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Diet Deoptimization with Rice Protein: Less Weight Gain, Lower Cholesterol and Fatty Acid Synthesis - So What?

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Image 1: Rice protein power - I'd bet a pouch of casein protein that this Chinese "body builder" must have eaten plenty of rice protein. I mean, check out how ripped he is! Update: Garymar informed me that this is a Japanese comedian called Yoshiaki Yamane - sorry, my mistake ;-) The "real" supplement news have been pretty slow as of late - there have not been any, to be precise. Unless you are interested in yet another study on an exotic African or Asian root or herb and its "antioxidative activity" in the petri-dish, you would probably have been as bored as I was by the latest articles in respective journals. And if Stephen Watt had not asked my opinion on a study my colleagues over at ergo-log had in the news, as of late, I would probably have ignored a "rodents on rice protein" study from the Department of Food Science at the School of Food Science and Engineering of the Harbin Institute of Technology in Harbin, China ( Yang. 20...
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Three Servings of Grapefruit /Day Have No Effect on Weight Loss, But Increase Triglycerides and Make a Potentially Deadly Cocktail With A Whole Host of Prescription Meds!

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Image 1: Grapefruit does not help with weight loss and, as it turns out, is not even healthy. On the contrary, in conjunction with your favorite statin it is even potentially deadly. Do you remember the "grapefruit diet" ( WebMD )? No? Well, then you are probably male and have always been satisfied with your weight. Otherwise, you would probably have heard how a "magical ingredient" in the subtropical citrus fruit is going kill all those unaesthetic adypocytes, which have made themselves at home on your hips and buttocks, in no time... What do you say? Bullsh*t? Well, I guess you have been reading to much of my stuff already, after all this purported short-cut to six-pack abs is also known as the Hollywood Diet and that alone will have people fall for it by the dozen... I mean, if Brooke Shields and Kylie Minogue got in shape with it, it must be working, right? The myth and the truth about grapefruits I know that you would never be so stupid to start eatin...
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Eat Whole Eggs All Day and Throw Your Statins Away? 375x Increased Dietary Cholesterol Intake From Eggs Reduces Visceral Fat & Promotes Healthy Cholesterol Metabolism

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Image 1: You better make sure you don't miss out on these delicious heart- and brain-healthy cholesterol bombs. Most of you will probably be familiar with the good old saying " An apple a day, keeps the doctor away! ", right? And if you are an otherwise healthy individual the micronutrients from the apple will probably really help you maintain this status. But what if the doctor was already there to put you on the healthy low fat diet, the negative health consequences of which I have addressed in yesterday's blogpost ? In that case, whole eggs probably provide a more promising escape route from that low-fat, high-carb trap - at least this is what the the results of a soon to be published study from the Huazhong Agricultural University in Wuhan, China would suggest ( Yang. 2012 ). Surprising(?) -9% belly-fat reduction on whole egg diet In their 60 to 90 day experiment, the Chinese researchers put a group of 8-week old Sprague-Dawley rats (n=18 for each group...
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Brown Algae Extract Reduces Body Fat Without Dieting or Exercise. Ecklonia Cava Polyphenols Help Shed Weight Even in The Presence of a Slight Caloric Surplus.

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Image 1: If that were a peace of meat, I'd say its roadkill, in the case of these Ecklonia  cava algae the term "floatsam" would probably be more  fitting, though (photo by Nikemoto2511) With obesity being among, if not the major promoter of all modern diseases, researchers around the world are constantly trying to find magic bullet against, a condition of which hardly anyone argues that it could not be prevented in 99.9% of the cases by diet and lifestyle changes, or even better, leading an active and healthy life from early childhood to old age, alone. Be that as it may, if the horse has already bolted, the help of a side effect free dietary supplement, to promote and accelerate the results of consistent life style interventions , would unquestionably come handy. In a recently published study ( Shin. 2011 ) a polyphenol extract from Ecklonia cava, a brown algae that has long been used in traditional foodstuff and f...
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Overweight Boys More at Risk of Obesity Related Health Problems than Girls

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In a recent study from Egypt, Hassan et.al. took anthropometric measures of adiposity from 150 pupils between the ages of 7 to 18. Along with data on body composition and serum total lipids profiles the scientists intended to find correlation between obesity and adverse health effects at younger age. The results are interesting in that no correlation was found between lipid profile and body composition in the adolescent group (12-18 years). On the other hand, in the younger children , ... For young age [7-11 years], triglycerides and HDL-C are correlated to most of the body composition and anthropometric parameters in boys and not in girls . The scientists speculate on whether the different fat distribution pattern in young boys (centrally dominant) could be one of the underlying reasons for this observation. Be that as it may, I consider this another good reason to encourage boys (and girls, alike) to act out their natural desire to move and exercise before they  become PlaySt...
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Neptune Krill Oil Effective for Athletes, as well

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As a reader of the SuppVersity, you already know about the positive effects of Krill Oil on blood lipids and glucose homeostasis. A very recent investigation into its effect in trained athletes (rowers) revealed significant effects on exercise recovery at only 1g/day. The polish scientists ( Scarpansca. 2010 ) report: Exercise significantly increased values of SOD, TNF-α and TBARS in both groups, but recovery levels of TBARS were significantly lower in athletes receiving Krill oil compared with the control group. Figure 1: Training schedule in the week preceding blood sample collection before, and after the supplementation period; volume in minutes per day ( Scarpansca. 2010 ) Interestingly, supplementation had no effect on antioxidant enzymes, TNF-α and serum lipid profiles . So, there appear to be various reasons for very different parts of the public to consume, or rather supplement, with Krill Oil : Of yet, we know it does improve blood lipids for the ordinary couch potato o...
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