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Exercise Blunts Insulin Resistance & Hyperlipidaemia Due to 7-Day +50% / +75% Overfeeding in Athletic Young Men

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Gluttony is one of the 7 sins - no wonder that eating more than you "deserve" makes you ugly and sick. Everybody knows that "physical activity is good for you" . Some, like me, even go so far to say that it's necessary - at least for those of us who plan to lead a healthy life into their old age. The classic idea that many of its beneficial effects are related to the ability of physical exercise to fix your dietary lapses on the other hand, has turned out to be - at best - part of of the 'health equation' (see "The Fallacy of Working Out to Burn Energy" | read more ). Nevertheless, Jean-Phillipe Walhin and his colleagues from the University of Bath demonstrate in their most recent paper that the ability of exercise to blunt the ill health effects of short-term overfeeding is a non-negligible part of the 'health equation'. Don't worry this is a human trial! For their experiment Jean-Philippe Walhin, Judith D. Richardson, ...
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Intermittent Thoughts on Intermittent Fasting - Programing Success: Accept Your Weaknesses, Learn From Your Mistakes, Identify Your Strengths and Build a Better Body!

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Image 1: You may call it "toning" or "shaping", but in the end it's bodybuilding in the literal sense. Assuming that you are all " lean and mean " by now and thus ready to build some serious muscle (for those who missed it, read last week's installment on " Why you better lean out before bulking "), we can finally delve into your first steps on your way to ... wait. I hope you did not forget your "motivational elevator pitch" from the first part of this part of the Intermittent Thoughts , where I asked you to come to terms with what it actually is that you want to achieve . Now, the good news is that regardless of whether you are just sick of that lose skin on your upper arms or want to compete against Phil Heath at the 2012 Mr. Olympia, there are a few fundamental principles that apply regardless of whether you are striving for "toned" 11 inch arms or Coleman-esque 22 inch guns. Gaining weight? Yes! Getting fat?...
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Binging Counter-Indicated Not Even, but Especially in Pregnancy: Excessive Gestational Weight Gain Associated With Higher Body Fat in Infants

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A recent study conducted by a group of researchers from New York ( Hull. 2011 ) found that excessive gestational weight gain in already overweight women had detrimental consequences on the body composition of their offspring: [I]nfants from obese mothers had greater percent fat (%fat) and FM than offspring from normal and overweight mothers. Within the excessive group, infants from normal mothers had less %fat and FM than infants from overweight and obese mothers. This is alarming news, especially if one takes into consideration the results of Conan et al. from Harvard ( Conan. 2010 ) who found that "birth weight [and I would suppose body fat even more so] is significantly associated with incident AF [arterial fibration]" in later life. Figure 1: Infant body fat [%] in formerly normal, overweight and obese women with either appropriate of excessive gestational weight gain These results should remind mothers-to-be that the good old saying "you are what you eat...
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