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Carbohydrate Mouth-Rinses Activate Brain Areas Involved in Visual Perception & Reward - Are There Implication For Athletes & Obese Individuals You Need to Know?

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CHO Mouth rinsing? Cyclist do it, but they do a lot of things ;-) You know what a "mouth-rinse" is, right? That's when you wash some sort of liquid "through" your mouth and spit it out without swallowing. Over the past years, I have probably read a dozen of papers on this topic and although I did not keep exact record, I am pretty sure that six of them presented positive results (meaning the carbohydrate mouth-rinse increased performance), while the other six reported a null-result (no performance increase). The former is also the main reason I did not address this topic in any previous articles in detail. A couple of days ago, I hit on a study that made me reconsider my previous decision that the contemporary evidence would suggest it's not really worth talking or rather writing about carbohydrate mouth rinses. If you are looking for effective ergogenics, loot into creatine at the SuppVersity Creatine Doubles 'Ur GainZ! Creatine, DHT ...
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Sucralose, Hazardous or Innocent? Part II: Appetite, Gut Health & Food Reward | Sucralose, Gluttony & Adiposity?

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Plain mineral water is still the best thing to quench your thirst. Today we are going to continue our thorough, educated reading of the recently published overview over the biological issues with sucrolase, a "popular" artificial sweetener most of you will probably know by its brand name Splenda. The focus of part I of this series was on the potential pro-diabetic effects of this agent that belongs to a class of molecules that has originally been hailed as a solution to the diabetes problem (it goes without saying that I am talking about artificial sweeteners here, right?). In a way we are thus only continuing the discussion, when we are trying to verify Schiffman's & Rother's argument that the consumption of sucralose is associated with an increase in obesity risk... or, put more simply that using sucralose is going to make you fat, not lean. The good old "energy in" vs. "energy out" argument As SuppVersity readers you are well aware...
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No-Carb Foods, Artificial Sweeteners & The Cravings: In The End, It's The Glucose, Not The Taste Our Brains Crave

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Despite the fact that candy is per definition (literally) made of sugar, you can buy "no carb candy" at every corner. The results of this study tell you why these aren't worth the money. I have written extensively about artificial sweeteners in the past and would thus hope that it's not necessary to recount all the information about how they interact with insulin, potential toxicity risks, their (non-existent) effects on satiety... ah, well actually I do want to talk about the last point, because it is highly relevant to understand the implications of the results of recent Yale study (Tellez. 2013). I know, it's just a rodent study, but I guess you will feel reminded of yourselves during your diet, when I tell you about the observations Luis A Tellez, Xueying Ren, Wenfei Han, Sara Medina, Jozelia Ferreira, Catherine Yeckel and Ivan E de Araujo made an experiment that is the first to demonstrate that the lack of glucose utilization in the brain makes artifi...
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