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Milk, a Glucose Uptake Promoter That's More Than the Sum of Its Parts. Plus: HICA & HMB in Yogurt. How Much EAA in Your Protein? Raw Milk Does not Cure Lactose Intolerance

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Milk is one of the few foods that are advertized by celebrities that could actually be good for you (photo from the "Got Milk" campaign) I hope you are not fed up with milk and dairy, yet, because today's SuppVersity short news have a ton of it. What exactly? Well, after taking a closer look at the surprisingly high amount of HICA and the comparatively small amount of HMB in yogurt and reviewing the EAA content of six common protein sources, we are going to delve deeper into the latest evidence that shows that milk is much more than the sum of its parts, i.e. milk protein, lactose and fat and conclude on a note on another widely known Internet myth that says that people with lactose intolerance could drink raw milk without a problem. You can learn more about dairy at the SuppVersity Dairy Has Branched-Chain Fatty Acids! Is There Sth. Like a Dairy Weight Loss Miracle? There is Good A2 and Bad A1 Dairy, True or False? Lactulose For Your Gut & Ov...
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Grass-Fed Pork? Not Really. Still the Difference in Fatty Acid Composition & Micronutrient Content Are Profound & Not Accounted for by Food Databases - Let Alone Epidemiology

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You often hear that pigs are pretty closely related to us humans, but "are all pigs created equal"? Or what may be a more appropriate question for the SuppVersity: Is all pork really created equal? If you like databases like nutritiondata.com or the USDA's very own detailed nutrient database in order to evaluate whether your diet is actually delivering all the nutrients you need you are probably missing half of the picture. At least as far as the more sophisticated details go, a recent paper from the Instituto de Ingeniería de Alimentos para el Desarrollo at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia clearly indicates that you would at least have to consider what the animals, in this case pork, were fed and from which muscle of the animal the piece of meat you are eating has been cut, in order to get an approximate idea of how much of unquestionably health relevant micronutrients, such as coQ10 , carnosine , anserine , taurine , creatine glutamine or haem you get - a...
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