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Remember: If anything fructose from beverages (including juices), yet not fructose from whole fruit is a problem. In fact eating whole fruits will decrease your blood lipids and high sensitivity C reactive protein (hs-CRP) inflammation markers. Fructose is bad for you, right? Right. According to the latest study from the University of Newcastle , the consumption of only one drink containing containing 50 g of either fructose or glucose or sucrose dissolved in water will have detrimental effects on the #1 indicator of whole body inflammation, which is high sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP). Much to the researchers surprise, though, the same amount of fructose had significant beneficial effects on the plasma lipid levels of the healthy male and female adults (n = 14) between the ages of 18-60 years who were recruited by advertisement and underwent study procedures at the Nutraceuticals Research Group Clinic rooms at the University of Newcastle in Australia. Learn more a...

Artificial sweeteners - Could they really be less toxic and obesogenic than half of the blogosphere has it? The study at hand suggests so, but its significance is limited.. The recently posted SuppVersity Classic "Sweet, But Not Innocent!? The Fattening Effects of the Non - Nutritive Sweeteners Erythritol & Aspartame Are On Par With Equally Sweet Sugar Water" ( read more ) has gotten quite some attention on Facebook, against that background I suppose that today's SuppVersity article will, once more inflame passions. The use of artificial sweeteners as dieting aids is after all highly controversial within the health and fitness community. If you've read my previous reviews of the corresponding papers, you will yet be aware that there is not a single human study to confirm that any of the "classic" artificial sweeteners (sucralose, aspartame & co) would have negative effects on the loss of body and fat mass during dietary restriction - an still ...

I bet both Flex Wheeler (left) as well as Serge Nubret (right) still knew what choline is. Something you probably cannot say of many of today's gymrats. In view of the fact that the brief "Oldie but Goldie" post on the efficiency of a stack of carnitine, choline and caffeine as a weight loss adjuvant on the SuppVersity Facebook Wall caught so much attention, I thought that especially those of you who have not yet "liked" the SuppVersity on Facebook and have thus missed this brief reminder of these "classic" fat loss helpers would appreciate if I devote a whole post to this issue as well as another "Oldie but Goldie", I came across recently: The anti-plateau effects of succrose (plain sugar) and phosphates during phases of (very) intense dieting. ECA was yesterday and so was CCC ;-)   Let's start with the CCC stack, though. In the year 2000, Hongu et al. published a paper describing a rodent experiment in which they were able to...

Unbelievable: The results of the latest study from the University of Western Sidney appear to suggest that you could keep your insulin levels at bay, if you mixed your sugary intra-workout supplement with aspartame-laden diet coke instead of water! The mechanism that's behind this phenomenon does yet still have to be elucidated. You may be surprised to see a long headline, a long post and a couple of bullet points: "Looks like On Short Notice , reads like On Short Notice , but is not published on Saturday? What's that?" The answer to this question is easy. Lot's of interesting stuff I have come across as of late! And while some of them, like the study on the marginal utility of higher protein intakes on a diet would actually deserve their own post, I decided to give you the "long(er) version of a short notice" in order not to miss any of them... and yes, this means there is going to be more than today's news on the unexpected anti-insulinogenic...

Image 1: No, just a few grams of d-psicose won't turn these into a "health food", but it could help ameliorate the "damage" Good news for everyone with a sweet tooth! Right after stevia has finally made it to the European market, the next 1/2 natural sweetener is at the ready. It's called d-psicose and it is a cousin of fructose that is yet only 70% as sweet as sucrose (fructose is +20% sweeter than sugar) but has only 0.3% of its energy content. In other words on a per calorie base it is 233x sweeter than sugar. That alone would however hardly justify an individual blogpost. What is yet exciting about this molecule is that a recently published rodent study does suggest that it can inhibit adipocyte maturation and thusly exerts direct anti-obesity effects. The first sweetener that will actively help in weight loss? In the course of a 12-week trial, a group of Sprague-dawley rats was initially fed up with the standard laboratory "high fat diet...

Image 1: A mixer like this would be one of the best choices to turn your healthy low-GI sweet (or regular) potato into a high GI "nightmare". If you've read yesterday's first part of the Potato Manifesto , you should by now be aware that the common notion of the pro-diabetic high-glycemic regular potato is another of the numerous black-or-white nutrition myths that do not become right, no matter how many bloggers and forum posters reiterate them. In today's second part of the series I will try to elucidate, whether the sweet potato, of which I would venture to say that she is the "en vogue tuber of the year", is not still the "safer starch alternative" . So bear with me while I am using my scientific peeling knife to check whether there is a bitter truth hidden beneath skin of the sweet potatoes ;-) Come on sweety, show me what's beneath your skin! Now, if we take a look at the literature, a review of the glycemic index of 33 commo...