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Low Fat Toddler, High Fat Adult?! Intra-Workout Carbs More 'Anabolic' Than Protein!? Iron Prevents Gastric Cancer & Insulin Resistance?! Plus: A Sixpack of Kettlebell Studies

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If you want to know exactly how your neighbors or rather your county did, check out the CDC's brand new County Data Interactive Atlas (may take some time to load), select your state and click on your county. Unfortunately, it's not exactly likely that you will be pleasantly surprised after all, places with rates below 6.5% (white on the map) have become rare, while those with 11.2% or more are becoming the norm. "100%" - In words: One hundred percent, that's the SuppVersity figure of the week and at the same time the rate at which the prevalence of diagnosed diabetes in 14 of the US states grew faster in the years between 1995 and 2000 than previous estimates had predicted. The CDC has published this figure along with more information and the link to their brand new County Data Interactive Atlas in their weekly report on November 15, 2012. The Top 5 offenders on the list that's attached to the report are (1) Oklahoma (226 percent), (2) Kentucky (158 p...

Ironclad Liver Hampers Insulin Sensitivity: Association Between Hepatic Iron Load and Insulin Resistance Discovered

"Insulin resistance", "insulin sensitivity", etc. Type in these key words and find 4.000.000 +1 results on Google. I want to focus on the +1 here and briefly report the results of a study ( Haap. 2011 ) coming from the University of Thübingen, Germany. Via magnetic resonance gradient echo imaging technique Michael Haap and his colleges assessed the iron load in the livers of of  113 healthy nondiabetic subjects [69 females, 44 males; age 47 ± 1 yr; body mass index (BMI) = 28.9 ± 0.5 kg/m2], who were "at increased risk for type 2 diabetes" . Various statistical analysis of their data revealed that: [Hepatic iron levels] adjusted for age negatively associated with serum ferritin levels (P < 0.0001) and positively associated with IS [insulin resistance] (P = 0.009). In addition, T2* values [indicator of hepatic iron load] associated with LF [liver fat] (P = 0.008) but not with BMI (P = 0.6). In a multivariate model, IS adjusted for gender, age, and BM...
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