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Image 1: Must be the red meat between those healthy grain based burger buns that makes this rodent fat, right? What? Yeah... of course epidemiologists count this as a "red meat meal" - it has "red meat" in it... wait, ah yeah: More likely pink slime, with some totally benign ammonia in it, you are right ;-) Those of you who have been around here at the SuppVersity for some time, may have remembered the " Additional(!) 200g of Pork a Day Build Lean Mass, Improve Blood Lipids & Glucose Levels " from September 2011, when a couple of weeks ago yet another "anti-meat study" hit mainstream media news. You will probably have read enough of the certainly accurate, but in a way pointless criticism of the study, elsewhere in the bloggosphere, so that I decided not to repeat the argumentation, which basically discards the value of all epidemiological data (as long as it is not interpreted in accordance with the respective blogger ;-)... now, not a...

Image 1: Even if you align them like that, it is at least debatable whether capped fish oil is much more natural than the structurally modified 16 -carbon saturated fatty acid tetradecylthioacetic acid (TTA). As far as their effects on weight loss are concerned, the latter is certainly more potent,... the debate on the side-effects of both is yet still far from being settled. Despite the mainstream hoopla around the former... At least for those of you who have been around the supplement world for some time, the acronym TTA, which stands for tetradecylthioacetic acid , a structurally modified 16 -carbon saturated fatty acid (SFA), which has been shown to increase fatty acid oxidation and reduce triglyceride levels via interactions with purportedly all PPAR-receptors, should ring a bell. For the rest, it will yet probably be news that, back in the early 2000s, TTA was all the rave as the new star among OTC-fat burners. And in fact, the weight loss people experienced on respective pr...

Image 1: SAD or just mad? It does in fact look like you better stick to Royal TS , French fries & co instead of following a low fat diet according to the guidelines of the National Cholesterol Education Program if you care about your heart health. In view of the fact that millions of lives depend on it (literally, not just figuratively!) it is actually quite surprising, some would probably say "scandalous" that the experimental evidence (and I am talking about controlled experiments on real , healthy human beings, not about epidemiological and thusly statistical) for the purported beneficial effects of a non-calorically restricted "healthy low fat diet" in the absence of additional exercise interventions is... scarce, to say the least. I was thusly positively surprised, when I hit on a study from a group of researchers from the Institute of Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods at the Laval University and the Lipid Research Center at the CHUL Research Cent...