn you into a fridge raider.
I have to say that the scientific journal Appetite published by Elsevier is becoming one of my favorite sources for relevant research on the actual grounds of the obesity epidemic, which are quite obviously of both physiological and psychological nature.
Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-74154349205789376722015-01-19T16:35:00.000+01:002016-03-28T07:08:25.742+02:00Growth Hormone & GHRH Eliminate Body Fat in the Obese: Up to 23% Subcutaneous & 28% Visceral Fat Loss in 12 Weeks - Natural GH Boosters Still Practically Useless
GHRH analogues like tesamorelin trigger the release of growth hormone.
Beyond its effects on bone growth and musculoskeletal anabolism, growth hormone (GH) plays in important role in the regulation of lipid metabolism, body fat distribution, inflammation and vascular health.
Outside of studies in patients with frank GH deficiency (GHD), there is yet relatively little "non-broscientific" N=1 Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-30966975773745294522015-01-04T13:56:00.001+01:002015-05-25T05:28:44.266+02:00High Fructose Consumption, Inflammation Up (Bad), LDL-to-HDL Ratio Down (Good) - Is That Good or Bad for the Heart?
Remember: If anything fructose from beverages (including juices), yet not fructose from whole fruit is a problem. In fact eating whole fruits will decrease your blood lipids and high sensitivity C reactive protein (hs-CRP) inflammation markers.
Fructose is bad for you, right? Right. According to the latest study from the University of Newcastle, the consumption of only one drink containing Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-17602428511945045522014-12-20T14:07:00.001+01:002014-12-20T14:13:27.679+01:00Appetite Short News: Pavlovian Conditioning at Work in the Obese | Polydextrose as a Satiety Promoter | Parents, Just Like Their Kids, Fall for All the Tricks of the Food Industry
Too lean for Pavlovian Conditioning.
In today's "appetizing" installment of the short news, I have picked three of the latest publications from the scientific journal Appetite, of which I thought that they were newsworthy. In that, I cover the Pavlovian Conditioning of overweight individuals, the benefits of polydextrose on appetite control and the way product labels fool parents and children Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-41961375983286878202014-12-09T14:14:00.001+01:002014-12-09T14:16:39.780+01:00The Latest Gut Microbiome Modulators: Beneficial Effects of Cacao, Negative Effects of Acidic Water and Preliminary Evidence of the Negative Impact of Gluten & Whole Grains
Pancakes al cacao & your gut: Bad grains and good cacao?
There is an increasing amount of interesting scientific publications on the role of the gut microbiome in health and disease. Unfortunately, the evidence on what exactly influences the number and types of bacteria in our gut in a beneficial way and even what exactly a "beneficial way" actually is, is yet largely unknown.
In today's Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-68470409013611501772014-11-17T17:17:00.000+01:002014-11-17T17:17:06.789+01:00Obesity Research Update: SSBs vs. Artificially Sweetened Beverages, Food Availability, Prices, Variety & Palatability, or Eating Frequency - Is One or Are All Making Us Fat?
Food variety increases binge eating risk, studies show.
With the publication of the latest issue of "Advances in Nutrition" came a whole host of studies that may provide novel insights into potential causes of and solutions to the obesity epidemic. Among the things the researchers investigated and presented at the 20th International Congress of Nutrition were also studies on the possible Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-34977497096666099682014-11-09T13:41:00.000+01:002014-11-09T16:42:58.549+01:00No Time? No Excuse! Three Minutes (One Minute All Out, Only) Exercise Per Week Suffice to Increase One's Skeletal Muscle Oxidative Capacity and Improve Metabolic Health!
HIIT your weaker self hard, with a total of one minute all out cycling.
It's the most often heard excuse you get, when you ask your sick overweight neighbor if he'd like to accompany you to the gym to do something for his health, first, and his physique, second. "Ah, I don't have the time to work out!"
Obviously, this is a "perceived lack of time" that is not real for 99.9% of the people, Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-43904790365503894432014-10-04T13:44:00.000+02:002015-05-22T03:51:59.470+02:00Taste Matters - Bypassing Taste Receptors Boosts Insulin & CCK Satiety Hormone Response to Food - Why Does That Happen & What Are the Implications, If There Are Any?
Infusions of nutrient solutions via a tube is often the last resort for doctors to save anorexic patients' lives - it's yet nothing anyone should do voluntarily for the satiety plus Spetter et al. observed.
As a SuppVersity Reader you are no stranger to "incretin hormones" and their release in response to the interaction of food with the taste receptors that are distributed all over your body.Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-71193220664726943632014-09-12T15:19:00.000+02:002014-09-12T16:23:50.892+02:00True or False: There is Good A2 and Bad A1 Casein and Eating the too Much A1 Containing Regular Dairy is Going to Make You Fat, Sick and Insulin Resistant!
"A1 beta-casein is a health risk regular dairy consumers are exposed to." Truth or science fiction even Marvel would be ashamed to propagate?
It sounds like yet another of these Internet humbug myths, but you will hardly believe it, there is actually a recent study investigating the differential effects of A1 vs. A2 beta-casein - and it's not a rodent study (Ho. 2014)!
The scientists from Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-49077370959357680842014-09-08T16:53:00.000+02:002014-09-08T17:51:57.717+02:00Pastured Anti-Obesity Advantage: Lower Body Fat, Reduced Liver Fat and Healthier Guts in French Rodent Study of Health Effects of Pasture vs. Regular High Fat Dairy Diet
Happy dairy, happy tummy. That's maybe not the sexiest, but potentially the most important result of this study.
Yes, it's only a rodent study. And no, rodents usually don't drink cow's milk, but the fact that a pastured dairy diet leads to improved metabolic outcomes and to a stronger gut barrier compared with a standard dairy diet in rodents on an obesogenic high fat diet, is still - Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-32147059543813388962014-09-03T16:14:00.001+02:002014-09-03T19:26:18.002+02:00Is Low Blood Sugar Obesogenic? Hypoglycemic Episodes Characteristic of Weight Loss Plateaus & Weight Regain - What to Do? Diet, Sleep, Exercise & Mental Work Matter
Tip: Restore your muscle and liver glycogen after workouts and before long fasts to ensure a smooth transition from glucose to fat utilization.
In view of the diabetes pandemic it sounds stupid, when J-P Chaput and A Tremblay write that low blood sugar levels could contribute to the ever-increasing obesity rates in the US and other Western countries.
Their reasoning, however, is sound: An Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-745463392827057972014-06-06T17:12:00.001+02:002014-06-06T17:12:40.409+02:00Carbohydrate Mouth-Rinses Activate Brain Areas Involved in Visual Perception & Reward - Are There Implication For Athletes & Obese Individuals You Need to Know?
CHO Mouth rinsing? Cyclist do it, but they do a lot of things ;-)
You know what a "mouth-rinse" is, right? That's when you wash some sort of liquid "through" your mouth and spit it out without swallowing. Over the past years, I have probably read a dozen of papers on this topic and although I did not keep exact record, I am pretty sure that six of them presented positive results (meaning the Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-53031505510417072172014-06-04T17:09:00.001+02:002014-06-04T17:09:37.561+02:00Lean vs. Overweight: Post-Breakfast-Skipping Binge is Overweight-Specific. Lean Subjects Reduce Both Energy (-26%) & Sugar Intake (14%), When They Skip Breakfast
It always hits the (already) big ones.
A recent study that was conducted by a group of researchers from the Roehampton University, and the Universities of Northampton and Hull in London took an interesting and totally overdue approach to dispel the myths that revolve around the anti-obesity effects of breakfast. In the said study, a team of researchers recruited 37 participants who were Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-36469112634838032122014-04-20T15:44:00.003+02:002014-04-20T15:44:54.764+02:00Biotin, Folic Acid & B12 & Glucose Management | Part IX of the "There is More To Glucose Control Than Low Carb" - Series: Are Extra "B"s Good for Non-Diabetics as Well?
