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Red Light for Red/Processed Meat Actually a Red Light for Obesity? Body Fat Mediates Link of Meat Intake & Health

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Mediation analysis suggests: It's not the amount of Cantonese Roast Pork Belly ( recipe ) you eat that increases the level of inflammation in your body, but the belly you get if you eat too much of it or non-red/processed meat foods. You will be aware of the fact that even the best epidemiological study cannot account for all correlations; correlations that mess with the results of the studies; correlations like the one between generally healthier lifestyles and the consumption of a vegetarian diet, which have been thwarting the results of epidemiological studies on the effects of meat intake on our health for decades. To get to the bottom of one of these spurious correlations, scientists from the University of Hawaii Cancer Center (Chai 2017), examined the associations of dietary red and processed meat intake with serum levels of CRP, TNF-a, IL-6, leptin, and adiponectin among control participants in 2 nested case–control studies of cancer in the Multiethnic Cohort. Looki...
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Post-Workout Protein Supplementation: Speed & Source Don't Matter for Real-World Size & Strength Gains - Really?

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On a side note: An adequate protein intake is as important for men as it is for women, but both can - for few with real effort - achieve adequate protein intakes from their diet alone - with the same muscle-building effects . If you believed only 50% of the claims on the boxes of the currently available protein supplements, you'd have to have at least five products from three different brands to see optimal results. Luckily, there's science to tell you that the only thing you need is a cheap high EAA protein source that doesn't give you gas, the runs or other side effects... Well, that's at least what a cursory analysis of the results of two new studies suggests. Together, they can be used to argue quite convincingly that neither the protein source ( beef , chicken or whey | Sharp 2017), nor the ratio of fast (whey) vs. slow (casein) proteins (Fabre 2017) will have a meaningful effect on the only relevant study outcome: your real-world gains. High-protein ...
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40 vs. 70g of Food Protein per Meal? No Ceiling Effect for Improvement(s) in Net Protein Balance (+65% w/ 70 vs. 40g)

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This study does almost everything right and yet, it still needs a follow-up study to address the question whether the results would be the same for fast(er) digesting proteins such as whey protein where 'more', i.e. ever-increasing boluses of protein, could actually increase the amount of protein that is being fed into gluconeogenesis, bros. You've read it here, you've read it elsewhere: Simply doubling your protein intake ain't going to double your gains. That's true and the latest data from the  Center for Translational Research in Aging and Longevity  at the  University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences ain't going to change that. The questionable, if not incorrect overemphasis on postprandial (meaning right after you ingested a protein shake) and/or post-exercise and -prandial (meaning after the protein shake you consumed right after a resistance training workout) skeletal muscle protein synthesis of the vast majority of studies that investigate the...
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Net Protein Retention and Dietary Protein: When It Comes to Steaks, More Helps More - By Inhibiting Protein Breakdown

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Want to maximize net protein retention? Order another one... another steak ;-) In view of the WHO's recent epidemiological bogus publication, ... ah I mean their review of the epidemiological research  that said that "red meat kills", it is quite surprising that the study Il-Young Kim and colleagues conducted in healthy young adults was even approved by the ethics committee of their respective research institutions. After all, the study involved measuring the whole body protein kinetics of young men and women after the consumption of ~40g (moderate protein, or MP) or, even "worse", ~70g (higher protein, HP) of protein in form of red meat  (85% lean ground beef) in a regular food matrix (=as part of a normal meal | see Table 1  for an exact overview of the macronutrient content). You can learn more about protein intake at the SuppVersity Are You Protein Wheysting? More Protein ≠ Autom. Fat Loss More Protein ≠ More Satiety Protein: Food o...
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Vitargo™, Red Bull™ + Co. Research - Are They Worth It? Beef Can Keep Up W/ Whey For Gains! "Creatine Loading" = Too Much of a Good Thing - ISSN Research Review '15 #1

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When you're running on a treadmill it obviously takes more than one serving of Red Bull or other commercial energy drinks to kickstart your workout performance | learn more below. Initially, I wanted to cherry pick only the most interesting study results that were presented in form of poster presentations at the Twelfth International Society of Sports Nutrition (ISSN) Conference and Expo in 2015. After looking at the research that is - as of now - only available in form of (albeit often detailed) abstracts, I decided that there are way too many interesting studies to cover only three of them in depth or all of them only cursory. Accordingly, I decided to start a SuppVersity Mini Special with this being the first out of 3-4 issues in which I will briefly discuss the most significant results of those of the roughly two dozen studies, I (a) believe are of greatest interest to you and (b) feel comfortable talking about without having all the details in form of the still to be publi...
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