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Interaction of Fat Cell Size, Protein Intake & Co. W/ Fat Gain + Insulin Res. in Overfed Men + Women in Metabolic Ward

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That's rather the low protein variety of overfeeding... but wait, was the high protein diet even "high" in protein? Well high enough to affect liver fat, for sure. You will probably remember José Antonio's high protein overfeeding study series ( learn more ) from the articles here and on the SuppVersity  Facebook page . The results were quite impressive, but the number of controlled covariates were small and the dietary control was limited to food logs. In a more recent study, George A. Bray and colleagues from the Pennington Biomedical Research Center of the Louisiana State University System , the  George Mason University , and the FL Hospital & Sanford-Burnham Prebys Discovery Research Institute  (Bray. 2016) determined the effect of overfeeding diets with 5%, 15% or 25% energy from protein on glycemia + body fat distribution in healthy men and women with add. covariates and  in a metabolic ward. Yes, the high protein intake clogged the liver during o...
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Fat-Blocker Effect of Tea Catechins Confirmed (?) in Man - Sign. Abdominal Fat Loss (5-8%) in 12 Weeks W/Out Diet

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Tea catechins (which can also be found in black and jasmin tea | see Figure 3 ) can help you keep particularly unhealthy abdominal fat (Després. 2012) at bay. It is one thing to have in-vitro and rodent data that green tea can inhibit the digestion of dietary fat (reported previously in the SuppVersity Facebook News ); it is another thing, however, to have a human study like the one Makoto Kobayashi and colleagues are about to publish in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Food & Function  that shows that the "[i]ngestion of a green tea beverage enriched with catechins with a galloyl moiety (THEA-FLAN 90S) during a high-fat meal reduces body fat in moderately obese adults" (Kobayashi. 2015). Ok, the abdominal fat loss does not, as the previous quote from the conclusion appears to suggest, occur instantly right after you've consumed your first tea w/ a single meal. You can learn more about green tea at the SuppVersity GT Boosts Res- ting & Ex. Indu- ...
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More Aerobics, More Subcutaneous, Yet not More Visceral Fat Loss - Despite or Because of Higher Energy Intakes?

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Visible abs require low subcutaneous, not visceral fat levels: Why? Well, despite being located at the midsection, the nasty fat covering your abs is subcutaneous.   I should probably call today's SuppVersity article a "classic"; not because it was published in this form before, but rather because it is based on a paper that has been accepted for publication back in 1997. In view of the fact that the question its authors sought to answer is as topical today as it was in the late 1990s, though, I thought it may be worth writing a brief article about Takahashi Abe's quest for relationship between training frequency and subcutaneous and visceral fat loss in women (Abe. 1997). As Abe et al. point out, their study was "designed to investigate the effect of varying frequencies of aerobic exercise training and caloric restriction on [visceral fat mass] and [subc. fat mass]" (Abe. 1997). In that, the scientists speculated that due to the increased energy expen...
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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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30 Min of Exercise Can Avoid Costly & Unhealthy Gestational Diabetes. Carbohydrate Oxydation Determines Appetite After Workouts. Using a Measuring Tape to Judge Visceral Fat Mass. Update: Vitamin D, Age & Obesity.

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85 sessions (general fitness class, three times/week, 55-60 min/session from weeks 8-10 to weeks 38-39 of pregnancy are nothing but healthy for mother + child (Barakat. 2013) Obese mothers with gestational diabetes are more than just a financial burden. That's what the SuppVersity Figures of the Week clearly indicate. According to a recently published paper from the National University of Ireland Galway woman who develop gestational diabetes during pregnancy (mostly due to pre-existing extra fat -pounds; not BMI), produce 34% higher health-care costs (Gillespie. 2013). Just as the 75% increase in the necessity to have the kids being delivered by cesarean section , this would still be tolerable, though, if their poor offspring did not also have a increased risk of being born with pathological ventricular hypertrophy (Ullmo. 2007) and a 214% higher likelihood of having to be admitted to the neonatal unit , which, in turn, is associated with "increased and/or aberrant ad...
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What's Worse: YoYo-Dieting or Constant Gluttony? What Happens During Weight Cycling? And Why Does Every Diet Make You Fatter? Lots of Questions, a Couple of Answers

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Image 1: To eat or to diet, what's worse? Despite the fact that the magazines are still full of "X pounds in Y weeks" diets , more and more people begin to realize that "diet hopping" and even "dieting" in the conventional sense, i.e. following a special, usually very strict and non-sustainable nutritional regimen for a very short amount of time, are futile. But can calling a halt before you blow up like a balloon from time to time actually be worse than letting yourself go all-day, everyday? According to the results of an experiment that has been conducted at the Institute of Biology of the State University of Rio de Janeiro , the results of which have just been published in the open access journal PLoSOne , the answer to this question must be: YES, it can! And that may be true, even when you are not starving yourself! Even "healthy" weight cycling turns out to be profoundly unhealthy! Now, the unfortunate news first: We are, as ...
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