There is evidence for beneficial effects of B7 and B12 in Alzheimer's. Yet although the this disease is often called "diabetes of the brain" the evidence that B7 and B12 would do anything but ameliorate the damage due to increased blood glucose levels and decreases insulin sensitivity is non-existent.
I guess, you will remember that my analysis of the role of thiamin (B1), riboflavin (B2), Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-48088722333201972112014-04-19T15:52:00.000+02:002014-04-19T15:54:25.254+02:00Study Says: Wheat Belly is All in Australians' Head. And in Fact, the Peer-Reviewed Scientific Evidence for Non-Celiac Gluten-Sensitivity is Scarce, But Probably Not Non-Existent
From a paper in the Journal of Cereal Science: Histological structure of wheat grain showing bioactive components which are related to the fiber fraction of wheat and are present in whole meal but absent in refined flour. (Brouns. 2013).
A recent study from the CSIRO Food Futures National Research Flagship and the University of Adelaide says: The data indicate that many adult Australians are Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-53282678240808223872014-04-18T15:18:00.004+02:002014-04-18T15:18:51.217+02:00Who Wants To Snack Forever? He Must Be an Idiot, 'cause Snacking is Bad for You - Expect It's Protein and Doesn't Increase Your Energy Intake Way Beyond Your Demands
Hands off, if you want to stay lean!
I guess there is a bit of a hyperbole involved in the headline of today's SuppVersity article. In view of the latest results of an experiment that was conducted by scientists from the
San Diego State University, it's yet probably not totally beside the point.
Zachary Clayton and his colleagues did after all find that their subjects showed similar unwantedAdel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-76939603212127744282014-04-11T14:53:00.001+02:002014-04-11T14:53:46.592+02:00Hair Mineral Analysis: Significant Correlations Between Calcium, Magnesium, Potassium & Sodium and Met. Syn., Insulin Resistance, Waist, BP etc. - Implications?
Does her hair hold the secret to her fitness body? Actually that's unlikely, but it appears possible that a hair analysis could reveals what's keeping you back from a similarly amazing physique.
Hair mineral analyses have been discredited by certain snake oil vendors who use them to sell their "oils" in form of an endless list of "essential" supplements you'd have to take if you don't want to Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-13620639636366509342014-03-31T18:15:00.001+02:002014-03-31T18:21:13.245+02:00Human Study Links High Meal Frequency to Higher Weight Gain and Accumulation of Liver Fat: Are Our Sugary + Fatty Snacks the Reason We Are Sick & Obese?
The "average Westerner" is fat. That's for sure, but is it actually possible that it is the often recommended increase in meal frequency which is to blame for that?
A soon-to-be-published published study from the Academic Medical Centre Amsterdam sheds a whole new light on the role chocolate bars, potato ships, coke and even "healthy" *rofl* fruit juices may play in the etiology of the obesityAdel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-21784444661166544492014-03-19T18:29:00.000+01:002014-03-19T18:29:27.792+01:00Pre-Hypertension Ain't Benign: Up to 80% Increased Risk of Cardiovascular Morbidity W/ "High Normal" Blood Pressure and Less! Plus: Foods & Supps to Reduce Your BP
"High normal" is misleading - there is no such thing as a "high normal" BP
"Ah, that's not so bad!" If that's what your doctor said, when he last measured your blood pressure and said "129/84" when he looked at the display of the Sphygmomanometer he must have been living beneath a rock for the past decades.
If that sounds familiar, it may be useful to show him a recent meta-analysis of Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-49084479621772699072014-03-12T18:00:00.001+01:002014-03-13T05:06:01.832+01:00Lack of Cortisol characteristic for young obesity patients. Plus: Self-Esteem Changes During Puberty Would Actually Increase Diurnal Cortisol Production
Cortisol is not your enemy. In fact, cortisol is one of the few hormones you really need to survive.
Cortisol is a problem. However, just as it is the case with insulin, it's not the fact that your body produces it that's problematic. It's the fact that it tends to so in copious amounts and chronically, simply at the wrong time or - believe it or not - not at all / enough. All that, i.e. Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-43378044295415915862014-03-11T18:47:00.000+01:002014-03-11T18:47:48.910+01:00Food Quality Counts: Processed Foods Are Obesogenic + Induce a Nasty Self-Perpetuating Vicious Cycle of Reduced Reward Responses and Increased Effort Avoidance
Due to the vicious cycle of pizza, coke, ice-cream and an ever-increasing lack of motivation, you have to be great to start.
I know..., I know. We are, as so often, dealing with a rodent study here, but the results are simply too representative of what I see in less hairy individuals on a daily basis to ignore the data Aaron Blaisdell and his colleagues from the Department of Psychology Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-69039288816688407722014-03-05T16:48:00.000+01:002014-03-06T03:43:35.745+01:00Foods, Not Macros: Isoenergetic Breakfast With Identical Macronutrient Content More Satieting With Eggs vs. Flakes. Plus: Omega-3 <> Microbiome <> Obesity Interactions
Eggs or Flakes? Not 30% vs. 25% protein! A brief reminder of the fact that the stuff you eat is still food.
I am not quite sure when or why this happened, but I know that more and more people are thinking in terms of "macros" instead of foods. What I do know, though, is that the recent publication of studies from the Pennington Biomedical Research Center at the Louisiana State University Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-11994580046154607902014-03-03T15:51:00.001+01:002014-03-03T15:53:43.470+01:00There is More To Glucose Control Than Carbohydrates (2/?): Non-Carbohydrate Nutrients And Their Effects On Blood Glucose Management ➲ SFA, MUFA PUFA, TFA & Co - Fats!
Some say "fat is a mistake" others say "it was our fattest mistake to believe just that" - who is right? Or are things eventually more complicated than that?
In the last installment of this series, we've covered the relatively well-known, but rarely well-understood beneficial effects of protein on glucose homeostasis in humans (⤷ go back and read it).
This week we will make a fat transition (Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-7328362534180177252014-02-28T16:19:00.001+01:002014-02-28T16:19:36.714+01:00Meat-Love: You May Have Pork, Too. Eating More Lean Chicken, Beef & Pork Builds 3.6kg of Lean Mass + Cuts Abdominal Obesity by 7% in Obese Australians
It's often cited as the source of all nutritional (and environmental) evil and still: The experimental evidence informs us that the epidemiologically instigated politically subsidized meat hating is unreasonable.
I wanted to start this article with the words "I actually don't know why" and follow it up with the statement "pork has gotten such a be rep," but that would be incorrect: After Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-81692873748395806702014-02-18T16:10:00.000+01:002014-02-18T16:10:11.894+01:00Of Liars & Grunters: More Than 500kcal/day That's the Minimal Amount of Energy >37% Overweight Subjects Don't Report. Plus: Grunt Your Way to a Powerful Serve
"Don't tell!" or "Shut up!" - What could the lady on the top possibly be meaning?
It's not always feasible to find exciting new studies everyday - specifically if you are already grunting under an unbearably high workload.... ok, you got me: That was a pun and a pretty bad one. "Grunting" is after all the topic of one out of two of the studies I am going to discuss in today's installment of OnAdel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-79368705949545478852014-02-17T16:45:00.000+01:002014-02-17T16:45:42.148+01:00Protein Power - Study Suggests: 40%+ is Where True Magic Happens. Plus: If Protein is King, Whey is the Emperor
It's not just about more protein it's about significantly more protein and - possibly - also about whey!
