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Raw Milk + Honey Accelerates DOMS Recovery of Trained Athletes Compared to Chocolate Milk, But There's a Catch...

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While many US officials still believe that raw milk was a threat to public health. The internet is full of (often hilarious) health claims related to raw milk and the ill effects of pasturization. Could the study at hand provide evidence this is not complete bogus? Maybe you remember that I have been talking with my friend Carl Lanore about raw milk, pasteurization and (even worse) homogenization several times when I still had the time to do the weekly SuppVersity Science Round-Ups on SuperHumanRadio . Until now, the evidence for the often proclaimed benefits of raw milk are skinny. With the publication of a recent study by Andrew Hatchett and colleagues from the  Franklin Pierce University  this evidence the number of relevant studies has therefore increased significantly. What makes the study so relevant? Well, it was a randomized human trial in twenty healthy male collegiate sprint football (mean age 20y; height ~175cm, weight ~80kg; 1RM back squat of ~125kg; 80%...

Milk, Tea & Honey - Two Things Don't Belong: Milk & Sugar Potently Reduce Antioxidant Effects of Green & Black Tea

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Chi Latte is a sugar bomb, but no healthy, antioxidant beverage. Over the past couple of weeks it has become relatively quiet in the "tea is good for your health", "tea makes you lose weight magically", "tea reduces diabetes risk", etc. column of the science news here at the SuppVersity, and in general. Ok, you still got your daily "green tea reduces inflammation study", but let's face it. That's boring. What is interesting, however, are the results of a recent study that's about to be published in Food Chemistry (Korir. 2013). In this very paper, a group of researchers from the Egerton University in Kenya, the Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in East and Central Africa in Uganda and the Tea Research Foundation of Kenya report that... Adding milk or sweeteners to your tea will reduce its antioxidative capacity And the effects the researchers observed in vitro and in vivo, were pretty significant, as y...
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