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No Magic Numbers: The Omega-3:Omega-6 (N3/N6) Ratio - Higher is Better, But as Part of the Standard American Diet Even a 1:1 Ratio Won't Protect You Against Diabesity

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Eating "like an American" makes you fat and sick. No matter what the omega-3 to omega-6 ratio of your diet may be. It is a pity. Yeah, if the latest study from the University of South Carolina was a human study, it would finally provide a definitive answer to the question how much omega-3 we actually need. Well, I should clarify: It would provide an answer to the question how much omega-3 we need with a given baseline omega-6 intake. In view of the fact that the study duration was 20 weeks, it would yet take more than 60 (human) years to find out, whether the ratio of n-3/n-6 in the diet is in fact as irrelevant as the reslts Reilly T. Enos et al. present in their latest paper would suggest. You can learn more about omega-3 & co at the SuppVersity Fish Oil Makes You Rancid? Are All Fats Bad For You? Fish Oil & GLA vs. Acne MUFA & Fish Oil Don't Match Fish Oil Doesn't Help Lose Weight Rancid Fish Bad 4 Health Over those 20 w...
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Protein Power - Study Suggests: 40%+ is Where True Magic Happens. Plus: If Protein is King, Whey is the Emperor

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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 rat... ... but I do also know that the beneficial metabolic effects of high protein intakes appear to be even more, not less pronounced in human beings and will thus not mention 500x that the assumption that we'd see similar benefits in men and women would obviously require experimental confirmation... alright? Now that we are clear, dear non-dams and non-bucks... ... you are probably already drooling at the sought of reading yet another "high protein is good for you" study. Don't worry I am not going keep you on the tenderhooks longer than absolutely neces...
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Fructose-Nation: No Change in Fructose Availability in the US Since the Early 1970s. So Why Are We Fat, Then?

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From fat to Fructose - just another scapegoat for a fundamental problem? Over the past 5 years or so, the idea that that fructose is to blame for the ever-increasing rates of diabesity has become so popular that hypotheses such as "the fructose consumption has exploded over the past decade" are usually accepted as scientifically verified facts. A recent paper from the Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences at the University of Nebraska did now remind me that not all things that appear logical and consistent with our believes are necessarily true. Do we even consume that much fructose? As Trevor J Carden and Timothy P Carr point out, "the consumption pattern of fructose and other key nutrients" in the past 4 decades, "remains a topic of debate" (Carden. 2013). To determine whether fructose consumption in the US has increased sufficiently to be a casual factor in the rise in obesity prevalence Carden and Carr analyzed the USDA Loss-Adjuste...
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Science Round-Up Seconds: The Macro-Mineral Alphabet & the Potential Health Hazards of Diet-Induced Latent Acidosis

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You lose 600x more sodium than magnesium during a workout. The RDA is yet only ~3-4x higher (Montane. 2007). If you already listened to the podcast of yesterday's installment of the SuppVersity Science Round Up (if you have not already done so, you can dowload the podcast, here ), you may have noticed that I confused the minimal potassium (K) to sodium ratio (Na), which is probably ~1:1, and the "original" K:Na ratio in the "paleo diet". According to Sebastian et al. (2002) the latter is ~8-9:1 in other words: 8-9 mols of potassium per mol of sodium. That's miles apart from the 1:2-3 ratio the average Westerner (the exact ratio varies depending on which study you refer to) uses as a springboard to hypertension ;-) The (un-)definite mineral synergism/antagonism chart Another thing you may have noticed with yesterday's show is the fact that the show was pretty "topic centered". My personal feeling is that it has a much better flow ...
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Inulin & Beta Glucan Reduce Body Fat Gain By -50% & -33%! Both Have Similar Effects on the Gut Microbiome, But Only Inulin Appears to Be More Than An Appetite Suppressant

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What do these Jerusalem artichokes , agave , bananas , burdock , camas , chicory , coneflower , costus , dandelion , elecampane , garlic , jicama , Leopard's-bane , mugwort , onion , wild yams , yacon and a whole host of other foods have in common? Right! They contain inulin. Whether you will be able to get a whopping amount of 10% inulin in your diet w/out the use of supplements or "enriched" foods, is yet as questionable as how beneficial this actually is for friends of physical culture. The gut microbiome is not just one of the hottest topics in the (health-)blogosphere, it is also a subject of ongoing research. Research, however, that is, if we are honest, still very much in its infancy. As impressive as the results from the latest studies into the metabolic downstream effects of the administration of fermentable fiber to rodents may be and as obvious as their relation to certain changes in the gut microbiome of the animals may appear - in the end, our unders...
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Red Meat and Even Pork is Good for You!? Reduced Weight Gain, Improved Insulin Sensitivity and No Adverse Side Effects from "Red Meat Supplementation" Even in Rodents!

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Image 1: Must be the red meat between those healthy grain based burger buns that makes this rodent fat, right? What? Yeah... of course epidemiologists count this as a "red meat meal" - it has "red meat" in it... wait, ah yeah: More likely pink slime, with some totally benign ammonia in it, you are right ;-) Those of you who have been around here at the SuppVersity for some time, may have remembered the " Additional(!) 200g of Pork a Day Build Lean Mass, Improve Blood Lipids & Glucose Levels " from September 2011, when a couple of weeks ago yet another "anti-meat study" hit mainstream media news. You will probably have read enough of the certainly accurate, but in a way pointless criticism of the study, elsewhere in the bloggosphere, so that I decided not to repeat the argumentation, which basically discards the value of all epidemiological data (as long as it is not interpreted in accordance with the respective blogger ;-)... now, not a...
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SAD - Human Study Shows: Three Days on "High Fat" Standard American Diet Produce Heart Healthier LDL Particle Profile Than NCEP-Approved Low Fat Diet

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Image 1: SAD or just mad? It does in fact look like you better stick to Royal TS , French fries & co instead of following a low fat diet according to the guidelines of the National Cholesterol Education Program if you care about your heart health. In view of the fact that millions of lives depend on it (literally, not just figuratively!) it is actually quite surprising, some would probably say "scandalous" that the experimental evidence (and I am talking about controlled experiments on real , healthy human beings, not about epidemiological and thusly statistical) for the purported beneficial effects of a non-calorically restricted "healthy low fat diet" in the absence of additional exercise interventions is... scarce, to say the least. I was thusly positively surprised, when I hit on a study from a group of researchers from the Institute of Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods at the Laval University and the Lipid Research Center at the CHUL Research Cent...
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