Just to make sure: Yes, I know the study I am about to discuss in today's SuppVersity article is a rodent study - a rodent study by researchers from the University College Cork and the University College Dublin (Mc Allan. 2014). And yes, I know that you ain't no fury little mouse or Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-63351399314203002052014-02-11T16:16:00.003+01:002014-02-11T16:18:39.547+01:00Vegan Eco Atkins?! Getting Rid of the Blubber W/ Seitan Sausages & Soy Burgers. You CAN Lose Weight & Get Health(ier) on a Gluten-Laden "Vegan Paleo" Diet
YamYol :D - The perfect diet food *rofl* ➲ "delicious" gluten-laden Seitan Sausages are apparently still healthier than pizza, burgers and fries.
Let me ask you a question: Do you believe that there is a such a thing as a vegan Paleo or Eco Atkins diet? No? Well, me neither, at least until, I read about the latter, i.e. Eco-Atkins, in the title of a long-term (6-months) weight loss study by Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-71720843303404481712014-02-09T16:34:00.000+01:002014-02-10T04:18:03.756+01:00Sleepy Sunday: The Bone and Teeth Preserving Fat Loss Hormone Melatonin Should Not be Injected Twice a Day in Athletes Who Try to Gain Muscle Mass
She's doin' it right! If you want to optimize your natural melatonin production, a blindfold is the way to go.
Have you been out partying, yesterday? Saturday Night Fever ➲ Sunday Morning Hangover? If so, I hope you made sure you'd get enough sleep and have not increased your already exuberant sleep debt even more! Why? Well, I could give you a thousand reasons, but what about the "dynamic andAdel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-11038278739062950792014-02-04T14:34:00.000+01:002014-02-05T04:25:40.868+01:0016 Weeks on High Fat Diet - Weight Loss, Fat Loss, Lowered Inflammation. But is 50% Fat, 30% Carbs Really "High Fat"? Plus: SFA, MUFA & PUFA (n-6) - Doesn't Make a Difference
This is one of the studies, where you have to look at the full-text before you celebrate or curse. Otherwise you run the risk of missing the actual research interest of the scientists and the fact that this nutritional intervention worked, although it was not particularly low carb.
It has been a while since the last SuppVersity article on high fat diets - specifically if we are talking about Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-4789096205109896502014-02-02T16:53:00.000+01:002014-02-02T16:53:46.315+01:00Super Bowl, A Question of Life or Cardiovascular Death! ✰ Are Super BOWLs to Blame For the US Obesity Epidemic? ✰ By BMI Standards the Average NFL Player is "Obese"
Conundrum of the day: Is it really any wonder, that the average American has weight problems if their football stars are obese?
After reading the "Cultural Guide to the Super Bowl for People Who Don't Watch Football" (read it yourself) on Wire.com, I realized that I cannot simply ignore Super Bowl XLVIII and since I have absolutely no idea of how American Football works and how it came about Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-48291750486632239932014-01-18T16:53:00.000+01:002014-01-18T16:54:37.078+01:00True or False: Having Your Pasta 'Al Dente' Reduces The Postprandial Glucose Surge. Plus: Do Spaghetti Really Produce a 50% Lower Glycemic Response Than Macaroni?
Is Pasta OK, if it's al dente? Sounds legit, right? How legit does it sound, if I tell you that pasta is ok, anyway?
I am pretty sure you've heard some self-proclaimed expert state: "You know why the Italians ain't fat, although they eat tons of pasta all day, bro? I can tell, ya! It's 'cause they eat them al dente... that means "for the teeth", bro - you know?" I guess you don't mind if I Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-10345461513026499962014-01-16T18:21:00.002+01:002014-01-16T18:21:41.070+01:00Eating by the Clock Overrides Natural Regulation of Energy Intake: Is the Circadian Rhythm More Important Than Energy Availability?
Is it true? Are we slaves to our internal clock? Is time really the only determinant of whether we are or aren't hungry?
.lightBand { font-family: 'Ubuntu Condensed', sans-serif; font-size:15px; background:#F9F9F9 !important; color: black !important;}As a SuppVersity student you are well aware of the far-reaching effects our internal clock has on our metabolism (if you ain't aware of this, I'dAdel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-35944088293221081062014-01-10T14:54:00.003+01:002015-11-24T05:01:06.241+01:00Sleep Quickie: Sleep Restriction & Amino Acid Levels, Glucose Levels | Food, Sleep & Exercise Interactions. Plus: Melatonin, A Safe Sleep Aid W/ Anti-Alzheimer's Effects
The healthy lifestyle rhythm: "Sleep, eat, train, live, sleep,..." × 365 days/year
If you were expecting any obscenities in today's "Sleep Quickie", you will probably be disappointed to hear that this article is solely about sleep, metabolism and melatonin and how all that relates to "shutting your eyes and disappearing into the land of dreams".
This means that it won't touch on the 19% Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-21017753716577919652014-01-03T15:26:00.000+01:002014-01-04T03:33:46.242+01:00Fructose - An Update: "Fructose Has Adverse Effects Only Insofar as It Contributes to Excess Calories" Plus: The Role of Exercise + Meta-Analyses on BP, Weight Gain & T2D
It's incredible... for some, but probably not unexpected for most of us that fructose becomes problematic in overfeeding scenarios, only.
Some of you will probably have seen the press release from the St. Michel's Hospital that made it onto all the major science outlets on the Internet and up on Alex' Facebook page, where he tagged me and thus got me interested in a study that claims to Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-2241880333023373402013-12-20T15:53:00.002+01:002013-12-20T15:53:32.358+01:00Minimal Carb Reduction, Maximal Results? Study Compares 60% vs. 40% CHO Diets + 6-Week 25% Energy Reduction
Does "moderate low carb" work? And if so how much of the usual triglyceride and glucose lowering benefits of walking the whole nine yard are you going to miss?
I know that 40% carbs is not what you consider "moderate", but for most of our fellow countrymen and women, cutting back on at least one serving of their beloved pasta and bread is already more than you can ask for if you want a Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-78264530373060700382013-12-12T18:02:00.001+01:002013-12-12T18:02:16.458+01:00Yeast Hydrolysate Powered Fat Loss: 7% Reduction in Total Body Fat and 14% Reduction in Abdominal Fat - W/out Diet?
Will the fat-burning magic of 1g/day of yeast hydrolysate dissolve the fat that's still covering the last 2 packs?
It sounds like a marketing scam and I must warn you, one of the authors of a soon-to-be-published paper on the basis of which I came up with this headline is actually with a company that specializes in food additives.
This obviously warrants a heightened degree of suspicion, butAdel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-87404410877342008622013-12-10T16:45:00.000+01:002014-08-04T15:30:32.506+02:00Dairy - The Good, the Bad or The Ugly? Latest Studies On Heart Disease, Diabetes, Cancer, Obesity and Co. Plus: What Dairy Peptides Do For Your Heart, Gut, Brain, etc.
Do you take Liz Hurley's word and set all warnings about the "non-paleo-ness" of dairy in general and milk in particular at naught? Or do you put faith into the "got milk?" campaign? Personally, I'd suggest not to do one or the other. I'd rather suggest you join me and take a look at a selection of recent studies.
If you've been following the SuppVersity Facebook News and / or have read Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-67886172252958755802013-12-07T16:21:00.004+01:002013-12-08T11:45:33.103+01:00Losing Weight Is Easy. Staving It Off Ain't: A Lesson in High vs. Very High Energy Restrictions - What's More Effective?
If you tried to follow all the "good advice" you can find on the Internet and in the myriad of diet books and ebooks, I can guarantee that you are going to get fatter, not leaner. When it comes to dieting, there is after all nothing worse than doings things by halves... but is this also true for cutting your energy intake by half?
Ok, I freely admit that I have tricked you. Despite the fact Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-22785329072344050742013-11-18T17:29:00.001+01:002013-11-21T17:50:01.676+01:00Sugar Sweetened Beverages & Total Energy Intake: Studies Suggest That Normal-, Overweight & Obese Women CAN Compensate for 168 Additional Sugar Calories Per Day
Usually they are touted as the reason for weight gain: Sugar-containing soft drinks like the Scottish brew Irn Bru. In the study at hand, however, they helped 41 obese women lose weight - how come?
