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Freezing, Defrosting, Toasting, and Your Glucose Response to White Bread | Additives Ruin Part of the 30-37% Benefit

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Who would have thought that: More convenient, in the eyes of most people better tasting and still better for your blood glucose management: Take white bread from the freezer, defrost at room temperature overnight, and toast it for a 30% reduction in postprandial glycemia even if you're perfectly healthy! In the SuppVersity Kitchen Science article-series, I address questions that may have passed your mind when you've been cooking, doing the groceries, or looking at the photos of your favorite Insta-Foodies. Today's article addresses the reality of "Making white bread great(er) again!"  Or, shall I write "making the glucose excursions from eating white bread smaller again" - having more than 30% less glucose trickling into the blood of absolutely healthy subjects who were recruited for a study at the Oxford Brookes University ( Burton 2007 ).(three male and seven female) sounds "great", no? Review older articles about bread & co. and ...
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Shed 25% Extra-Fat (1.6kg/12Wk) + Improve Glucose Levels by Adding 2.5h/Wk of Walking to Your/Clients' Fatloss Diet/s

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The amount and quality of food you eat determine how much weight you will lose, the quantity and quality of exercise controls how much of your weight loss is going to come from body fat. One of the biggest mistakes a coach can make is to overwhelm his clients with taxing workouts that ruin their already low "excitement" for getting off the couch altogether. I've previously discussed studies that show: especially in people who still have a ton of weight to lose intense workouts are not necessary to accelerate clients' weight loss and promote fat over lean mass loss. A recent study from the universities of Münster and Bonn (both in Germany) provides additional evidence in favor of the prowess of low-intensity exercise as a weight- and, more importantly, fat loss promoter. If you are more advanced or want to help advanced clients periodize their training! 30% More on the Big Three: Squat, DL, BP! Mix Things Up Periodically to Make Extra-Gains Linear vs...
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GABA Supplementation Improves Glucose Management - Even in Healthy Subjects | Significant Reduction in Glycated Albumin Levels After Only 7 Days on 3x2g GABA per Day

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No acute changes in blood glucose, but extreme changes in insulin levels. How can this trigger a reduction in glycated albumin - How's that possible?  You've read about gamma aminobutyric acid (GABA) at the SuppVersity  before. While most people think of it mainly as a calming agent, though, SuppVersity  readers know that it has the remarkable ability to heal the insulin producing β-cell in rodents by stimulating their replication, protecting them against apoptosis, and attenuating insulitis (Soltani. 2011; Tian. 2013; Prud'homme. 2014; Purwana. 2014). And while these favorable effects were first observed in mice, researchers are quite sure that they are valid in humans, too- that's also because said effects have been confirmed only recently by Tian et al. (2014) and Purwana et al. (2014) in vitro as well as in xenotransplanted human islets. Learn more about the effects of GABA & co at the SuppVersity GABA Diabesity Treatment Phenibut Addic- tive ...
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Magnesium & Type II Diabetes - Link not as Straightforward as Some Experts & Supp. Recommendations Suggest

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If Mg is the solution, then in form of high Mg foods, not supplements. If you've ever googled "magnesium and diabetes", you will probably have read a sentence like this "magnesium (Mg) is actively involved in a number of metabolic reactions as an important co-factor with special emphasis on carbohydrate metabolism (Mooren. 2015). Unlike the latest paper by the German scientists Frank C. Mooren from the Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen from which I've grabbed the previously cited statement, your Google results will yet probably have treated  this  observation as if it was conclusive evidence that the provision of extra-magnesium would solve the T2DM-crisis of the Western wordl. In his review, Mooren doesn't make the same mistake, instead he provides a brief, but in-depth overview of the regulation of intra- and extracellular Mg and the regulatory role of Mg in important metabolic pathways involved in energy metabolism and glycaemic control. Learn m...
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Macro Ratios & Glucose Management: Eating Lower GI Carbs and Higher Protein Alone is Less Effective in Blood Sugar Normalization Than You May Have Thought

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Macronutrient ratios matters, but food quality does, too. And so do exercise, laziness, sleep, .... the list is endless, so can we be surprised that modulating GI and protein is not helping much? We all "know" that going low(er) carb is good for your blood glucose management, right? Nice! So, we probably don't need studies like the Marleen A. van Baak's conducted only recently, right? I mean, carbs are bad! So why would we even be interested to hear how much the subjects of the Diogenes Study lost on one of four different diets with varying protein content and glycemic index? Or who would want to know what the subjects' 24-h glucose profiles on one out of four diets differing in carbohydrate content by 10 energy % and glycemic index by 20 units during three days. No one would like to know that, right!? In view of the fact that you're still there, I suppose that I was wrong and you are interested in the effects of different marconutrient ratios and type...
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