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Super Bowl, A Question of Life or Cardiovascular Death! ✰ Are Super BOWLs to Blame For the US Obesity Epidemic? ✰ By BMI Standards the Average NFL Player is "Obese"

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Conundrum of the day: Is it really any wonder, that the average American has weight problems if their football stars are obese? After reading the "Cultural Guide to the Super Bowl for People Who Don't Watch Football" ( read it yourself) on Wire.com, I realized that I cannot simply ignore Super Bowl XLVIII and since I have absolutely no idea of how American Football works and how it came about that you, my dear US friends, are going crazy about people carrying a ball that's called FOOT-ball (I mean, it's not "carry-ball") around in your arms, I decided to do what I usually do, when I don't understand things: Look for answers on the science databases on the Internet. I have to admit, I did not really find the answer to my initial question and I still don't know the rules of the game, but I found a couple of "related" stories, you may be interested in: Super-BOWLs to blame for the obesity epidemic (van Kleef. 2012) -- I guess this...
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Muscle Activation of Chest, Core, Delts & Rotator Cuff When You Bench on Unstable Ground, Calcium Supplementation & Vascular Disease. BMI, BAI , Body Fat & CVD Risk

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This week's SuppVersity figure(s) of the week deal with the leading cause of death in the USA (see paper attached to the guy's big toe ;-). After reading yesterday's installment of the Science Round-Up Seconds, you already know that it is unlikely that you are going to die from prostate cancer.... but let's face it - we all are going to die one day, so if your death is not natural and not due to prostate cancer? What's going to the reason? Well, according to the latest CDC data you, my American friends are going to die from heart disease - ok, not you, a devoted follower of physical culturist, but the average American a devoted follower of Dr. Oz and the sedentary way of living, has an 0.2‰ chance of dying from heart disease and following one of the 597,689 victims the Western way of life claimed in 2010 (CDC. 2011) Chest presses on an unstable surface - A new staple exercise? Or bogus? (McHardy. 2013) -- I am not quite sure about the States, but over here in...
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Increasing Adolescent Obesity Among Girls: How School Stress is the New Scapegoat When the Skinny Fat Phenomenon and Twinkie Diets Really are to Blame.

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Image 1: Was it school stress that cost Michelle Obama her famous "guns" (=muscular upper arms)? Probably not - and despite contrary conclusions in the study at hand, I doubt that it is school stress that leaves our daughters fat, but undermuscled. What do you say? According to the results of a recent evaluation of the data from the European HELENA trial, school, or rather the stress your children are exposed to within the educational system, may be one of the reasons for the increasing number of obese adolescents (age 12-18 years) - at least if we trust the statistical finesse of Tineke De Vriendt, Els Clays and 10 other scientists who recently published a paper on European adolescents’ level of perceived stress and its relationship with body adiposity in the European Journal of Public Health ( DeVriendt. 2011 ). The study was part of the Healthy Lifestyle in Europe by Nutrition in Adolescence cross-sectional study (HELENA-CSS) , the aim of which is to obtain "reli...
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The Hair-to-Belly Cortisol Connection: Hair Analysis As Reliable Tool for Longterm Cortisol Analyses

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Figure 1: 3D model of molecular structure of cortisol (Wikipedia) Although cortisol is probably one of the most important hormones, and a lack of cortisol will provoke symptoms which can range from simple fatigue to death, chronically elevated levels of this essential corticosteroid are associated with increases in visceral obesity and its entailing metabolic pathologies, which are commonly described as "the metabolic syndrome". The results of a very recent study ( Manenschijn: 2011 ), that was published in the medical journal Steroids , may thus turn out to be a valuable tool in the a:nalysis of the underlying causes of pathological obesity and its consequences. Manenschijn et al. collected hair samples of 195 healthy individuals, 9 hypercortisolemic and one hypocortisolemic patient and measured the cortisol levels in the hais and saliva of their subjects. They then correlated the data with waist and hip circumferences, as well as blood pressure values of 46 of the h...
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Even Individuals on a "Healthy" Diet May Benefit from Supplemental Fiber

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Fiber has been advertised for years as a universal health promoter. It curves appetite, reduces cholesterol and improves digestion - but is it really necessary to supplement with additional fiber, if your intake in fibrous veggies etc. is already high? A recent study by scientists from Australia ( Pal. 2010 ) suggests that it may not be necessary, yet beneficial. Figure 1: Changes in body weight (A); BMI (B); % body fat (C) and waist circumference (D). From left to right: Control, FIB, HLT, HLT-FIB Studying a cohort of 72 overweight and obese individuals with a BMI between 25 and 40 kg/m 2 and age between 18 and 65 years, the researchers found that over a time period of 12 weeks in which the subjects either practiced their "normal" eating habits or changed to a healthy food diet (HFT), supplemented with fiber (FIB) or switched to a healthy food diet that was supplemented with fiber (HFT-FIB)... [...] weight, BMI and % total body fat were significantly reduced in FIB...
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Zinc Supplementation Helps Prepubescent Children with Metabolic Syndrome

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Zinc ain't for bodybuilders, only! In a double blind placebo controlled crossover study Kelishadi et al. ( Kelishadi. 2010 ) supplemented prepubescent obese children with metabolic syndrome with 20mg of elemental zinc to evaluate the effects of zinc supplementation on anthropometric measures and blood pressure, fasting plasma glucose, lipid profile, insulin, apolipoproteins A-1 (ApoA-I) and B, high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP), leptin, oxidized low-density lipoprotein (ox-LDL), and malondialdehyde: Irrespective of the order of receiving zinc and placebo, in both groups, significant decrease was documented for Apo B/ApoA-I ratio, ox-LDL, leptin and malondialdehyde, total and LDL-cholesterol after receiving zinc without significant change after receiving placebo. In groups, hs-CRP and markers of insulin resistance decreased significantly after receiving zinc, but increased after receiving placebo. In both groups, the mean body mass index (BMI) Z-score remain...
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