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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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A Double Dose of HIIT vs. Aerobics. Hazelnuts, Mushrooms, Strawberries = Polyphenol Powered Superfoods W/ Anti-Cancer & -Diabesity Effects. Plus: Backdoor to DHT

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Actually the first post in today's installment of On Short Notice is a direct continuation of the SuppVersity Exercise Science Week with an intriguing novel contribution to the never-ending steady state vs. HIIT debate by scientists from the University of Birmingham (UK) Hypothyroidism kills and therefore the SuppVersity Figure of the Week comes from a study on the effect of hypothyroidism on all-cause mortality from Denmark (Thvilum. 2013). The respective data comes from an observational cohort study and spans the years between January 1, 1978 and December 31, 2008. With an increased risk of  +52% (after stratification for the figure dropped to "only" +21%)  in the 3587 singletons, +61% in dizygotic twin pairs, but only +7% in monogyzotic twins, it's yet not quite clear, whether it's the being hypothyroid or rather having the disposition of developing respective problems is actually associated with an increased mortality. After all, you would expect simil...
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