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May I Salt & Roast My Nuts? Plus: If Catechins Boost One's Energy Expenditure by 400% Why Don't They Work for Me?

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One article, two questions, two science-based answers. If you're like me I bet that you've been asking yourself previously, whether the cheap roasted nuts at the supermarket have the same health benefits as the expensive "raw" nuts from the health-food store... guess what: a recent study by scientists from the Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences  and the University of Otago  confirms: "Dry roasting and lightly salting nuts do[es] not appear to negate the cardioprotective effects observed with raw nut consumption, and both forms of nuts are resistant to [dietary] monotony" and thus similarly recommendable health-foods. Along with the latest "green tea for thermogenesis"-study, which finally answers the important question "If Catechins Boost One's Energy Expenditure by 400% Why Don't They Work for Me?", the Chinese-New-Zealand co-production is one of the two studies in today's SuppVersity article. Learn more about...
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Fat-Blocker Effect of Tea Catechins Confirmed (?) in Man - Sign. Abdominal Fat Loss (5-8%) in 12 Weeks W/Out Diet

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Tea catechins (which can also be found in black and jasmin tea | see Figure 3 ) can help you keep particularly unhealthy abdominal fat (Després. 2012) at bay. It is one thing to have in-vitro and rodent data that green tea can inhibit the digestion of dietary fat (reported previously in the SuppVersity Facebook News ); it is another thing, however, to have a human study like the one Makoto Kobayashi and colleagues are about to publish in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Food & Function  that shows that the "[i]ngestion of a green tea beverage enriched with catechins with a galloyl moiety (THEA-FLAN 90S) during a high-fat meal reduces body fat in moderately obese adults" (Kobayashi. 2015). Ok, the abdominal fat loss does not, as the previous quote from the conclusion appears to suggest, occur instantly right after you've consumed your first tea w/ a single meal. You can learn more about green tea at the SuppVersity GT Boosts Res- ting & Ex. Indu- ...
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Chocolicious Statin: One Week "on" 100g/day of 70% Dark Chocolate Improves Cholesterol Profile and Reduces Waist Circumference in "Skinny Fat" Women

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With the average German eating 9-10kg of chocolate per year we should be pretty heart healthy... well, if more than 10g of those were dark chocolate, I suppose. You know what? I am pretty enervated by the reverberations of the notorious "chocolate makes Nobel Laureates" study. Even now, month after the publication, the media hype and the head-shaking on part of anyone who does have the slightest idea of the difference between association and causation, it's still all over the place. On my part this has lead to a "desensitization" with respect to the word "chocoloate" in medical journals, so that I had almost missed this ground-braking study from the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Tor Vergata in Rome, the National Institute for Mediterranean Diet and Nutrigenomic in Cosenza and the UOS of Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacology at the University Magna Graecia,Roccelletta di Borgia in Catanzaro, Italy (di Renzo. 2013) Chocol...
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Probiotics + Green Tea - Synergistic Superstack or Sciency Non-Sense? Green Tea Alone Totally Blunts HFD Induced Weight Gain, L. Plantarum Does Not Add to Its Effects

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L. plantarum may metabolize green tea phenols, but don't add to their anti-diabesity effects  Green tea has actually never seized being all the rage and probiotics are the sexy new kid on the block right around the corner of the supplement shops and and science laboratories of the western hemisphere. Against that background I guess that the title of a paper that's been published ahead of print on Monday will probably suffice to catch your interest: "Green tea powder and Lactobacillus plantarum affect gut microbiota, lipid metabolism and inflammation in high-fat fed C57BL/6J mice." (Axling. 2012) - and that despite the fact that "mice are no little men" ;-) '1 + 1 =4' the synergism of green tea and probiotics could make it possible I guess, the idea sounds logic: Take one thing that has been proven to ameliorate diet induced obesity, namely green tea, and combine that with another one, of which it appears as if it would also exhibit beneficial...
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Green Tea Extracts for Building Strength & Size and Losing Weight - Fact or Fraud? Or, Why It is Always Worth Taking a Look at the Data that Is NOT in the Abstract.

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Image 1: If the watery green tea is healthy, then a potent extract must be even more healthy, right? This may well be just another instance of "supplementational idiocy"... I know people love their Green Tea! After all, Camellia sinensis is one of the staples that has not yet been debunked as another hoax of the supplement of pharmaceutical industry - a real healthfood, right!? Well, you will probably be familiar with my skepticisms towards the notion that taking tons of the polyphenols you are "supposed" to get in relatively small quantities from 2-3 cups of green tea in supplemental form must necessarily be a good thing, just because epidemiological data suggests that people who consume green tea (for those who only now this stuff in capped form: Green tea is actually a beverage ;-) in moderation are overall healthier than people who abstain from drinking hot water extracts (=tea) from minimally oxidized (=green) Camellia sinensis leaves. Did you miss m...
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-20% Reduction in Serum Testosterone by 5 Cups of Green Tea. Endocrine Effects Depend on Catechin Composition.

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Image 1: Another SuperFood gone bad? More than 2-3 cups of green tea could do more harm than good to health-conscious male tea-consumers. While I obviously do not know whether you have come in contact with the rumors surrounding the effects of green tea extract (GTE) on the male reproductive system, I assume that many of you (despite the fact that this is obviously not necessary if you read the SuppVersity news everyday ;-) will be active on one of the various health and fitness related bulletin-boards, where - and here I am certain - the issue of reduced testosterone levels from GTE consumption has certainly been addressed at some point. According to a recent study, published in the September issue Indian Journal of Experimental Biology ( Chandra. 2011 ), your favorite anti-oxidant fat burner Camellia sinensis L. , in other words, green tea, has in fact to be counted among those therapeutic agents that despite having been used since ancient times, are not as safe as man...
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Brewing the Perfect Green Tea: Best Brewing Time and Temperature for Optimal Potency

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Here is something for all of you who have always asked themselves how to prepare their tea to "get the most out of it". Well, I know normal people would go by taste, but are we normal? No! We want maximal antioxidant-content and a decent amount of caffeine to jack us up and this is where the results from a recent study ( Ziaedini. 2010 ) come into play. The scientists from the Iranian Institute of Research and Development in Chemical Industries investigated the effect of different brewing times and temperatures on the amount of antioxidants and caffeine you'll get in your tea. Here are the results (cf. table 1): Table 1: Diffusion coefficients of catechins and caffeine obtained for conventional extraction of green tea leaves. Obviously it takes a decent temperature of ~70°C to achieve maximal diffusion of the constituents in the short and in the long term. In spite of that, a close look at one of the graphs (cf. figure 1) Figure 1: EGCG content as a function of t...
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