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Diabetes, Heart Disease, Cancer - Three Good Reasons not to Join the Masses of Dumb "D(e)ad Body" Worshipers

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This is one of the "dad body" models currently displayed on the net who are already beyond "normal-weight" obesity. If you look at the characteristics of the recently hyped "dad body" it's hard to ignore that - from a medical point of view - many of the alleged "mommies" and "daddies" would be classified as a normal weight obese individuals, i.e. someone who's BMI is in the normal zone, but whose body fat percentage exceeds  ≥25. 4 % (for women this would be ≥31.4 %). And while it may be debatable whether a beer-bellied beanpole is sexy or not, there's no question that having a "dad body" is associated with a significantly increased risk of several potentially fatal health problems. Learn more about the effects of your diet on your health at the SuppVersity Only Whey, Not Soy Works for Wheytloss Taste Matters - Role of the Taste Receptors Dairy Protein Satiety - Casein vs. Whey How Much Carb...
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Battling Fat W/ Fat: Subcutaneous Fat Implant Improves Glucose Tolerance and Alleviates Inflammation | Plus: Beware of the Potential Ill Health Effects of Liposuction

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BMI is not a good predictor of metabolic health. One reason it isn't is the differential contribution of visceral and subcutaneous body fat on diabesity an CVD risk. The rodent study at hand demonstrates that quite drastically. It is absolute bogus to deny the contribution of the ever-increasing amount of fat many of us are carrying around day by day to all sorts of potentially fatal diseases. In that, it is yet important to differentiate between the accumulation of intra-abdominal or visceral adipose tissue (VAT) which is associated with type 2 diabetes, dyslipidaemia and hypertension and high amounts of subcutaneous fat which are (comparatively "benign"). As Hocking et al. (2014) highlight in their latest paper, "[t]his relationship [between VAT, type 2 diabetes, dyslipidaemia and hypertension] was originally attributed to increased NEFA [non-esterified fatty acid] flux from VAT into the portal circulation" (Hocking. 2014). HIIT is an excellent way t...
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Pre-Hypertension Ain't Benign: Up to 80% Increased Risk of Cardiovascular Morbidity W/ "High Normal" Blood Pressure and Less! Plus: Foods & Supps to Reduce Your BP

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"High normal" is misleading - there is no such thing as a "high normal" BP "Ah, that's not so bad!" If that's what your doctor said, when he last measured your blood pressure and said "129/84" when he looked at the display of the Sphygmomanometer he must have been living beneath a rock for the past decades. If that sounds familiar, it may be useful to show him a recent meta-analysis of pertinent papers from the early 2000s - a metapa-analysis like the one Yuli Huang and her colleagues from the Department of Cardiology at the Nanfang Hospital at the Southern Medical University in Guangzhou, China, published in BMC Medicine a couple of days ago (Huang. 2014). "Pre-hyper-tensive? Pah that's not me!" If you just thought that, I'd hope that you are right, but honestly... in view of the fact that 3 out of 10 US citizens have a blood pressure in the 129-139 / 84-95 mmHg and against the background that the latter h...
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Leucine & Phenylalanine Enriched YoYo-Diets Ameliorate Fat Gain, Protect Muscle & Maintain T4→T3 Conversion

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Too little leucine & phenylalanine in O.'s diet? Actually it is quite counter-intuitive that the "YoYo"-diets competitive boydbuilders adhere to (diet vs. bulking phase) are capable of producing such amazing physiques. I mean, when Mr. and Mrs. Average "diet down" and "bulk", the result will usually be neither aesthetic nor healthy, right? A recent study from the University of Sao Paulo does now provide some insights into the important role the high amount of essential amino acids (leucine and phenylalanine, to be precise) in the typical bodybuilding diets may play with respect to its moderating effects on the lean muscle loss and body fat gains of Opra-esque ups and downs in body weight. Leucine + Phenylalanine + diet and refeed = ??? I guess the details in the headline to this paragraph are not actually detailed enough to get an idea of what Donato Jr. et al did in their latest rodent study, are they? I see. I will still try to stick t...
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Do Chronic Energy Deficits Make Athletes Fat? The Longer & More Severe You Starve, the Fatter You Are. Irrespective of What the Calories-in-VS-Calories-Out Formula May Say

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This is not an "anti-gymanstics" or "anti-runners" article, this is an anti-ruin-your-life-post for the average female and male gymrat. Maybe you've read about the results Deutz, Bernardot, Martin and Cody published in their 1999 paper on the "Relationship between energy deficits and body composition in elite female gymnasts and runners"... in fact, it may be possible that I already mentioned it in the "Athletes Triad Series" ( read more ), but even if I did, the fact that I get messages like "I eat 1,100kcal/day and still gain, not lose fat" or "my girlfriend eats 900kcal/day and maintains that this is normal ", tells me it does not matter if I mention one or two of the figures the authors compiled in this unfortunately highly "under-cited" paper (only 72 citations are referencing this article) twice. If that makes just one of the victims of their own ambition rethink what he or she is doing, it was well ...
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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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5% Calorie Restriction & Longterm Dieting Make You Fat & Insulin Resistant. Plus: Model Predicts Weight Loss Based On Number of Weight Lost & Diet Pill Use On Previous Diets

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Image 1: "Bikini Body Now!" , headlines like this and the unfair suggestion that by following diet X or taking supplement Y you would make it onto the cover of a magazine like that are part of the problem why diets fail, people get discouraged and caught in the diet trap. The issue of yoyo dieting and the existence and non-existence of a body weight or body fat set-point has been an issue in more than a handful of SuppVersity posts, already ( click here to read more). None of the studies I cited (and not even one of those I have read) did yet provide a conclusive and experimentally verifiable answer to the question whether or not there is such a thing as a "set point" and how or even if dieting influences the latter. What common "wisdom" would suggest, though, is that dieting will ruin your metabolism, so that both the post-dieting weight rebound, as well as future problems with losing weight would be programmed. So the question is: Can you diet...
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