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Body Fat Modulation with Corn Oil & L-Carnitine: What You Can Learn From Your Schnitzel

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Its quite remarkable that, primates aside, swine are among the best models of human metabolism . So, even if you do not feel piggy at all, the fact that pigs just as humans are omnivores, makes them a much better model for metabolic disease than rodents. It is thus not too unrealistic to assume that we can learn something about ourselves from the results of a very recent study published in the Journal of Animal Science ( Apple. 2011 ). Figure 1: American Pork Cuts; quality is determined by corn-oil and carnitine intake of the swine. What lessons can you learn from our pink relatives? Investigating the effects of l -carnitine supplementation on the quality characteristics of fresh pork bellies from pigs fed three levels of corn oil, J.K. Apple and his co-workers observed a linear trend towards decreased belly-firmness with increasing amounts of corn oil (0, 2 or 4%) in the diet. If you look at the average American, his/he...
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Got a Pot Belly? Stubborn Belly Fat? Unhandy Love Handles? Massage Them Away!

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"Massage away your pot belly!" Sounds hillarious, doesn't it. Well, a small study ( Rahimi. 2011 ) coming from scientists from the University of Mashhad in Iran suggests that massaging your love handles could actually facilitate localized fatloss. In their study, Rahimi and Javahery put 16 healthy - I quote - "non-sportsperson male students"  ;-), aged 20-27y on a 5x a week massage regimen (15-20 min) that had, if not outstanding, then at least statistically significant results: The results of correlated t test show that the mean values of skin fold fat of the stomach are of the participants before and after the massage program was 36.81 and 36.12 respectively, which shows a significant decrease after 30 sessions of massage (p=0.036). - 2% skin fold: You are not impressed? Well, me neither. Although the increased blood flow to the subcutaneous fat pads may, as the scientists speculate, have a beneficial effect on local fat mobilization, I would suggest you be...
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Pot Belly and High Triglycerides Indicative of Low LDL & HDL Particle Size

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A recent study by scientists from the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota ( Irving. 2011 ) found that the most reliable indicators of LDL & HDL particle size in 84 healthy non-diabetic men and women were a huge amount of trunk fat and high triglyceride levels. [...] the accumulation of atherogenic lipoprotein particles (e.g. small, dense, low-density lipoprotein particles and small, high-density lipoprotein particles) was associated with low levels of insulin sensitivity, cardiorespiratory fitness, and higher levels of adiposity. However, multivariate forward-stepwise regression revealed that triglycerides, followed by truncal fat mass, were the strongest predictors of the lipoprotein particle size and concentration data. These results are of particular interest to those who cannot afford having a comprehensive lipid panel done. Since the standard tests often do not provide any information about the size of the cholesterol particles, looking and triglycerides and truncal fat may be a...
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