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Protein-Sugar Interactions: Will a Coke/DietCoke Turn Your Lean Steak into a Cheeseburger - Metabolically Speaking?

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Does a Coke (diet or regular) really ruin the metabolic benefits of high protein meals? Decrease fat oxidation? Increase fat storage? Boost your appetite? In her recently published blog about the study, Dr. Shanon Casperson writes acknowledges the "beneficial effects of protein-rich diets", its beneficial effect on satiety, its ability to decrease both prospective and real-world food intake, and its beneficial effects on human metabolism. With all the things we know about protein, it is yet quite interesting that we don't know "what happens when we drink a sugar-sweetened beverage with our steak dinner?" (see BMC blog ). The former is the research-question of a recently published study in the OpenAccess Journal  BMC Nutrition  that was conducted by - you guessed it - Casperson et al. (2017). Learn more about fructose at the SuppVersity Bad Fructose not so Bad, After All! Learn its Benefits. Fructose From Fruit is NOT the Problem US Fructose...
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High Fructose Consumption, Inflammation Up (Bad), LDL-to-HDL Ratio Down (Good) - Is That Good or Bad for the Heart?

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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 containing 50 g of either fructose or glucose or sucrose dissolved in water will have detrimental effects on the #1 indicator of whole body inflammation, which is high sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP). Much to the researchers surprise, though, the same amount of fructose had significant beneficial effects on the plasma lipid levels of the healthy male and female adults (n = 14) between the ages of 18-60 years who were recruited by advertisement and underwent study procedures at the Nutraceuticals Research Group Clinic rooms at the University of Newcastle in Australia. Learn more a...
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Artificial Sweeteners & Liver Cancer - Is There a Link? 6% Increased Risk of Hepatocellular Carcinoma per 330ml of Artificially Sweetened Soft Drink in Human Study

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Are we "pouring liver cancer", when we consume soft drinks regularly? Recent data from the EPIC study appears to suggest just that - specifically if the soft drinks are artificially sweetened. I certainly don't belong to the anti-sweetener faction on the Internet, but the results scientists from the International Agency for Research on Cancer , the University Paris Sud , the Institut Gustave Roussy and the Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP) in France, the Winship Cancer Institute in Atlanta, the Hellenic Health Foundation and the University of Athens Medical School in Greece, the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Aarhus University and the Danish Cancer Society Research Center in Denmark and the Cancer Council Victoria and the University of Melbourne in Australia in the latest issue of the European Journal of Nutrition are serious enough to not to discard them as another unwarranted horror-story of the anti-sweetener l...
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Obesity Research Update: SSBs vs. Artificially Sweetened Beverages, Food Availability, Prices, Variety & Palatability, or Eating Frequency - Is One or Are All Making Us Fat?

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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 involvement of artificial sweetened beverages, the availability and convenience of food, the effects of food prices on obesity, the effectiveness of changing the eating frequency, the importance of portion sizes in weight control, the impact of eating a highly variable and palatable diet. You can learn more about meal frequency at the SuppVersity Grazin' Bad For the Obese! Breakfast Keeps You Lean?! Frequent Protein Consumption Myth: Few Meals More Bodyfat 8 Meals = Stable, But High Insulin Int. Fasting & Exercise Sugar-Sweetened and Artificially-Sweete...
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What's Worse for Your Body Composition & Liver Health? 10g of Sugar from Coke or the Same 10g From Cookies? Plus: Liquid Sucrose is Harder on the Liver Than Fructose

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Hard do believe, but the 10g from coke may actually do more harm than the same amount from cookies. If you want to scare me away from a discussion about the "fat problems" the US and large parts of Europe are struggling with, you just have to repeat Taubs'ian statements such as "if we had not eaten carbohydrates all the mess wouldn't have happened." It's certainly true that the exorbitant and mislead carbohydrate intake and the psyochological consequences ("Fat is bad, isn't it?") of the "low fat" decades from the 1970-1990s is part of the problem, but when we look closer, it's not as simple as to say "we don't eat enough fat". As Yvonne Ritze and her colleagues from the University of Hohenheim , the Technische Universität München , and the Interdisciplinary Obesity Center in Rorschach (Switzerland) write in their latest paper in PLoS One , it's rather the unhealthy conglomerate of "changes in ...
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