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Baby Weight and Depression? It Doesn't Have to be the Treadmill: 11% and 8% Less Body Fat with Resistance and Flexibility Training Within 4 Months Postpartum

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Image 1 (ezineMarks.com): Heidi Klum certainly deserves respect to go from left to right within 5 weeks, but not every woman has a fitness trainers and chefs to make that possible. I know, this may not be a "regular" SuppVersity post; and no, I am not becoming a father, but I still found that the results of a recently conducted trial by J. D. LeCheminant et al. from the Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, deserved some attention. After all you will usually be confronted with the notion that those celebrity moms run around for (or four?) hours every day to starve themselves back into their size zero jeans within possibly record-braking time (see "The German Fräuleinwunder", Heid Klum in image 1 ). In fact, breastfeeding alone is associated with a ~618 kcal increase in energy expenditure per day alone would be way above my usual recommendation not to go below a -20% reduction in calorie intake, when you are dieting in order to preserve precious muscle tissu...

The Soy Formula: Pregnant or Lactating Mother + Soy = Metabolically Deranged Male Offspring

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Image 1: Newsweek title from the year 2000 - "Fat for Life?"; did his mother love her soy protein more than her son's health? Those of you who listened to my dissertations on yesterday's fourth installment of the Amino Acid Series on Carl Lenore's Super Human Radio will probably remember the lack of carnitine in the not-yet-enriched soy based baby-formula of the late 1970s. Now, a recently published rodent study suggests that the negative effects of soy may well begin before the offspring is even born : Exposure of pregnant and lactating rats to a soy (vs. a casein) based diet "increased the presence of the characteristics of the metabolic syndrome in the offspring" ( Jahan-mihan. 2011 ). In the course of their study, the results which was published in the latest issue of the British Journal of Nutrition , the scientists randomly assigned pregnant rats (at day 3 of gestation) to one out of two calorica...
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