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Bodybuilding for Pekin Ducks: L-Arginine Supplementation Gets Poultry Stage Ready. More Muscle, Less Fat.

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Image 1: Not your usual exercise and nutrition science magazine: The Journal of British Poultry Science ( Taylor Francis Group . 2011) Those of you who have followed the Amino Acids for Super Human Series on Carl Lenore's Super Human Radio will be familiar with the manifold benefits supplementation with the conditionally essential amino acid l-arginine has on blood pressure, glucose metabolism, endothelial health, etc. If you also listened to the last installment of the series ( Amino Acids for Super Humans III: The Sulfur Amino Acids ), you will know about my special affiliation with chicken, with chicken. Taken together, this may in parts explain, why today's SuppVersity newsitem is about a study from the Chinese Hubei Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition and Feed Science in Wuhan ( Wu. 2011 ). In their study that has been published in the latest issue of the "famous" Journal of British Poultry Science (...
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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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