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The Case Against Saccharin: Weight Gain in 12-Wk Human Study Only W/ 1st Gen. Sweetener or Sucrose | Plus: Have You Noticed That Coke 'Secretly' Pulled it Only Recently?

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I had to change both, article and thumbnail repeatedly. Initially, I realized that the EU coke ZERO formula contained saccharin, while the US version didn't, then I checked on the official website and found (a) 'Zero' is no longer officially sold in Germany and the follow-up "Zero Sugar" doesn't contain saccharin in the US & EU 😲 If you follow the SuppVersity  and/or myself on Facebook, you will have seen my link to an interview with the author of the "artificial sweeteners" <> "stroke" study that made the headlines lately. In the interview, the lead author puts his results into perspective; a step that's absolutely missing from 99% of the press coverage ... worth reading, but unlike the study Tal Ben Moshe shared on the ISSN Facebook yesterday, not a new intervention study in living human beings - one that taught me several lessons in the history and spectrum of coke's sweetener compositions. You can learn mor...
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Santa is Coming to Town and You Better Beware of His Gifts: Fat Gain, Muscle Loss and Increased Mortality Rates.

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Image 1: The "modern" image of the Coke-drinking Santa. Do you really believe he is one of the good guys? Finally, December 24th is there! The day we have all been waiting for, to get together with friends and relatives and wait for the portly, joyous, white-bearded man in the red coat to deliver "his" gifts. Interestingly enough, the word "gift" in German designates "poison" and while those of you who have been following the SuppVersity news earlier this week may now be speculating that this could in one way or another be related to the millions of iPhones Santa is going to be dropping down the chimneys in the night to come (cf. Mobile Contraception ), it seems unlikely that the electromagnetic radiation from the gadgetry could explain the statistically significant +4.65% increase in cardiac and a + 4.99% increase in non-cardiac deaths during the holiday season. After all, the data based on which David P. Phillips, Jason R. Jarvinen, Ian S....
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Gadgetry & Caffeine a Dynamic Duo for Sleep Deprivation and, Consequently, Obesity in School-Aged Children

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Ever wondered what your children do, when you send them to bed in the evening? According to the results of a study from the Department of Family and Community Health at the University of Maryland School of Nursing, they probably drink Coke and watch TV or play video-games. Does not sound too bad? Well, Calamaro et al. found that children who drank caffeinated beverages had 15 fewer minutes of sleep per night than did children who did not drink such beverages ( b = –0.27, P = .002). Children with three technology items in their bedroom received 45 fewer minutes of sleep than did children without these items in their bedroom ( b = –0.75, P = .010). Still not impressed? What if I told you that these kids missed out on 15 to 60 minutes of what - to my mind - is the most healthiest, most anabolic and most lipolytic time of the day (sleep), and that the study provides evidence for the hypothesis that the immediate consequence of caffeine induced sleep deprivation is obesity? If you ...
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Caramel Coloring, E150D, or Coca Cola Brown: Not So Carcinogenic as Some People Would Have It

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You probably have read it in the NEWS: "Caramel Coloring in Cola carcinogenic!" Well, after yesterday's post on aspartame , I thought it might be advisable to have a closer look at this one, as well. After all, it suddenly appeared more likely that the sulfite ammonia caramel in your diet coke would kill you than the overly dreaded artificial sweetener aspartame. Although almost none of the webpages, which covered the carcinogenicity of caramel coloring cites the original source of this information, it is yet not difficult to find the respective study ( Moon. 2001 ) on PubMed. It was published in the Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry and contains the following small table with data about the amount of 4(5)-Methylimidazole (a byproduct of the production process) in five commercially available cola softdrinks: cola soft-drink     amount (μg/mL)         in one bottle (μg/591 mL) brand 1 0.36±0.02 212.76 brand 2 0....
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Coca Cola Financed Study Finds Beneficial Effect of Carbohydrate Supplementation on Physical and Mental Performance

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This certainly is one of the examples, where science is somewhat similar to politics: If the defense industry finances the campaign of a politic, will he to turn his back on them by reducing the expenditure on arms, will he? No? So, you better take it with a grain of skepticism that Watson et al. ( Watson. 2010 ) found that a 3% or 6% carbohydrate solution increased time to exhaustion and response time as measured by / after a series of standardized fitness tests in 10 helthy males (mean±SD age 25±3 years; height 1.75±0.06 m; mass 75.9±6.4 kg; VO 2max 54.2±5.0 ml/kg/min): Time to exhaustion in the MSFT was 9.9±2.0 min, 10.2±2.0 min, 10.9±1.9 min and 11.2±1.8 min in the no fluid, water, 3% and 6% CHO trials, respectively (p=0.004). Core temperature reached 38.9±0.4°C during the no fluid trial, 38.5±0.4°C in the water trial and 38.6±0.3°C at the end of the CHO trials (p=0.011). T...
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