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Egg or Oatmeal, What's the Less Inflammatory Breakfast? In Diabetics, the Answer Comes (Un-)expected: It's the Egg!

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If you cannot decide: Oatmeal or eggs, try oatmeal with sunny-side up eggs, avocado, cheddar and chives | more In spite of the fact that it's true that epidemiological studies still report controversies on the effects of dietary cholesterol and egg intake on the risk for heart disease in patients with diabetes (Shin. 2013; Qureshi. 2006), you as a SuppVersity reader will know that convincing experimental evidence for the causative relation between eating eggs and a worsening of health-relevant lipid-markers is more or less simply "non-existent" ( read more ). In fact, more recent evidence suggests that "an egg a day" may keep the doctor away about as reliable as the proverbial "apple" of which Alex taught you that it'll keep the doc away. Eggs have a more favorable protein / CHO ratio than oatmeal Are You Protein Wheysting? 5x More Than the FDA Allows! Protein requ. of athletes Natural or Supplemental? Protein Timing DO...
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It's True: Fructose Makes You Fat - In Fact, It Even Makes You Make Fat! Study Shows, HFCS Beverages Kickstart Endogenous Palmitic Acid Production, Sugary Ones Don't

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In the fashion business, "light or not light" (light=diet as in "Diet Coke" US vs Coke Light Germany) is not really a question to ask. Actually I have given up writing about fructose. It appears as if everyone was so bamboozled by the obvious bullsh*t you can read all over the Internet that it's useless to tell them that you are not going to get obese from eating one, two or even ten apples a day! In view of the fact that today's SuppVersity article is about the negative effects of fructose, I am yet quite confident that more than the few enlightened SuppVersity regulars will read it. I mean, who would not want to know whether moderate amounts of various sugars (including fructose, sucrose, and glucose) in sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) will have differential effects on fatty acid synthesis and degradation in healthy young men? Now that I'd probably even have Dr. Lustig attention, let's first take a look at what exactly Michel Hochuli an...
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Sucralose is for Diabetics Not, Scientists say. But How Significant is the Cholesterol Increase They Observed?

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This way of consuming Splenda is quite certainly going to increase your cholesterol levels ;-) I guess, all of you will still remember the show Carl and I did on the "Pro-Insulinogenic Effects of Artificial Sweeteners" ( read more ), right? The one where I tried to point out that even if there was a meager change in the insulin response, this would only be a problem if there was any truth to  narrow-minded condemnation of insulin as the deadly obesity hormone, so that, in the end, the whole hoopla turned out to be way less daunting than some scare-mongers would have it. Yet while something deep inside of me is telling me that the latter is probably going to be the same with the recently published study that's at the focus of today's SuppVersity article, cannot refute that the data from that very rodent study that was published in the Journal of Nutrition Sciences does clearly suggest that... ...sucralose increases cholesterols! That certainly doesn't so...
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Study on Krill Powder Suggests: There is More to Seafood Than Fat - Can Krill Give You What Fish Oil Can't? Plus: Krill Protein's EAA Content More Than an Able Match to Whey

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If you listened to the SuppVersity Science News Round Up on Super Human Radio , yesterday , you may remember that the color of food can tell you something about it's antioxidant activity... well, guess what: It's the lipid-soluble pigment and potent antioxidant astaxanthin that gives krill its "healthy" orange-red color. In a way this post could be regarded as a follow-up on yesterday's news about the profound weight-loss effects of high dose EPA (and to a lesser degree) DHA supplementation. After all, parts of the supplement industry have been working hard on establishing krill oil as a more efficient alternative for regular fish oil (see " Neptune Krill Oil, the New or Better Fish Oil? "). And in a way, the Rossmeisel study, I had in the news back in June 2012, would support this claim, since one of the proven benefits of krill oil actually is that it contains way more of the phospholipid variety of the long-chain omega-3 fatty acids that is mo...
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Fat Content Per Energy Drink 0g, Body Fat Gain Per Energy Drink 18g! Human Trial Confirms: +1kg of Body Fat in 4 Weeks From Less than 2x Energy Drinks per Day!

