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Hot News About Cold Tea: Cold Maté Tea Increases Energy Expenditure 2x More than Hot Maté | No Strings Attached?

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I don't want to spoil your beloved maté tea for you, but if you expect it to shed slabs of body fat off your frame, this belief may well spoil your fat loss efforts for you ;-) I've previously addressed the potential benefits of cold-brewing your coffee  and the effect of water temperature on the extraction of bioactive substances from coffee in my "Coffee 101" ( Moussa 2017 ). For (caffeinated) tea, I haven't done this yet... what I haven't done for either of the two is to address the effect of the beverages' temperature at consumption. In their latest RCT, Maufrais et al. ( 2018 ) did just that... more specifically, they "compare[d] the cardiovascular, metabolic and cutaneous responses to the ingestion of [Yerba Mate] at cold or hot temperature in healthy young subjects." You can learn more about green tea and tea, in general , at the SuppVersity Green Tea Boosts Energy Exp. Using Green Tea as Fatblocker Tea Lowers Testoster...
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Accuracy of Calculated Metabolic Rate in Athletes: Best and Worst Equations are +3% to -17% Off Measured RMR | Plus: Spreadsheet to Calculate Your RMR With Each Equation

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Wouldn't it be cool if you could simply plug your computer into a USB-slot at the back of your head to read out your energy status...? Ah, no, it wouldn't! It's already scary enough how much Fitbit, Garmin, and co know about us. This is by no means the only problem with metabolic research, these days, but it's one that's really getting on my (and probably also your) nerves. It's all about the sick and obese. It is thus no wonder that you will easily find papers that assess how the Nelson, Mifflin, Harris-Benedict and other equations that are commonly used are off wrt the real energy requirements of the average obese type II diabetic. What you'll be hard-pressed to find, though, is data on their accuracy in athletes. I have addressed this issue before, but with the publication of a recent paper in the  Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research  there's now more data available than from all the previous studies I've seen. The effect of lean...
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Metabolic Damage in Biggest Losers: Will Diet & Intense Exercise Make You Fat, While Surgery Will Make You Lean? Plus: How to Avoid / Correct Diet-Induced REE Reductions

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If you start to work out when you are already obese, it'll still help you lose weight, but if you'd been active the years before chances are you'd not have such weighty problems and wouldn't have to fear metabolic slow down. Let me answer the question in the headline of today's SuppVersity Article right away, 'cause the answer short and easy: "No!" If you compare the body composition of the Biggest Losers who were included in a recent study by scientists from the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda and the Pennington State Biomedical Research Center, the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and the University of California-Los Angeles to that of their bariatric surgery patients, the "Biggest Losers" (BLC) had lower body fat and higher lean mass percentages than their peers who took the easy way out (Knuth. 2014). What is non-debatable, though, is the fact that the thirteen "Big Losers" also exhibited significantly m...
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Less Frequent Large(r) Meals & Caffeine - Proven Ways to Increase Your Energy Expenditure & Conserve Your Resting Metabolic Rate While Dieting | Part I of A Multipart Series

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Whether you want to lose or gain weight, never forget to "Eat to live!" To lose weight, you must create a negative energy balance.It is however unrealistic to expect your body not to do everything it can to conserve energy, when you've been eating 50% below maintenance for weeks (e.g. you need 2,000kcal, but eat only 1,000). Not to reduce your energy intake by more than 40% (for max. 2 weeks) and going with 20-25% if you plan to diet for 4-6 weeks would thus qualify as rule #1; a rule of which I can only say that I highly recommend you stick to it, because if you don't even the five tips below are not going to save your metabolism from crashing (learn more about the nine rules that can help avoiding metabolic shut-down). There is evidence of effects of coffee & CGA on your gut microbiome (Jaquet. 2009) Fiber for Female Fat Loss Sweeteners & Your Gut Foods, Not Ma- cros for the Gut Lactulose For Gut & Health Probiotics Don't Cu...
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Evidence From the Metabolic Ward: 1.6-2.4g/kg Protein Turn Short Term Weight Loss Intervention into a Fat Loss Diet

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2x-3x higher than RDA protein intakes work equally well for men and women, to get and stay lean and lose fat and build / maintain muscle. There are very few principles I believe are set in stone and valid regardless of your age (maybe not for toddlers), your training goals and your nutritional "orientation" (paleo, low carber, low fat eater, or whatever), and among these the "Have at least 30g of quality protein (eggs, meats, dairy, fish, etc.) with every major meal " (this assumes you eat 3meals+ per day) probably is king. It is the recipe to success and I actually don't feel as if it was necessary to convince you of the advantages this high(er) protein intake will have on your physique and - although the medical establishment is still reluctant to admit that - your health, as well. Still, the most recent study from the Military Nutrition Division , U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine in Natick, Massachusetts, USA; have much more to of...
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