Despite the fact that it is not the first of it's kind, I decided that the paper Roy Nelson sent me the a couple of days ago may still be worth being covered in a brief article. Marie Reid and her Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-4635394692050529432013-10-27T15:17:00.000+01:002013-10-27T15:23:59.238+01:00"Breakfast Keeps You Lean" Myth or Mystically True: Hard To Tell With All the Bias, Highly Improper Language Use, Misleading Citations and Unwarranted Causal Implications
We know just one thing about breakfast: Everyone believes it was good for you :-)
Let me first point out that large parts of this article are based on ideas from recently published paper by Brown, Brown and Allison who wrote about the unwarranted and deep rooted believe that skipping breakfast was the first step on the royal road to obesity in a recent issue of the American Journal of ClinicalAdel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-11085042594113338992013-10-21T16:28:00.000+02:002013-10-22T08:36:50.630+02:00Sweet, But Not Innocent!? The Fattening Effects of the Non - Nutritive Sweeteners Erythritol & Aspartame Are On Par With Equally Sweet Sugar Water
I just hope that today's SuppVersity article is not going to cause scenes like this, because when it all said and done it may be less likely, but not impossible that it is (for whatever vexed reason) still aspartame that caused the negative effects observed in the study at hand.
It is one of the recurring motifs here at the SuppVersisty and at the same time one of the most popular issues of Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-83258918039706984702013-10-02T16:29:00.002+02:002013-10-02T16:29:26.334+02:00Obesity Negates Glucose Sensitizing Effects of Resistance Training. Lifting Works Only For Normal Weight Women
The results of the study at hand clearly suggest: There is no single ideal type of exercise; plus: What's optimal may change when your health / physique changes
"You got to exercise!" When the average overweight patient hears these words coming out of the mouth of his doctor, the type of exercise he usually will be thinking about is "classic" steady state cardio training on a treadmill, Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-23198169090771610012013-08-31T18:00:00.002+02:002013-08-31T18:02:26.568+02:00Leucine + B6: 82% More Weight + Twice As Much Body Fat Loss in First 12 of 24 Weeks on -500kcal/day Diet W/ 2.25g Leucine + 30mg Pyridoxine - To Good to Be True?
Check your nutrition labels, I bet you get 2.25g+ leucine and 30mg of B6 from one of your supps already
I am sorry to say that and actually this is usually something that goes into the bottom line, but I do have serious doubts whether the results reported in this study can be replicated in any of you. Yes, it is a human study, but (a) the subjects, 12 men and 12 women, were obese (34.76 ± 2.57Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-72160702808855733522013-08-27T16:25:00.005+02:002013-08-27T19:18:18.150+02:00MCT + Chili Make a Pretty HOT Pair: 50% Increase in Diet Induced Thermogenesis in Well-Controlled Human Trial
If you like chili oil, go for it, otherwise perform the reality check before ruining your taste-buds.
While the word "thermogenic" still carries much weight in the world of the average fitness maniac, SuppVersity readers like yourself should know better than to go crazy over rodent study #1021412 showing "potent thermogenic effects" when an extract from an exotic herb in Dr. Oz garden was Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-15853664078442905712013-08-23T13:45:00.001+02:002013-08-23T18:03:04.758+02:00SuppVersity Science Round-Up: Dairy, Diabetes, Estrogen, IGF-1, Cancer & More + Statins, Fat Gains & Diabesity Risk
Now you tell me there was nothing magic about milk (poster from the CMPB "Got Milk" campaign)
If you actually made it to the end of yesterday's podcast and were not so bored that you fell asleep (specifically during the passage where Carl was praising me to the skies ;-) you will already know that today's summary is above all going to provide you with some figures, suggested reads and, of Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-14841565966377715862013-07-31T17:14:00.000+02:002013-07-31T17:15:39.448+02:00Is There A Simple Marker on Your Standard Labs That Can Tell You Whether You're at High Risk of Heart Disease & Insulin Resistance? If So, How High / Low Should It Be?
Apples are more likely to be insulin resistant than pears... no, we are not talking about the fruits and neither about their effects on insulin resistance, but rather about the areas where you carry most of your body fat. If it's on the buttocks and thighs, your risk of being insulin resistant is much lower than if the lion's share of your passive energy store resides right on your abs.
If Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-32567467640298237472013-07-01T16:38:00.001+02:002013-07-01T16:39:32.512+02:00Sugar Sweetened Beverages, Bottled Water & the Obesity Epidemic: Evidence, Counter-Evidence & Scapegoatism
SSBs worse than an obesity pill?
It is a given fact that neither I nor any sane researcher is going to debate the over-consumption of sugar sweetened beverages are part of the reasons why we are fat. The way they are currently portrayed as the worst invention since trans fats, could however fire back on us. You do just have to look how willingly the oil refiners are bashing the corn refiners, Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-11059004692574594802013-06-13T16:09:00.000+02:002013-06-13T16:09:06.576+02:00The Obesity Paradox, a Fat White Lie: A Longer Life for the Obese Is Nothing But a Sick Exception to the Healthy Rule
"But Dr. the TV guy said, I would live longer than my normal weight cousin."
I guess, you will be familiar with the therm "obesity paradox". A term coined by researchers and picked up by the media to sooth the increasingly overweight majority of the US citizens to believe that even if they cross the border to obesity (which more and more people do), they can still live a healthy and - Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-39270978225037033942013-05-17T17:12:00.001+02:002013-05-18T14:29:14.385+02:00Science Round-Up Seconds: Breast Cancer, GH Induced Insulin Resistance, Stretch + Contraction Increase Molecular Hypertrophy Signals and Probiotics & the Obesity Pandemic
When we are talking about the extinction of endangered species such as the Siberian tiger, we are adopting a perspective that will also help us to understand such things as the pitfalls of probiotic supplementations as a "solution" to the diabesity epidemic
It's Friday the day after the SuppVersity Science Round-Up (download the podcast) and you all know what that means: Right! Time to Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-84165729503825494322013-05-14T16:57:00.000+02:002013-05-14T16:58:10.643+02:00Coffee - The Good, The Bad & The Interesting: 2-4 Cups of Coffee for Adiponectin. Roasted Filtered Coffee & High LDL!? The Optimal Caffeine / Taurine Ratios & the Buzz
The insights may be based on data from a fruit flies, but the the differential effects of high vs. low taurine / caffeine ratios on wake-, respectively sleepfulness concur with my own N=1 experience.
It's been a while since we've had a cup of the former Brew of the King's together. Therefore it occured to me that it would be high time to brew not just but three refreshing cups of hot coffee...Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-8815348032964573092013-04-20T15:45:00.002+02:002017-01-29T04:11:20.871+01:00Size Does Matter! Mucuna Counters Estrogenic Assaults & Doubles Testosterone. High Hair Cortisol, CVD & Diabetes. Catabolic Laziness. Health & Obesity = Incompatible
While it may be debatable, whether and in which contexts size really matters, 20% of the women in a Dutch study state that they length of the best part of their partner was "important" (Franken.. 2002)
While the debate whether or not "size matters" is probably never going to end, researchers from the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Mexico have now found that your male offspring could "fall Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-76158192051638422502013-04-05T17:21:00.003+02:002013-04-05T17:24:17.685+02:00Four Weeks "On" Two Cans of Energy Drink = 6.6% Increase in Body Fat + Other "Adaptations" in Healthy Men & Women
Contrary to regular coffee, the majority of energy drinks ensures that you get your daily (over-)dose of diabesity promoting sugar - so, no need for additional white poison.
