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Carbs Before Workout Won't Lock Your Ab Fat in its Stores | Plus: Wired for Laziness, Standing for Your Health and 'Cardio' Reversibly Promotes Microbial Diversity in Guts

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Spiking insulin w/ high GI carbs before a workout doesn't blunt the release of fat from the stores covering your abs. Whenever I hit on journals like the latest issue of Medicine in Sports Science , a publication by the American College of Sports Medicine . I contemplate using them as a resource for an installment of the short news - albeit only if more than one of the studies in said journals are actually worth talking about. For the November issue of Medicine in Sports Science , this was the case for four studies. First and foremost, probably Baur's experimental counterevidence to the hypothesis that the carbohydrate-induced surge in insulin would 'seal' your subcutaneous body fat stores. It may not be necessary to attack your ab-fat, but fasting does have a handful of benefits: Monthly 5-Day Fast Works "Lean Gains" Fast Works Habits Determine Effects of Fasting Protein Modified Fast 4 Health IF + Resistance Training = WIN ADF Bea...
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Endurance Athletes May Benefit From High-GI Meals Before Competition: 18% Increased Endurance During Time Trial

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Hillariously sweet, super cheap, and surprisingly effective: glucose! While most of you will probably already have discarded the notion that you can only lose weight if you eat a diet with an extremely low GI (on a side note: Taubes' own study falsified his "insulin theory of obesity", recently ), the notion that the ingestion of high glycemic index foods before exercise could ruin your performance, because your glucose levels, after an initial spike, will plummet and you will crash, still looms large. With that being said, athletes around the world have, somewhat paradoxically, stuck to complex carbs before competition only to then fuel their performance with extremely sugary intraworkout bars, gels and drinks. Are you a workout junkie? Try bicarbonate or other pH-buffers Caffeine & Bicarb = Perfect Match Build Bigger Legs W/ Bicarbonate HIIT it Hard W/ NaCHO3 Creatine + BA = Perfect Match Bicarb Buffers Creatine Instant 14% HIIT Boost W...
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Is Low Blood Sugar Obesogenic? Hypoglycemic Episodes Characteristic of Weight Loss Plateaus & Weight Regain - What to Do? Diet, Sleep, Exercise & Mental Work Matter

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Tip: Restore your muscle and liver glycogen after workouts and before long fasts to ensure a smooth transition from glucose to fat utilization. In view of the diabetes pandemic it sounds stupid, when J-P Chaput and A Tremblay write that low blood sugar levels could contribute to the ever-increasing obesity rates in the US and other Western countries. Their reasoning, however, is sound: An increase in blood glucose concentrations results in increased feelings of satiety whereas a drop in blood glucose concentrations has the opposite effect. Chronically low levels of glucose, as well as the glucose excursions we see in the few (still) healthy people after shoveling down packages of twinkies and dingdongs, would thus precipitate overeating and eventually obesity and diabetes. Use alternatives to sugar sweetened beverages if you want to stabilize your blood glucose! Unsatiating Truth About Sweeteners? Will Artificial Sweeteners Spike Insulin? Sweeteners & the Gu...
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Macro Ratios & Glucose Management: Eating Lower GI Carbs and Higher Protein Alone is Less Effective in Blood Sugar Normalization Than You May Have Thought

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Macronutrient ratios matters, but food quality does, too. And so do exercise, laziness, sleep, .... the list is endless, so can we be surprised that modulating GI and protein is not helping much? We all "know" that going low(er) carb is good for your blood glucose management, right? Nice! So, we probably don't need studies like the Marleen A. van Baak's conducted only recently, right? I mean, carbs are bad! So why would we even be interested to hear how much the subjects of the Diogenes Study lost on one of four different diets with varying protein content and glycemic index? Or who would want to know what the subjects' 24-h glucose profiles on one out of four diets differing in carbohydrate content by 10 energy % and glycemic index by 20 units during three days. No one would like to know that, right!? In view of the fact that you're still there, I suppose that I was wrong and you are interested in the effects of different marconutrient ratios and type...
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True or False: Xanthan Will Reduce The Glycemic Index of Your Meals, Increase Satiety and Have an Overall Beneficial Effects on Your Metabolic Health (Glucose, Lipids, Waist, ...)

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Can xanthan reduce the glycemic response to "sweet treats" like this? Have you ever heard of xanthan? Yep that's E-number E415. What? If it has an E-Number it can't be good? Well, what about vitamin C, then? That's E-Number E300. Does this make it "bad" for you? If so, I'd suggest you skip today's SuppVersity article and avoid xanthan out of principle. Otherwise, I would like to offer you to join me for another "True or False" Session ( find more of these | RSS-compatible browser or plugin for Chrome like SlickRSS needed) at the end of which we will know whether the statement "Xanthan Will Reduce Your Meals Glycemic Index, Increase Satiety and Have Overall Beneficial Effect on Your Metabolic Health" is true, or false. You can find more True or False articles at the SuppVersity Pasta "Al Dente" = Anti-Diabetic Vinegar & Gums for Weight Loss Teflon Pans Will Kill You! Yohimbine Burns Stubbor...
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