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Women Have a Hard(er) Time Losing Body Fat W/ Exercise 'cause it Increases Their Appetite More Than Men's, Right?

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Is she going to binge after this body weight squat workout? Nah, don't worry... I've repeatedly written about studies that show that the Taubs'ian notion that "exercise is useless because it just makes you hungry" is bullsh*t. It is indeed useless to work out to burn calories, it is yet never useless to work out - even if fat loss, not health or longevity is your goal. What you should be aware of, though, is that there is a gender bias in the selecting of subjects in health sciences; and since the average subject in nutrition and exercise sciences is male and studies that have enough male and female subjects to identify relevant sex differences are rare, we don't really know if everything that has been "scientifically proven" can also be considered "scientifically proven" for female dieters and/or trainees. Learn more about the (often ;-) small but significant difference at the SuppVersity 1g PRO per 2g CHO + Circuit T. for Wome...
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Now Its Official: Propecia Drug Finasteride Kills Male Libido Permanently

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Image 1: Chemical structure of finasteride Other than the FDA some European medicine and health care agencies, such as the Swedish Medical Products Agency and the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency of the United Kingdom already had the guts to declare in their patient informations that " persistence of erectile dysfunction after discontinuation of treatment with Propecia has been reported in post-marketing use. " While this was obviously no reason for the all-mighty FDA to correct or re-evaluate their own documents, two it did intrigue Michael S. Irwig and Swapna Kolukula, two US scientists from Washington and Baltimore, respectively. In their study ( Irwig. 2011 ), the scientists conducted standardized interviews with 71 otherwise healthy men (age: 21–46y), who experienced permanent (>3 months) sexual side effects after temporary use of Finasteride. Their reports are staggering: 94% developed low libido , 92% developed erectile dysfunction , 92% d...
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Afraid of Prostate Cancer? All Your Vitamins Won't Help You!

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Lately, you learned at the SuppVersity that Broccoli has preventive effect against prostate cancer , now a new report by Beilby et.al. ( Belby. 2010 ) reviews the results of previous studies (cf. figure 1) which suggest that folate, beta crotene, vitamin A and vitamin E might be beneficial, as well. Table 1: Baseline characteristics of cases and controls ( Belby. 2010. Table 1 )  The results of their survey is however disillusioning: we report null associations for serum concentrations of β-carotene vitamin A and vitamin E , and subsequent development of prostate cancer. Before you throw away all those pills now, remember that "null association" means that it won't hurt you either ;-)
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Gender Bias: Women Recover Faster From All Out Benching Than Men

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We all know, women are tough, but would you have expected them to recover much faster from an all out bench press session at the gym? Judge et.al. ( Judge. 2010 ) investigated the effect of recovery time on strength performance following a high-intensity bench press workout in 12 athletes (6 males and 6 females) and age-matched college students of both genders (4 males and 4 females). The subjects completed a 3-wk resistance training program involving a bench press exercise, 3 d/wk, to become familiar with the testing procedure. After the completion of the resistance training program, the subjects, on three consecutive weeks, participated in two testing sessions per week, baseline session and recovery session. During the testing sessions, subjects performed five sets of the bench press exercise at 50% to 100% of perceived five repetition maximum (5-RM). After resting 4-, 24-, or 48-h strength measurements were estimates of one repetition maximum (1-RM), using equivalent perce...
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