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This is one of the "dad body" models currently displayed on the net who are already beyond "normal-weight" obesity. If you look at the characteristics of the recently hyped "dad body" it's hard to ignore that - from a medical point of view - many of the alleged "mommies" and "daddies" would be classified as a normal weight obese individuals, i.e. someone who's BMI is in the normal zone, but whose body fat percentage exceeds  ≥25. 4 % (for women this would be ≥31.4 %). And while it may be debatable whether a beer-bellied beanpole is sexy or not, there's no question that having a "dad body" is associated with a significantly increased risk of several potentially fatal health problems. Learn more about the effects of your diet on your health at the SuppVersity Only Whey, Not Soy Works for Wheytloss Taste Matters - Role of the Taste Receptors Dairy Protein Satiety - Casein vs. Whey How Much Carb...

In contrast to the message "trans fats = bad". The information that cookies and bakery, not cooking oil, margarine, chips & co are the main trans fat offenders in our diet has reached only a very small group of people. There are only few 'nutritional wisdoms' out there that are actually 'wise'. One of them is the notion that "trans-fats are bad for you". By now that's something every fifthgrader knows. What most people don't know, though, is how bad "bad" actually is and whether the small amounts of trans fatty acids, the industry is cleverly hiding in their products by downsizing them in a way that "one serving"contains less than 0.5g of transfats - that's the magic loophole in the FDA regulations according to which transfats don't have to appear on the label, as long as the total amount per serving is less than 0.5g. The question I would like you to remember, when you read more about the most recent st...

Image 1: The mouse on the left probably had too little arginine in its high fat diet (just kiddin' ;-) This is a follow up not on yesterday's third , but on the second installment of the Amino Acids for Super Humans series on Carl Lenore's Super Human Radio. In that episode I had already alluded to the metabolic benefits of arginine and citrulline supplementation, which reach far beyond their purported use as ergogenic aids and nitric oxide booster. A very recent study ( El Kirsh. 2011 ) published a week ago ahead of print in the online issue of Cell Biochemistry & Function confirmed and expanded on the results of previous studies which showed beneficial effects on parameters of organ (specifically heart and liver) in rodent models. 6 groups of rats fed either a normal diet or the dubious "high fat" diet, scientists use to induce obesity along with the characteristic symptoms of the metabolic syndrom...

If you are no regular visitor of the SuppVersity, I guess, you are religiously taking your (high dose?) fish oil , day in day out. So what? It probably l owers your total and low density cholestero l (LDL-C; it may reduce your triglycerides and thus improve your insulin sensitivity . Yet, in doing all those "great" things, the unmetabolized and peroxidized remainder of everyone's favorite wonder-supplement begin to clog your arteries and liver - at least, if you believe in the validity of that kind of rodent studies which suggested the usefulness of fish oil, in the first place. Image 1: Micrograph of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, caused by the same kind of lipid accumulations Shirazi et al. observed in the rats receiving fish oil treatment (image by Nephron ) Shirazi et al. ( Shirazi. 2011 ) recently published a paper reporting exactly that: "Fish oil increases atherosclerosis and hepatic steatosis, although decreases serum cholesterol in Wistar rat...

A recent study by scientists from the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota ( Irving. 2011 ) found that the most reliable indicators of LDL & HDL particle size in 84 healthy non-diabetic men and women were a huge amount of trunk fat and high triglyceride levels. [...] the accumulation of atherogenic lipoprotein particles (e.g. small, dense, low-density lipoprotein particles and small, high-density lipoprotein particles) was associated with low levels of insulin sensitivity, cardiorespiratory fitness, and higher levels of adiposity. However, multivariate forward-stepwise regression revealed that triglycerides, followed by truncal fat mass, were the strongest predictors of the lipoprotein particle size and concentration data. These results are of particular interest to those who cannot afford having a comprehensive lipid panel done. Since the standard tests often do not provide any information about the size of the cholesterol particles, looking and triglycerides and truncal fat may be a...