SuppVersity - Nutrition and Exercise Science for Everyone

Do they train at the right intensity and what is the right intensity? What's right , anyway? Lot's of questions, tons of words, a couple of answers and some interesting revelations in today's 2nd article of the SuppVersity Exercise Science Week . This is day 2 of the  SuppVersity Exercise Science Week -- another day, another news. After you've learned about the various mechanisms by which exercise will induce structural changes to your beer belly, lover handles and other problem and non-problem areas, in yesterday's first article of the SuppVersity Exercise Science Week , today's post does actually pick up on the notion of the superiority of high intensity exercise and takes a look at how low vs. high(er) intensity endurance exercise effects the antioxidant defense system of the body. This will lead us to an issue that was once considered to be a downside of high intensity workouts: their notoriousness to deplete muscle glycogen, of which we now know tha...

Did you ever want to know how your favorite fruit would perform in the most prestigious disciplines of the "Fruit Olympics", i.e. antioxidant capacity and phenolic content ? Yes? Well, I guess a group of researchers from China has just done you a favor... Xu et al. ( Xu. 2011 ) analysed the antioxidant capacity by Ferric-reducing antioxidant power ( FRAP ) assays and the free radical scavenging capacities by Trolox equivalent antioxidant capacity assays ( TEAC ) and found: Seven fruits had the strongest antioxidant activities among 62 tested fruits [...] they were Chinese date, pomegranate, guava, sweetsop, persimmon, Chinese wampee and plum (sanhua) . In addition, olive showed the strongest free radical scavenging ability , and cherry and pineapple also had high antioxidant capacities. Because of their high antioxidant activities, it could be speculated that these fruits will be beneficial for the diseases caused by oxidative stress. An interesting observation is that t...