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Gear for Your Ear! Fast & Slow Songs Can Both Speed You Up on the First 800m of a 5K. Plus: Calm Songs Increase Vagal Tone & CNS Activity, Fast Songs Spike You Up!

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One of the runners in the study (original image from Bigliassi. 2014) Music-related interventions have been widely used in sports and exercise; and despite the fact that you've read about respective studies here at the SuppVersity before I thought the publication of a recent study from the Center of  Physical  Education  and  Sports at the State  University of Londrina was a good reason to address the issue once more. It goes without saying that there are numerous external factors which determine the optimal workout music, as well as how and when to use it. Against that background, it should be obvious that the following study outcomes are not entitled to be "universal". HIIT workouts probably require different music than LISS workouts Never Train To Burn Calories! Tabata = 14.2kcal /min ≠ Fat Loss 30s Intervals + 2:1 Work/Rec. Making HIIT a Hit Part I/II Making HIIT a Hit Part II/II Triple Your Energy Exp. Just think about pers...
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Weight Loss Acupuncture: Study Reports 5% Weight Loss in 8 Weeks. More Than the Exception That Proves the Rule?

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It's the ear, not the belly that has to be (acu-)punctured to make the nasty pounds disappear. I am pretty sure that at least some of you will have seen the headlines about one week ago: "Acupuncture Facilitates Effortless Weight Loss!" It sounds like a scam. If you actually read the corresponding press release, however, you'll have realized that the headlines were based on the results of a the results of a study that was conducted at the East-West Medical Research Institute of the Kyung Hee University in Korea, where the stimulation of the tested five ear acupuncture points (Shen-men, Spleen, Stomach, Hunger, Endocrine) has been used traditionally to curb the appetite of overweight patients for centuries. 6.1% and 5.7% reduction in BMI without diet or exercise As it turned out, it was not even necessary to "nail" all 5 of the trigger points. As you will probably have learned from the press release, already, even the subjects in whom the researcher...
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Mono-Sodium Glutamate (MSG), NAFLD, Leptin Resistance, Trans-Fats, HFCS, Gluttony, Leaky Gut & Brain, the Vagus Nerve and the Chinese Restaurant Syndrome - Bon Appetit!

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Image 1 (msg-exposed.com): Is obesity the inevitable, unnatural metabolic long-term equivalent of the dreaded "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome"? Earlier today, I posted a blurb from a recently published epidemiological study on the effects of mono-sodium glutamate, aka MSG, an umami = all taste receptor activator that is commonly found in all sorts of ready made foods that would otherwise taste as lame as their individual fake ingredients, on the SuppVersity facebook wall (Insawang . 2012). The scientists had evaluated the data from 324 families (349 adult subjects, age 35–55 years) from a rural area of Thailand and found that the prevalence of metabolic syndrome was not just significantly higher in the tertile with the highest MSG intake, but that the "odds ratio", i.e. the chance that a certain parameter, in this case "obese, yes/no" would be found to be true, increased with every 1 g increase in total MSG intake irrespective of  the total energy inta...
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