If you are following the SuppVersity news closely, I am sure you will remember the note on the carcinogenic, or rather "breast cancer risk increasing" effect a single cup of soda per week can have (read more). As a Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-83271469951826254342013-03-24T15:24:00.000+01:002013-08-13T15:26:39.427+02:00Histidine As a Fat Loss Adjuvant? 6% Fat Loss Without Dietary or Exercise Intervention & More Than Half a Dozen Other Reasons Not To Ignore This Essential Amino Acid
Histidine as a fat loss adjuvant? Laughable? Not for the obese! For lean folks like her? We'll see...
If I had to guesstimate the number of fitness enthusiasts who have ever heard of histidine at all, I would say that 50% probably don't even know what it is, while the majority of the lightened ones will re-iterate what the supplement business has been preaching them "You get more than enough Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-25840390046339051412013-03-10T15:49:00.000+01:002013-03-10T15:49:30.755+01:00High Intensity Exercise & Decreased Post-Exercise Energy Expenditure? Why the Latest Study Results are No Reason To Stop Working Out or Return to the "Fat Burning Zone"
Is HIT obesity incompatible? One thing appears to be sure - the purported post-workout increase in energy expenditure is reversed in the obese.
You may remember the positive results of the 100 squats a day challenge from the SuppVersity news on Friday, right? If you do, you will probably also remember the red box in which I mentioned the ongoing debate that's revolving around the issue, Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-10149498512295732802013-02-27T17:07:00.002+01:002013-02-27T17:07:26.376+01:00Buffered Alternate Day Fasting + Light Aerobics Cut Body Fat, Maintain Lean Mass & Improve LDL Particle Size. Plus: Conventional Alternate Day Fasting Detrimental for Fertility
This is how the "buffered" alternate day fast works: You eat 1/4 of the White Choc Banana Cream Pie on your fasting day and a whole pie on the next one - well, not really, but the ratios would be right ;-)
I guess at least the SuppVersity facebook friends are probably going to remember the study today's article is dealing with: "Alternate day fasting and endurance exercise combine to reduce Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-8923044243834363382013-02-14T17:59:00.004+01:002013-02-14T17:59:44.513+01:00Leucine Supplementation Exemplifies Potential Downsides of Non-Specific Insulin Sensitizers on a Hypercaloric Diet / Bulk
Adelfo's latest progress pics speak for themselves. Maybe that consoles you for the missing update!?
Another Thursday and ... no post from your's truly Adelfo Cerame. In fact, Adelfo shot me an email earlier today, that he won't be able to submit a blogpost this week if he wanted to get some sleep this night (remember we are living in different time zones) And while this was in fact a problem Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-33509082857656818872013-01-20T17:27:00.002+01:002013-01-20T17:27:23.002+01:00Serious Lifting Increases SHBG, Muscle & Total Mass, While Decreasing Total and Trunk Fat in Overweight Young Men. Plus: Why an Increase in SHBG is Nothing to Be Afraid Of
Warning: Used correctly, this dumbbell will increase your BMI, your glucose sensitivity and - at least if you still got some fat to shed - your SHBG! And what's the result? Metabolic health, strength and a significantly improved body composition!
If you read the headline of today's news closely and did not freak out due to bro-scientific indoctrination and the firmly held believe that "SHGB isAdel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-32770565806640517032013-01-17T16:20:00.001+01:002014-07-17T08:27:41.930+02:00Oleic Acid Modulates Gut Bacteria and Induces Weight Loss on HFD Diet. Wondertoothpaste w/ 32 Herbals Promises Cancer Protection. 2% Cholesterol Diet Bad For the Testes.
While Adelfo did not have the time to write a whole update, he still send me some current progress pics, I am allowed to publish. I guess you would agree that the his "carboholism" has not done signficicant damage to his physique, won't you? If you want to know more about his current workouts click here. For some info on his diet check out this post or simply go through all of his recent Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-13179219155636448772013-01-09T17:51:00.001+01:002013-01-09T17:51:12.653+01:00Epigallocatechin Gallate (EGCG), Capsaicins, Piperine & Carnitine: Rather a Health Than a Fat Loss Stack?
That's not what the ultimate weight loss diet looks like. The pill remains a supplement, i.e. something to supplement (and support) your dietary and exercise efforts, nothing more, but - as long as you pick the right one for your type and goal - also nothing less (photo ehow.com)
Let me first remind you of the fact that something that works in your obese neighbor does not necessarily work as Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-56176455471237866142013-01-07T16:46:00.000+01:002013-01-08T18:04:35.389+01:0020 Weeks of Gluttony Without Gaining a Single Gram of Visceral Fat? A Water Extract From Hops Made It Possible
Hops: More than an ingredient of the majority of OTC sleeping pills (photo LuckyStarr)
Hops beer made from the female flowers of Humulus lupulus was the (safer) alternative to untreated water in medieval Europe. Hops are the female flowers (also called seed cones or strobiles) of a hop species and are currently still used as a flavoring and stability agent in beer. Aside from that, the Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-35083704993341032132012-12-26T16:03:00.001+01:002012-12-26T16:03:25.101+01:00Seabuckthorn Leaves Increase PPAR-Alpha & PPAR-Gamma Expression, Keep the Liver Fat Free and Fatty Oxidation Up. Plus: PPARs - High or Low? How Are They Supposed to Be?
This time, the magic is in the leaves, not the fruits or kernels. And it's dose dependent. With an almost linear increase from 500-1,000mg/kg
Honestly, I don't think that it is coincidence that many of the most promising medical plants are shrubs that live on barren soil, like sand dunes and cliffs and are full of thorns as well as innate polyphenolic defense mechanisms. Whatever the "Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-24642305223549347222012-12-25T17:24:00.000+01:002012-12-26T09:11:00.614+01:00Beyond Celiac: Study Sheds New Light on Obesogenic Effects of Gluten - Are PPARs & Bacteria Both Involved?
Cornflakes peanut butter cookies - guaranteed not gluten free ;-)
With Christmas Eve being over, and grandma's cookies, Christmas stollen, and all sorts of other stuff from the bakery in front of you (literally), Christmas Day may actually prove to be a way more "dangerous" than Christmas Eve - not just because of the total amount of calories, but also because of the low satiety effect of Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-63700264182332935342012-12-19T17:09:00.000+01:002015-03-15T04:20:44.956+01:00Fat Loss Principles That Work: 10g+ of EAAs W/ Every Meal. Do Energetic Costs of Protein Synthesis Trigger the Effect?
EAAs beyond whey: It may not necessarily look like this, but this salad (repicecorner) is an EAA power horse with cheddar cheese (25% protein, 0.49 EAA / P ratio), tuna (in oil, 29%, 0.45) and kidney beans (9%, 0.45). You see, it does not always have to be chicken breasts or whey to get beyond the 10g+ EAA threshold, I have repeatedly suggested as one of the fundamental rules of dieting Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-43090622640058493362012-12-05T18:44:00.000+01:002012-12-05T19:41:49.138+01:00Grass-Fed Pork? Not Really. Still the Difference in Fatty Acid Composition & Micronutrient Content Are Profound & Not Accounted for by Food Databases - Let Alone Epidemiology
You often hear that pigs are pretty closely related to us humans, but "are all pigs created equal"? Or what may be a more appropriate question for the SuppVersity: Is all pork really created equal?
If you like databases like nutritiondata.com or the USDA's very own detailed nutrient database in order to evaluate whether your diet is actually delivering all the nutrients you need you are Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-53092051983556928052012-12-04T17:43:00.000+01:002012-12-08T18:59:08.815+01:00Chromium Picolinate Worsens Insulin Sensitivity in Healthy, Non-Diabetic, Non-Obese Individuals by Up to 25%
The more supplements you take the more likely you are to get way more than the 200mcg of chromium of which previous studies have shown that they are useless for healthy people, but at least not detrimental (cf. Lukaski 1996 & 2007; Vincent. 2007). Especially people who like the 'poly-supplementary' approach are yet at risk of getting so much of a this trace mineral that it will hamperAdel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-62730983121388400232012-11-26T18:42:00.003+01:002012-11-26T18:42:41.203+01:00Magic Numbers: 1g Protein per 2g Carbs + Circuit Training = The #1 Formula for Weight & Fat Loss in Obese Women?
