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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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Drink Your Milk! Scientists Unlock the Health Secrets of the White Elixir of Life

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Arnold said "Milk is for babies", yet recent studies showed that chocolate milk is among the most effective post-workout drinks you can consume and whey proteins are a stable not only of almost every bodybuilder's diet regimens. In a recent review, a group of Irish scientists ( Mills. 2011 ) attempt to summarize all the available information on the "ever-accumulating range of bioactivities associated with milk substituents"; and the sheer size of the paper underlines that there probably is much more to milk than Arnold would have imagined. Table 1: Milk-derived bioactive peptides in commercially available functional foods and ingredients ( Mills. 2011 ) Table 1 (truncated from Mills. 2011 ) shows a summary of the most important components of milk and their proclaimed beneficial health effects. So, don't let anyone tell you milk was for babies, only ;-) Edit : I think it is noteworthy to say that (of course) this review was supported by the milk indus...
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Want to Relieve Insulin Resistance? Eat your Blueberries!

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Scientists from the Center for the Study of Botanicals and Metabolic Syndrome at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center of the Louisiana State University have found that bioactives in blueberries improve Insulin Sensitivity in Obese, Insulin-Resistant Men and Women . The researchers measured inflammatory biomarkers and adiposity of 32 obese, nondiabetic, and insulin-resistant men and women and found that after 6 weeks of supplementation with either a smoothie containing 22.5 g blueberry bioactives (blueberry group, n = 15) or a smoothie of equal nutritional value without added blueberry bioactives (placebo group, n = 17) twice daily, The mean change in insulin sensitivity improved more in the blueberry group (1.7 ± 0.5 mg·kg FFM–1·min–1) than in the placebo group (0.4 ± 0.4 mg·kg FFM–1·min–1) (P = 0.04). Insulin sensitivity was enhanced in the blueberry group at the end of the study without significant changes in adiposity , energy intake, and inflammatory biomarkers. Being e...
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