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.comBlogger1419999tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-12024991296564589642016-09-08T04:00:00.000+02:002016-09-13T14:52:18.253+02:00True Alternate Day Fast Beats Classic Dieting: Max. Fat, Min. Muscle Loss, No 'Metabolic Damage' in 32 Wk Human Study
This is exactly the way your plate will look during true alternate day fasting.
This study is not just about alternate day fasting aka ADF. It is about "true alternate day fasting" - What is that? Well, it's not an official medical term, yet, but if you hadn't read about "alternate day fasting" regimens at the SuppVersity before, you'd probably think that an "alternate day fast" would be a Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-72088071719145805952016-06-15T03:48:00.000+02:002016-06-15T04:50:17.516+02:00Persistent Fat Loss Involves Diet, Exercise and ... Effective Tryptophan Management!? Here's What You Need to Know
Cod is one of the foods w/ the highest tryptophan content and a staple in The Rock's get in shape diet - along w/.
You may remember that I have repeatedly written about the role of tryptophan (TRP) in weight loss: both on www.suppversity.com and (and even more often) in the SuppVersity Facebook News. Against that background you should not be totally surprised to hear that recent studies 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-51314025047801593342015-08-14T15:14:00.001+02:002015-08-14T19:36:24.996+02:00True or False? Losing Your Weight Slowly Will Yield Better (Long-Term) Results Than Rapid Weight Loss - Another Common Weight Loss Myth Debunked by Science?!
With adequ. protein and nutrients "crash"- beats "low and steady" -dieting. In the obese that's almost certain, in athletes more experimental evidence are needed.
You will have heard and read that rapid weight loss will make you lose muscle and set you up for weight regain aka the "Yo-Yo effect". As a SuppVersity reader, you know that things are not as simple as that. While some studies Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-83461759187241787552014-03-10T16:24:00.000+01:002014-03-10T16:39:29.831+01:00More Than -2kg Body Fat in 4 Days? Manic Exercise and a 4-Day x 5,000kcal Energy Deficit on Whey or Sucrose Based Starvation Diet Yield Astonishingly Long-Lasting Fat Loss
Actually, even cherry tomatoes were not allowed in the first 4 days ;-)
Wow! If that's what you thought, when you read the figure in the headline you know what I thought, when I spotted the latest paper from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in the "ahead of print" section of the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports (Calbet. 2014).
I mean, the title of the studyAdel 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-3732363551708661372013-10-05T16:10:00.000+02:002013-10-06T06:49:25.014+02:00Leucine & Phenylalanine Enriched YoYo-Diets Ameliorate Fat Gain, Protect Muscle & Maintain T4→T3 Conversion
Too little leucine & phenylalanine in O.'s diet?
Actually it is quite counter-intuitive that the "YoYo"-diets competitive boydbuilders adhere to (diet vs. bulking phase) are capable of producing such amazing physiques. I mean, when Mr. and Mrs. Average "diet down" and "bulk", the result will usually be neither aesthetic nor healthy, right?
A recent study from the University of Sao Paulo Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-53281354883957281872013-07-15T16:25:00.001+02:002013-07-15T16:25:10.008+02:00Bofu-Tsusho-San: Ephedrine Based Kampo Kitchen Sink Fat Burner Cuts 10kg Body Weight, Boosts Metabolism by +15% & Reduces Insulin of Diet-Resistant Woman by 50%
Is there a Japanese weight loss wonder supplement not even Dr. Oz knows about? And could it be more effective than Oz's raspberry ketones?
Sometimes the most inconspicuous articles turn out to be the most interesting ones. I mean, who would have guessed that a case report titled "Japanese herbal medicine for weight loss in a morbidly obese patient: A case report" would make it into the Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-85526328406531221412013-03-23T16:22:00.001+01:002015-08-22T10:00:00.369+02:00Instant Coffee, Glycemia & Caffeine Powered Post-Workout Glycogen Repletion. Fish Oil, Arachidonic Acid Release & Prostaglandin Modulation. Adipocyte Sizes & Yoyo Dieting
Judged by the way they are looking at each other they don't care about their differential glucose / insulin response too coffee, but if you do, I suggest you scroll down and read the pertaining news item.
7.3% and 21.4%, those are the SuppVersity figures of the week. Figures that stand for the 2011 youth- and 2010 adult obesity rates in Colorado and they represent the nationwide "optimum" - atAdel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-11033912408256263002013-02-16T17:16:00.001+01:002015-06-29T04:39:42.267+02:00Fiber Up Your Foods, Omega-3 For Female Fat Loss, 50+ Ways to Treat Constipation, Serotonergic Peptides in Milk, Weight Cycling & Reduced Metabolic Rates, Exercise & 102% Weight Loss From Fat - Plus: More Short News
Inulin enriched foods are good for your gut, your waistline and your pancreas (anti-diabesity effect) and what's more inulin is also on the list of anti-constipation agents,
100g that's this week's SuppVersity figure of the week and that despite the fact that it is the amount of fat you are going to gain within one year when your metabolic rate is 100kcal below where it should be (Piaggi. 2013Adel 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-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-1352484611079856882012-07-28T17:50:00.001+02:002012-08-16T16:40:38.806+02:00On Short Notice: Insanity vs. TurboFire - What's the Best HIIT Regimen? Plus: USA vs. China, Chews vs. Raisins, Epi-Sesamine vs. Body Fat, Exercise vs. Neurotoxins & More
Figure 1: The latest medal prognosis for Olympia 2012 by researchers at the Department of Economics at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum in Germany (Otten. 2012) - I must admit I am curious how accurate this prognosis will be... what's your take? The US or China? Who's going to take the lead?
The Queen has officially opened the Olympic Games 2012 and the games have their first doping case - those ofAdel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4447249123519658347.post-48582545468719146712012-02-24T17:43:00.000+01:002015-04-15T10:11:05.649+02:00Biggest Winners Lose Their Weight "Slowly" - Losing 6kg of Body Weight in 15 instead of 5 Weeks is 4x More Effective and Ensures that it is Fat You Are Losing, Not Muscle!
Image 1: "How did I let this happen again?", asks Oprah in her own magazine (as a German I am shocked there even is such a thing as an "Oprah Magazine" ;-) - the answer is simple, Oprah! Your "diet" programmed the YoYo effect! It happened not after, but right while you were starving... ah, pardon "dieting"!
From time to time, I am using the Blogspot stats to check where you, my dear readers, Adel Moussahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11282066708304898697noreply@blogger.com