If there is one thing about this study that's not debatable it is that eating whole foods, cleaning your diet from all sorts of junk and working out lifting weights and doing aerobics were the cornerstones of the weight loss success of these women, regardless of whether they consumed a low, medium or high amount of protein.
Roughly two years ago, when the SuppVersity opened its doors, it was Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-54597423495786321582012-11-18T16:32:00.001+01:002012-11-19T04:43:16.028+01:00Pigs Would Pick MSG - Glutamate Seals the Gut, Decreases Liver & Muscle Fat & Increases Plasma Amino Acids in Swine
Piglets would buy MSG food ;-)
Mono-sodium glutamate (MSG) and the "Chinese restaurant syndrome", obesity and overeating are often thrown together into a single psedo-scientific crock pot with the result being a brew that's 50% hear-say, 40% fear and 10% science. The study we are going to look at today is unquestionably part of the latter ingredient and its results do stand in line with my Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-34086979638798822512012-11-11T18:41:00.000+01:002012-11-22T16:44:24.404+01:00Get Lean & Stay Lean with Emedin, Galangin & Antibiotics. Plus: Breakfast & Morning Glucose Metabolism. Diet Once, Never Eat to Satiety Again? Adipocyte Size & NAFLD
Instead of making excuses for posting yet another "short news" collection instead of the next installment of the Athlete's Triad series, I will honestly tell you that I simply wasn't in the mood. Moreover, I have the feeling that I have already outlined what is going to work, i.e. train less, eat more and don't get all psyched up about being lean and looking good. Live your life! Against that Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-25921996894630255702012-11-04T17:41:00.002+01:002012-11-22T16:44:06.728+01:00Get Lean & Stay Lean Quickie: Add Cinnamon to Cereals. NPY Detrimental? Melatonin Beneficial! 50,000IU Vitamin D3 Useless. Phtalate DHEP Dangerous! PPAR, AKT & GLUT-4 Agonist From False Black Pepper Surprisingly Potent!
In 1998 the Consumer Union wrote a letter to the FDA complaining about the occurrence of DEHP and other "endocrine disrupting chemicals" in cheese and dairy of which they suspected that they were partially emitted from the plastic wrappings (read more)
Those of you who are following the SuppVersity news on Facebook very closely, will be aware that I announced yesterday, already that there was Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-71014912566603335032012-10-22T18:29:00.001+02:002012-10-22T19:54:21.721+02:00Fat Burners Don't Work in the Obese!? BAT Activity Almost Zero, Even after the Ingestion of ~290mg Ephedrine!
Do thermogenic fat burners only work if you already look like this? I mean, what would be the sure, then and why did the ECA stack work for overweight people, as well?
I don't know if you have ever thought about the problems mostly involuntarily obese individuals are facing in their everyday lives!? Even if you discard the constant bullying and the subliminal messages they receive from their Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-5474817796313440882012-10-16T18:14:00.000+02:002012-10-16T20:56:14.977+02:00Rhein, PPAR-Gamma Antagonist from Rhubarb, Blunts Diet Induced Weight Gain, Increases Thermogenesis, Blocks Fat Storage, Improves Glucose Metabolism & More!
With 2lbs of rhubarb in the self-made syrup base, this Rhubarb Mojito (img +recipe metropochris.com) could be a real "fat loss drink"... well, if you sweetened the syrup with stevia and used it all at once with just a tiny amount of alcohol ;-)
Allegedly, autumn it is not exactly rhubarb season, but it is the season where we usually begin to assemble our share of winter fat and that is, Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-63056991381067430752012-09-19T17:38:00.002+02:002015-07-31T05:31:13.552+02:00Coffee - 3 Cups Per Day Keep Insulin at Bay: You Better Start Today if You Want to Retain Your Insulin Sensitivity, and Stay Cancer & CVD Free Beyond Your Own Centennial!
I am not entirely sure how often I have used the sentence "consistency is key", here at the SuppVersity, but there is no way I don't reiterate it in the context of the never-ending debate over the pros and cons of habitual coffee drinking, once again. While much of the experimental evidence would suggest that coffee, or to be precise, caffeine the major methylxanthine in the brown brew is a badAdel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-74490266537241750242012-08-29T17:02:00.000+02:002015-08-21T05:24:30.368+02:005% Calorie Restriction & Longterm Dieting Make You Fat & Insulin Resistant. Plus: Model Predicts Weight Loss Based On Number of Weight Lost & Diet Pill Use On Previous Diets
Image 1: "Bikini Body Now!", headlines like this and the unfair suggestion that by following diet X or taking supplement Y you would make it onto the cover of a magazine like that are part of the problem why diets fail, people get discouraged and caught in the diet trap.
The issue of yoyo dieting and the existence and non-existence of a body weight or body fat set-point has been an issue in Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-30180057102533852112012-08-10T20:10:00.001+02:002012-08-11T09:42:19.881+02:00Tangeritin, Natural Metformin from the Rind of Mandarin Oranges Hits the OFF-Switch on Diet Induced Obesity
Image 1: Tell me the truth! How much "natural metformin" did you throw away with those mandarine rinds in your life? Update (08/11/2012) Scroll down to the red box on dosing, I added, to check out why you better start saving your mandarine rinds now to be able to do a "tangeritine cycle" in a couple of years ;-)
I guess it is about time for another longer post on the "Supp" part of SuppVersityAdel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-64867217083168237722012-08-07T17:25:00.001+02:002012-08-08T19:51:29.648+02:006x Bananas a Day!? Meta-Analysis: Lower Glucose, Insulin and HbA1c Levels From 'Catalytic' Dose of 36g Fructose
Figure 1: At least according to the USDA data, the average US citizen did never in the last 40 years get even close to the "catalytic" dose of fructose - at least not if we go by his / her daily HFCS consumption.
I usually don't start these articles with a disclaimer, but in this case I want to make sure that this post is not misinterpreted as a corn-refiners advertisement (and contrary to oneAdel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-14651752102554061182012-08-06T18:22:00.000+02:002015-04-11T03:36:42.017+02:00Some HIIT For Life & Less LISS For More! How to Burn 27,300 Kcal Extra W/out Losing a Single Extra Pound of Fat!
Image 1: Yep, you are right, the SuppVersity is the place to be to make sure you don't embarrass yourself during one of those potentially fatefully flirticious one-on-ones in the gym - Remember: Strong and Smart is the Newest Sexy ;-)
In view of the fact that you all seem to be enjoy the high intensity interval news aka "On Short Notice" items at the SuppVersity, I decided to do another Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-76050078376150399102012-07-30T17:36:00.000+02:002012-07-30T17:36:24.052+02:00What's Worse: YoYo-Dieting or Constant Gluttony? What Happens During Weight Cycling? And Why Does Every Diet Make You Fatter? Lots of Questions, a Couple of Answers
Image 1: To eat or to diet, what's worse?
Despite the fact that the magazines are still full of "X pounds in Y
weeks" diets, more and more people begin to realize that "diet hopping"
and even "dieting" in the conventional sense, i.e. following a special, usually very strict and non-sustainable nutritional regimen for a very short amount of time, are futile. But can calling a halt before you Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-70696959688883266182012-07-22T17:13:00.001+02:002012-07-23T16:13:56.444+02:00CLA Destroys Body Fat & Increases Endurance! But at Which Costs? It Almost Triples Liver & Doubles Spleen Weight and Increases Blood Glucose & Cholesterol Levels!
Image 1 (Zhu. 2012): The allegedly leaner mouse on the left has a certain gene defect due to which it developed both lipodystrophy (fat loss) and diabetes early in life. Now guess what the mice on the 5% CLA diet developed after 6 weeks?