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Image 1 (NYC Dept. of Health & Mental Hygiene): The words on this poster from a 2009 campaign in the NY subway must be taken literally! There is a reason for me to always begin my "dietary advice" with the statement "there is NO WAY that you ever again drink any soft, energy drinks or fruit juices on a daily basis". And though I would not have needed a study to confirm skipping, lemonade, coke & co is one of the simplest, for many people yet not easiest steps to a healthier and leaner physique, I must admit that I was pretty surprised how rapid both your health and body composition deteriorate, once you reintroduce this junk into your diet. +1kg of pure body fat in 4 weeks, that was the amount of weight the 11 healthy men and women in a recently published study by scientists from the UK, Italy and the US gained within just 4 weeks in the course of which they drank on average two more or less tasty Lucozade Energy drinks per day (Sartor. 2012). Fat co...
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High Dose Caffeine + Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease = 355% Increased Very Low Density Lipoprotein (VLDL)

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Image 1: Already in "pill form" - Coffee beans Caffeine, the world's #1 drug certainly is a remarkable substance. It does not only have myriads of well-established physiological effects, already, but it seems that - if you wanted to - you could identify another one everyday. It is thus not really surprising that a recently published study by Abd El-Ghany, M.A., Rasha, M. Nagib and Hagar, M. El-Saiyed from the Mansoura University in Egypt casts yet another, in this case, however, pretty scary light on the lifeblood of the average Starbucks junkie ( El-Ghany. 2012 ). Caffeine prevents weight gain - whohooo! Or not? The scientists set out to investigate the differential effects the oral administration of 10mg/day of pure caffeine, or dose-equivalents from coffee, (black) tea, cacao and Nescafe ( note : this is my understanding of the somewhat sloppy English translation of the methods) would have on the lipid levels of rats who had been pretreated with a lard-based h...
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DHEA Inhibits Fat Gain More Effectively Than Testosterone. Both Work by Reducing PPAR-γ and Thusly Lipid Storage

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Image 1: This is the "Fountain of Youth" in Karlsruhe, Germany. I have never been there, but I guess I should take the next train and check whether water contains 0.4% or 0.8% DHEA ;-) Outside of the medical practices of some anti-aging docs nobody appears to care about the "good old" dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), these days. As a diligent student of the SuppVersity, you are yet well aware of the reviving effects DHEA has on the liver (cf. August, 26, 2011 ), pancreas & insulin sensitivity (cf. May, 15, 2011 ) and adipocyte metabolism (cf. April, 8, 2011 ) in "older" people or everyone with suboptimal DHEA levels. You will also be aware that the adrenal steroid hormone which can be converted to testosterone (and thusly DHT or estrogen) at the target tissue exerted pretty astonishing effects on body composition in a handful of initial (very) high-dose trials. Follow up studies in the late 1990s were yet mostly unable to reproduce these encouraging...
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Selenium, the Fertility Mineral!? Organic and Inorganic Selenium Ameliorate Reductions in Testosterone, Testicular Damage and Abnormalities in Sperm Quality in Obese Mice

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Image 1: With enough selenium in vivo, "in vitro" (-fertilization) may not be necessary. If you have not heard about it in one of my previous blogposts , you may probably heard about the antioxidant, pro-fertility effects of selenium in the context of Tim Ferris' "selenium experiment" in the 4-Hour-Body . Ferris claimed that by just eating a handful of Brazil nuts (544µg selenium per ounce) every day shot his testosterone levels and libido through the roof. Now, what most people probably overheard, though, was that Ferris was selenium deficient to begin with. Just as every bodybuilder's holy grail, zinc, selenium won't help up your testosterone or fertility if you have already plenty of the potentially toxic trace mineral in your diet. In view of its central role in the antioxidant defense system of our bodies , it is however likely that selenium requirements increase, whenever our bodies are exposed to increasing amounts of oxidative stress. Wh...
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