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Leafy Green Veggies Set Omega-6 on Fire? Plus: Proprietary but Worth Mentioning Milk Protein Contrate for Knee Pain

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Not new, but still novel: "Proprietary Milk Protein Concentrate" about to make a come(back) in your joint supplements? And what are the implications of the counter-intuitive effects of leafy greens in a(n unhealthy) diet? Does this mean you have to stay away from collard greens (CG), purslane (PL), or orange flesh sweet potato greens (SPG) and other putative health foods? If you follow @SuppVersity on Facebook, you will know the peer-reviewed open access journal " Nutrients " - they publish a lot of interesting papers every month and some even make it from the short news on Facebook to an actual full-length article on the SuppVersity - two studies did just that, today: A study by Johnson et al. with the potential to (eventually unwarrantedly) spoil your appetite for leafy greens and an RCT by Ziegenfuss et al. you should know if you want to stay on top of the research on "joint supplements"... joint supplements that seem to work even for people with m...
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Veggies Rule: As an Adjunct to Your Starches Leafy Greens Reduce Postprandial Glycemia + Insulin and Boost the Production of the Anti-Obesogenic Satiety Hormone GLP-1

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Don't worry, you don't have to eat veggies only for the rest of your life, but you should never eat a meal without them! I've been writing about the "add fat to your carbs to ameliorate the obesogenic insulin response" bullsh*t before (see "True or False? Adding Fat to A Carby Meal Lowers Insulin Response. Muscle Hypertrophy Impairs Oxygen Diffusion. Reducing Carb Intake Improve Muscular Insulin Sensitivity" | read more ). What I have not been writing about before are better alternatives. Alternatives such as a huge bowl of veggies. A bowl like the one the participants in a recent study from the Graduate School of Human Sciences and Design at the Japan Women’s University in Tokyo consumed as an adjunct to a standardized white rice meal. Add veggies to your rice! Basically, the scientists tested four different conditions. In condition (S), the participants consumed only the staple food (boiled white rice weighing 200 g heated in a microwave oven...
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Higher Calcium Intake Greater Fatty Acid Oxidation!? True: Chronic & Acute Effect Size Comparable to Caffeine

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Image 1: When people hear they should increase their calcium intake, they either think of pills and tablets or milk and dairy in general. The fact that all greens, nuts and many seeds contain tons of calcium, as well, is commonly overlooked (for more high calcium foods see table 1, below). "Increase your calcium intake, if you want to lose body fat!" I honestly don't even remember, when I've heard this statement for the first time, but it was way before I started questioning general recommendations on nutrition. Meanwhile, my blind faith in dietary recommendations and expert advice has faded, yet the general advice to "increase your calcium intake" is still so ubiquitous that searching for it on Google returns 373.000 results within 0.24 seconds, searching for the same token yet with "magnesium" instead of calcium does only yield 11,900 results and even "increase your omega-3 intake" will deliver only a meager 17,500 results (4.6% of...
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