It is quite funny how the same people who are terrified by the thought that creatine (suggested read "The Pharmacokinetics of Creatine") could damag their Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-72790127530062602942012-07-01T16:57:00.002+02:002012-07-01T17:00:39.793+02:003x15g/Day E401, Sodium-Alginate, Increase Weight Loss and Reduction in Body Fat % on Mild Caloric Deficit by 30-40%! The GPA (Gut-Brain Axis) Makes it Possible.
Image 1: The small amounts of sodium-alginate, aka E401 many chocolates and commercially produced foods contain is obviously not enough to ward off obesity. Otherwise the obesity rates should have fallen not risen with the increase in crappy foods.
Aside from the ubiquitous stimulant based fatburners there is another class of weight loss supplements emerging as of late. Those of you who have Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-76885153076939866422012-06-25T17:59:00.001+02:002012-06-25T18:00:36.528+02:00Raspberry Ketones? Why, if Two Grande Caffe Americano Could Suffice To Keep Your Belly & Liver Fat Free and Your Heart Healthy, Even on a +40% Hypercaloric Crap Diet?
Image 1: If I had the choice to have a tasty cup of coffee with the beautiful young lady or a couple of overpriced raspberry ketone caps with Dr. Oz, I would not even need scientific studies to make my choice ;-)
I am a huge fan of innovation, but when the name of the innovation begins with “raspberry” and ends on “ketones”, is pimped by TV doctors and sold on the 24h shopping channels, Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-63658308576409064112012-06-22T17:45:00.000+02:002012-06-22T17:45:00.336+02:00Can You Bleed Yourself Healthy and Lean? First Controlled Human Trial on the Benefits of Phlebotomy for Glucose and Lipid Metabolism and CVD Risk Could Hold the Answer
Image 1: You better pump iron than "bleed iron" if you want to do something for your health.
Oftentimes the use of supplements that promise to help with all sorts of ailments related to the metabolic syndrome will induce nothing but financial bleeding. The recently published results of an experiment that was conducted by a group of researchers from Germany, on the other hand, suggests that youAdel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-67705230568031842722012-06-21T21:50:00.002+02:002012-06-21T21:55:32.492+02:00Saturated Fat Kills Gut Bacteria & Modifies Genes in the Distal Small Intestine - Another Reason Why We Get Fat? Plus: Bacteria, Fiber, SCFA, GLP-1 & PYY Revisited
Image 1: Bacteria, there are >100 trillion of them right inside of your digestive track, you can hardly know them all and scientists do neither - the only thing we are beginning to understand, though, is that it may be a good idea to get them to know at least somewhat better ;-)
I guess some of you have already noticed that I was (and probably am now, again) somewhat behind, as far as Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-87563194450462585612012-06-19T17:57:00.001+02:002012-06-19T18:02:29.503+02:00Phospholipid or Triglyceride? What's in Your Fish Oil Caps? Only Phospholipid Based DHA+EPA Reduces Fat Cell Growth & Elevated Insulin Levels Despite Obesogenic Diet
Image 1 (Liliyu. 2007): Look no further, DHA+EPA in phospholipid form can be found right around the corner in the salmon-sashimi at your favorite sushi restaurant, for example.
I guess you will already have heard about the "huge quality differences" of different fish oil products, the manufacturers of the more expensive products usually use to justify the price difference to the average Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-80828681896760260642012-06-13T17:22:00.000+02:002012-06-13T17:23:21.521+02:00Zinc: 15mg Are Plenty - After 120 Days Rodents on Diets Containing 2xRDA of Zinc Develop Metabolic Syndrome
Image 1 (scipop): Physicists and battery specialists know that copper and zinc make a galvanizing couple. If you put too much copper into your "battery" it will however stop working.
A recently published study from the Panjab University in India clearly suggests that doubling or quadrupling your zinc intake, a common practice in the health and fitness community, could do more harm than good. Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-86446731501369173282012-06-10T16:39:00.002+02:002015-06-19T14:36:59.431+02:00Cold Thermogenesis - A Safe Ephedra Alternative? 70kcal Increase in 24h Energy Expenditure is Negligible, 50% Lower Than Ephedrine - Not Worth the Torture, Bro!
Image 1 (odditycentral): Jin Songhao, one of China’s most seasoned icemen and not exactly as lean as you may expect based on what you currently read around the blogosphere, managed to beat the previous world record for the longest ice bath - 120min! Congrats, Jin!
Ephedrine for years the go-to OTC fat burner for physique athletes and average Joe's and Jane's alike is no longer (officially) Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-58391406425671978192012-06-09T17:44:00.001+02:002012-06-09T17:52:02.282+02:00Mono-Sodium Glutamate (MSG), NAFLD, Leptin Resistance, Trans-Fats, HFCS, Gluttony, Leaky Gut & Brain, the Vagus Nerve and the Chinese Restaurant Syndrome - Bon Appetit!
Image 1 (msg-exposed.com): Is obesity the inevitable, unnatural metabolic long-term equivalent of the dreaded "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome"?
Earlier today, I posted a blurb from a recently published epidemiological study on the effects of mono-sodium glutamate, aka MSG, an umami = all taste receptor activator that is commonly found in all sorts of ready made foods that would otherwise taste asAdel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-75935733065335446812012-05-28T16:50:00.000+02:002012-05-28T18:38:27.543+02:00Essential Amino Acids Stimulate Muscle Glucose Uptake by Exponentiating Insulin's Effect on GLUT4 Expression
Image 1: High EAA smoothies are a good, high sugar one a very bad idea
Scientists from the Exercise Physiology and Metabolism Laboratory at the Department of Kinesiology and Health of the University of University of Texas at Austin, the Abbott Laboratories in Columbus, Ohio, and the Taipei Sports University in Taipaie, Taiwan, report in one of their latest papers that the administration of an Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-3384651934603201452012-05-14T17:17:00.002+02:002012-05-15T13:23:05.314+02:00Man or Woman, Trunk or Leg Fat - Adding a Full Body Strength Workout to Your Aerobics Will Burn the Fat Off!
Image 1: "Get up and move!"
Doing cardio is better than doing nothing. In the end, aerobic training does yet rarely produce those changes in body composition most "dieters" have in mind, when they embark on their daily jogging regimen and combine those with the latest and greatest diet fad they read about in magazines or on the Internet. If these people just added a few strength workouts to Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-75433584747630084412012-05-13T17:48:00.001+02:002012-05-13T17:48:54.573+02:00Amorfrutins: Plant-Derived Selective PPAR-Modulator Outperforms Regular Diabetes Drug and Exhibit Significant Weight Loss, Insulin and Leptin Sensitizing Effects
Image 1: Amorpha fruticosa (photo R. Ott) is a deciduous shrub growing to 4.5 m, the fruits of which contain about 500mg of amorfrutins per 1kg raw material.
One major argument I have been bringing forward against the use of diabetes "medications" for quite some time, now, is that most of them are not "treatment" strategies, in the sense that they help people lose body fat to naturally Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-57392525941852225122012-05-12T16:57:00.000+02:002012-05-12T17:07:54.345+02:00Chronic Albuterol Treatment Improves Glucose Uptake in Skeletal Muscle: Could Your Beloved Coffee Do the Same?
Image 1: If there is a connection between asthma and diabetes, it probably isn't related to the use of beta-2 agonists.
What is one of the most dubious ailments among professional athletes? Asthma, right! Asthma is much better than the meat in Lenny Paul's bolognese of which he claimed that it must be responsible for the nandrolone the WADA officials found in his bloodstream 1997. I mean, evenAdel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-19578910028072563782012-05-08T20:59:00.000+02:002012-05-08T21:00:19.947+02:00Ephedrine, Exercise or Diet? Ephedra Modulates Substrate Utilization, but Exercise Melts Body Fat & Builds Muscle
Image 1: Twinlabs' made a fortune on their line of ephedra containing fat burners.
