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On Short Notice: Worst Transfat Offenders Cookies & Co + Cinnamophilin For Joints + Tomato Powder Battles Cancer Like Aspirin + Creatine Protects Cell Walls + Carboholism Starts in the Womb, Intermittent Fasting Helps... + More!

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Image 1 (lecker.de): They may look cute and harmless, but they are just one of the many incarnations of the worst transfatty acids offenders in the diets of the "average American" cake, cookie and pastry lovers. Believe it or not: Some of them manage to eat almost 100g of the proatherogenic fats per day (!) Saturday and therefore time for a handful of " On Short Notice " news. We've got some ground to cover, today, so let's get started right away: We will start out by taking a look at the joint-healing / -protective effects of cinnamophilin , a compound from the roots of the cinnamomum trees. We will reconsider the importance of adiponectin for the non-obese physical culturist , switch from aspirin to tomato powder as our cancer prevention "drug" of choice and re-appreciate the newly discovered cell-protective value of a supplement 90% of you are probably already taking: creatine! Once we are done with that we revisit the potential connect...

L-Arginine Biscuits Exhibit Ameliorated Insulin Response. A Viable Alternative for People with Metabolic Syndrome!?

"L-Arginine ameliorates insulin resistance and has beneficial effects on blood pressure", "Fat people love cookies and tend to develop insulin resistance!" - if these two thoughts get together in the head of an Italian scientists, a new product is born: the L-Arginine Biscuit! In a recent study Emanuela Setola ( Setola. 2011 ) investigated the effect of a biscuit with 6.6g arginine on selected metabolic parameters of 7 healthy subjects. The results are encouraging: A significant increase of nitric oxide (NOx) and cGMP levels were significantly increased with Biscuit +L-ARG 6.6 g and Powdered L-ARG as compared to Biscuit. AUC NOx and cGMP were significantly increased (p<0.04vs Biscuit). Percentage incremental increase of post-ischemic blood flow significantly increased with Biscuit +L-ARG 6.6 g and Powdered L-ARG, suggesting a functional effect of L-ARG added to the food preparation. Further, at 240 minute mean arterial blood pressure and peripheral v...
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