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True or False? Caffeine is The Main Main Stroke Protectant in Tea & Coffee. High MCT Diets Are the Key to Longterm Fat Loss. Soybean Oil Makes You Fat not Heavy.

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Adelfo Cerame Jr. after winning his weight class, the overall and the pro-card ( leave him a message ). The first "True or False?" today, does not really pertain to diet and nutrition science, but it is still highly relevant for the SuppVersity: Adelfo Cerame Jr. did eventually win his well deserved pro-card at the Wheelchair Nationals in Florida, yesterday. - True! Ok, I have to admit that this may have been too easy with the picture of Adelfo holding the trophies for his weight class and the overall in his hands on the right, but it was the best way to include this important news "seamlessly" *rofl* into today's SuppVersity article. You want some more difficult stuff? Well, let's see what you know about tea, coffee, MCTs and heated soy bean oil, then. Caffeine (probably) is the main stroke protectant in coffee and tea True. As a recent study from the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria in Brazil clearly indicates, the "bad" caffe...
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Long Chain Triglyceride Feeding Reduces Exercise Performance by >55% - Cambridge Scientists Find Reduced Mitochondrial Efficiacy in Rat Hearts.

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Image 1: The ketogenic diet is also referred to as the long chain triglyceride diet by some dieticians (image from fingercandymedia.com) In view of the current low-carb hype, people tend to forget that, after all, carbohydrate consumption has been shown time and again to improve the performance of endurance athletes. And despite the existence of a few studies about "fat adaption" which report equal or even improved endurance performance in athletes on low carb diets, previous findings of Murray and his colleagues from the Department of Physiology, at the University of Cambridge clearly showed detrimental effects of short term high fat feeding (9 days) on the exercise capacity of rats. These results are corroborated by findings of Holloway et al. ( Holloway. 2011 ) who found cardiac high-energy phosphate metabolism and cognitive function to be impaired in healthy human subjects on a high-fat diet. Now, it is quite obvious that these findings stand in contrast to all the...
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