For many people ephedrine, the "E" in the infamous ECA stacks and the alkaloid from the mua huang on which Twinlab and co. made a fortune in the late 1990s, was the first and only truly working fat-burner on the supplement market. "Legendary", "unique", "unparalleled", these are the attributes by which they likeAdel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-63356552929411831442012-05-06T17:34:00.001+02:002012-05-07T04:35:41.601+02:00Anti-Vitamin A Effects of Beta Carotene, Leptin Resistance and Potential Implications for the Diabesity Epidemic
Image 1: Ever thought why your granny had to take her cod-liver oil, whenever there she suffered from an ailment as a child? Probably not due to the rancid omega-3 oils which were partly responsible for its awful taste. That its high vitamin A content may not just have helped her to ward off the colds and infections, but also to stay lean, is yet a potential "side-effect" of dietary retinol forAdel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-49996751102376661192012-05-05T17:19:00.001+02:002016-01-03T05:39:00.959+01:00Going Nuts On Berries: Ellagic Acid in Rasp- + Blueberries, Pecans, Walnut and Co Can Protect You From Belly Fat
Image 1: I hope you are not one of the guys who spits the tiny seeds of the raspberries out. That is not just disgusting, you would also spit away ~90% of their ellagic acid content.
Nuts and fruits, once hailed as healthy superfoods have been under serious scrutiny within the sometimes overtly "health-conscious" blogosphere. Yeah, consumed in excess both will make you fat; but I would ventureAdel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-43583548372694491742012-05-01T17:51:00.000+02:002012-05-04T07:53:24.936+02:00Sweeter Than Your Tongue Allows: No-Calorie Sweeteners Disrupt Early Response to Glucose Ingestion, Reduce GLP-1 Expression and Could Thus Promote Overeating
Image 1: Do you remember your first "splendid" experience with saccharine? Disgustingly sweet, right? If that changed over time, this study is for you!
It is one of those never-ending debates: Do artificial sweeteners raise insulin? If you are a regular, here at the SuppVersity you will be aware that none of them exhibits significant satiety effects (cf. "The Unsatieting Truth about ArtificialAdel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-76213190295258422052012-04-30T17:50:00.001+02:002012-05-01T18:45:45.322+02:00Lactobacillus vs. Oscillibacter! Does (Saturated) Fat Tip The Scale Towards Leaky Gut, Obesity & Visceral Inflammation?
Image 1: Location of the different fat depots of the human body (sorry Evilyn, had to borrow this from your Carbsane blog ;-)
Having tons of subcutaneous fat is certainly unaesthetic, but as science would have it, probably more healthy than a mediocre amount of superfluous visceral fat. But why is that? I mean, what makes the difference? It cannot be the location, can it? Well, a recently Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-16777399193301017202012-04-14T17:34:00.000+02:002012-04-14T17:35:23.328+02:00The Diet Trap Revisited: Yo-Yo Effect, Decreased Basal Metabolic Rate and the Myth of Fat-Free Mass Losses. Plus: Gender Discrimination and the "Diabetic Advantage"
Image 1: Geoffrey Cannon's "Dieting Makes You Fat" was first published in 1983 and has lost nothing of its topicality.
According to relatively recent data (Bendixen. 2002; Kruger. 2004), roughly 30–50% of the women and 10–30% of the men are currently or have recently attempted to lose weight by "dieting". I would assume that at least 90% of these dieters followed did so by just following the "Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-12508716068890287962012-04-11T18:01:00.003+02:002018-04-26T03:39:18.470+02:00GCB Another Fatloss Acronym: Green Coffee Bean Extract Helps Pre-Obese Men and Women Shed 16lbs in 22 weeks
Image 1: Coffee! Would you have recognized it?
HCG, GTE, GSE, DNP and obviously ECA! If you have ever done some research into pharmacological and non-pharmacological weight loss agents, you are probably familiar with this alphabet soup. But would you know right off your head what GCB stands for? No, ...? "G" as in "green", "C" as in "coffee" and "B" as in "bean" - if you make it GCBE, Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-23555312280191954552012-04-07T18:21:00.002+02:002012-04-08T13:07:14.884+02:00The Leptin-Ilex!? Does Yerba Mate (Ilex Paraguariensis) Restore Leptin Sensitivity or Does it "Just" Help You Lose Body Fat by Curbing Your Appetite?
Image 1: Mate tea, which is made of the dried leaves and twigs of Ilex paraguariensis, a shrub or small tree native to subtropical South America, has long been touted as a useful weight loss tool (img Ilosuna, Wikipedia)
Isn't it funny, how complicated losing weight has become? I mean, only 20 years ago the one thing you had to do, to lose weight was eat less and (optionally) exercise more. Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-90972259809989847132012-04-06T17:29:00.000+02:002015-09-21T04:33:24.895+02:00Supercharging Creatine With Baking Soda: Study Shows Increased Peak Power and Endurance - Plus: How Bicarbonate Could Help You Lose Fat & Build Muscle
The pH of your urine is not a reliable measure of your bodies acid base-status
I have written about the "love affair" of creatine and baking soda before. Once, in the "The Pharmacokinetics of Creatine" series (Part I, Part II), where I outlined how you can "brew" your own KreAlkalyn replacement using creatine and NaHCO3, and another time back in 2010, when I discussed the data from a Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-66889245065743259162012-04-03T17:56:00.000+02:002012-04-03T20:24:42.758+02:00What's Your Metabotype? Researchers Identify Distinct Metabolic Responses to High & Low GI Carbohydrate Meals in Healthy, Non-Obese Individuals
Image 1: Firstly, obesity is not the only determinant of metabolic derangement. And secondly, if your diet does not match your Metabotype, it's unlikely you'll ever make it from the left to the right (img. DrPinna.com)
A common motif that arises time and again, when people are discussing the "correct" amount of carbohydrates in the "optimal" diet is that of individuality, respectively the Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-87901319920634557552012-03-30T17:45:00.001+02:002015-05-29T05:15:57.365+02:00High or Low Protein? Milk, Whey, Casein or Soy? In the End It Could Make Less of a Difference Than You Thought!
Image 1: All macronutrient ratios aside, my gut tells me that I cannot go wrong with something as delicious as a piece of steak (img. picturesdepot.com) - I don't know if that is what scientists call the "gut brain axis", though *lol*
At least those of you who make sure, they get their daily dose of SuppVersity news should actually remember the "Bray study" (cf. "A Tale of Macro- and Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-4876565891879338632012-03-26T18:17:00.000+02:002012-03-26T18:30:22.142+02:00Set to Be Obese? Epigenetic Programing in Utero - The Roles of Over- & Undernutrition, High & Low Protein, Fruits, Veggies, Zinc, Magnesium, Chromium, Vitamins & More
Image 1: Your mother's diet is not the sole cause of your love handles and health problems, but it could well have tipped the scale to your fat disadvantage. Don't be resentful, but don't repeat the same mistakes, either!
While it is certainly false to assume that anyone can't help but to get obese, it's similarly hard to deny that some people just have to cut back on the coke and sweets they Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-82164137956092891162012-03-23T17:42:00.000+01:002012-03-23T18:36:22.367+01:00Fructose Epimer D-Psicose Could Be First Sweetener to Actively Promote Weight Loss: Reduced Weight Gain and Direct Inhibitory Effect on Adipocyte Maturation in Rodent + Reduced Postprandial Glucose & Insulin in Human Trial
Image 1: No, just a few grams of d-psicose won't turn these into a "health food", but it could help ameliorate the "damage"
Good news for everyone with a sweet tooth! Right after stevia has finally made it to the European market, the next 1/2 natural sweetener is at the ready. It's called d-psicose and it is a cousin of fructose that is yet only 70% as sweet as sucrose (fructose is +20% Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.com