Women Can't Go Without Fat, Men Not Without Glucose!? Plus: Could Fat & Glucose Be Created Equal(ly Important)?
Image 1: Are we missing the cacao (=fat) for the chocolate? Study suggests that women do better without glucose than men (img. stern.de) Ladies, I know I am neglecting you. Testosterone here, bodybuilding there and rarely something about your issues. In the end, it is not fundamentally different with today's news, but the study we are going to look at today is at least food (all pun intended) for thought for both sexes. In fact, Mallory , one of the few women who has not yet been put off by "half naked bodydbuilding types" (if you don't know what I am hinting at, check out the "Biggest Winner" blogpost ) and all the hoopla around the "muscle building effects of testosterone", reminded me that I had stashed away a study on the sex-specific reaction to glucose- and lipid-deprivation by scientists from the University of Cincinatti a few weeks ago for "future reference" - a study with quite remarkable results ( Sandoval. 2012 ). ...