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Protein & Veggies First, Carbs Later: New Study Highlights Significance of Nutrient Order for Glycemia & Insulinemia

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If you have problems with postprandial glucose and insulin excursions, you should consider picking your burgers apart to be able to eat the carbs 10 minutes after you devoured the proteins and veggies... and yes, it's likely you'll skip the bun and reduce your overall energy intake, as well. If you're following my friend Alex Leaf  on Facebook, you will have heard about the role of "nutrient order" (that's not " nutrient timing ") as an important determinant of your postprandial glucose response. If you haven't heard about this, yet, let me briefly bring you up to speed: In a previous crossover study ( Shukla 2017 ) involving metformin-treated subjects with T2DM, the authors of the study that's at the center of today's SuppVersity article have already demonstrated that the ingestion of the protein and vegetable components (e.g. tomato, onion, and salad leaf + burger patty) of a given meal  10 minutes before  the carbohydrate component...
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Stretching Helps Glucose Control | Curcumin Limits Weight-Regain | Arachidonic Acid + Training = NOT Inflammatory

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About time for another installment of the SuppVersity Short News . Isn't it? Today: Stretching + Glycemia, Curcumin + Weight(-Re)Gain, ARA + Inflammation Have you been waiting for a new installment of the SuppVersity Short News ? Well, the waiting just ended. In today's installment, I will shed some light on the weight(re)gain-limiting effects of curcumin and their mechanistic underpinnings, (2) explain how post-prandial stretching may help you control your blood sugar surges, and (3) answer the question whether the (meanwhile hardly available) alleged muscle-building (pro-inflammatory) long-chain omega-6 fatty acid, arachidonic acid (ARA, yes that's the alleged evil twin brother to DHA and EPA), doesn't just improve the myogenic (=muscle promoting) gene response to exercise but will also ruin your health. Read about exercise- and nutrition-related studies in the SuppVersity Short News Alcohol, Microbes & International Chest Day Aug '15 Ex.Res. Upd.:...
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Eating Your Largest Meal for Lunch, Instead of Dinner May Have Real World Weight Loss & Health Benefits | Guest Post

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You better super-size that lunch box if you plan to enjoy the scientifically suggested health and body weight benefits of getting the lion's share of your energy intake at lunch, instead of dinner [15%, 50%, 15% + 15% (ideally) healthy snacks]. This is one of the rare occasions when SuppVersity  articles need an introduction before the introduction. Why's that? Well, in contrast to 99.9% of the other 2280 SuppVersity articles the following text wasn't written by myself, but by my good friend Alex Leaf. How's that? Well, as Alex is going to point out in the next paragraph. He was the one who spotted the latest "meal timing" study and I thought that Alex's at least as qualified as I am. He's, after all, an important contributor to the Examine Research Digest (always the articles that need the least editing ;-) and a registered general and sports nutritionist with his own business , while I am just... well, a physicist. "So why don't you l...
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Too Much Whey Today, Type II Diabetes Tomorrow - Human Study: Whey Reduces Muscular Glucose Uptake by 25%!

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Is it really bad to drink that whey shake before you eat the bananas, strawberries and blueberries, because whey makes you insulin resistant? Sounds "bogussy" and a closer look at the questionable methodological choices of the scientists who conducted the study don't make the results sign. more credible. In the fitness community, whey protein is the #1 on the "must have supplement" list. Multi-vitamins? Creatine? Who cares, as long as you get your 30g of whey per day, you're good... really? One of you recently send me a study that would suggest that "good" is not exactly the right word to describe the effects of whey protein on at least one out of the set of well-established parameters of optimal metabolic health: Your muscles' insulin sensitivity. In the paper that has been published in the reputable scientific journal " Diabetes ", Gordon I. Smith and colleagues describe an experiment the results of which clearly suggest that ...
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Resistant Starch Powered Health Bagels - High RS Bagel Consumption Improves Glycemia in T2DM Risk Patients

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If you put salmon on a high RS bagel that may actually qualify as healthy meal. Ok, don't get me wrong. I do not recommend making bagels, regular or resistant starch enhanced, a prominent part of your diet, but if you want to take a bagel along to the office, the high RS bagels Sarah A. Dainty baked for the experiment she conducted as part of the thesis she presented to  The University of Guelph , may be a better choice - specifically if you fill your bagel with salmon or other high protein foods. Dainty conducted a randomized, double-blind crossover study to examine the glycemic effects of 8-week consumption of high-RS bagels (25 g RS) or control bagels in adults with a high type II diabetes risk (n=24). After being fermented, resistant starches act (partly) via the  gut - health  axis. Bugs Dictate What You Crave Sweeteners & Your Gut Foods, Not Ma- cros for the Gut Lactulose For Gut & Health Probiotics Don't Cut Body Fat The Macr...
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