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Leafy Green Veggies Set Omega-6 on Fire? Plus: Proprietary but Worth Mentioning Milk Protein Contrate for Knee Pain

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Not new, but still novel: "Proprietary Milk Protein Concentrate" about to make a come(back) in your joint supplements? And what are the implications of the counter-intuitive effects of leafy greens in a(n unhealthy) diet? Does this mean you have to stay away from collard greens (CG), purslane (PL), or orange flesh sweet potato greens (SPG) and other putative health foods? If you follow @SuppVersity on Facebook, you will know the peer-reviewed open access journal " Nutrients " - they publish a lot of interesting papers every month and some even make it from the short news on Facebook to an actual full-length article on the SuppVersity - two studies did just that, today: A study by Johnson et al. with the potential to (eventually unwarrantedly) spoil your appetite for leafy greens and an RCT by Ziegenfuss et al. you should know if you want to stay on top of the research on "joint supplements"... joint supplements that seem to work even for people with m...
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NaHCO3 aka Baking Soda Washes All Pesticides Off Your Fruits & Veggies | 100% Pesticide Removal From Surface

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Simply rinsing produce with tap water will not remove any relevant amount of pesticides. SuppVersity  veterans will remember the 2013 installment of " True or False " discussing whether "Washing Your Fruit and Veggies is Useless" ( re-read it ). The bottom line back then was: it's well worth spending the inconvenient extra-minute it takes to prepare warm water (28-32 °C), put your foods in, scrub a little with your hand and then continue processing them. Now, after the publication of a recent study in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry  (ahead of print | Yang 2017), I will probably have to update this article. The authors, scientists from the University of Massachusetts were, after all, able to prove that baking soda, sodium bicarbonate or NaHCO3 comes close to peeling with respect to its ability to reduce the pesticide load from conventional and organic produce. Looking for more cutting-edge exercise and supplementation science? Vitargo...
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Study Suggests: Frozen Veggies Worse Than Common Wisdom Says - Frozen Asparagus, Zucchini and Green Beans Lose More Antioxidants During Boiling

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Green asparagus from the fridge and  from the market are not created equal - at least not when they finally end up on your plate after a short bath in hot water. You just have to watch one of the consumer report shows on television to hear it: "Frozen veggies are way better than their reputation would suggest." Actually, here in Germany this sentence has been repeated to soften that I've even heard people say they'd buy the frozen broccoli because it contained "more vitamins and the other good stuff, you know." And you know what? For some veggies like spinach, for example, this may actually be the case. For others, like broccoli or peas, the nutrient status of the frozen and the raw uncooked vegetable appears to be more or less identical (Favell. 1998). But that's something you cannot say for the green asparagus stems, zucchini and green beans in a recent study from the Università degli Studi di Parma in Italy. Warning: Don't take this artic...
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Veggies Rule: As an Adjunct to Your Starches Leafy Greens Reduce Postprandial Glycemia + Insulin and Boost the Production of the Anti-Obesogenic Satiety Hormone GLP-1

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Don't worry, you don't have to eat veggies only for the rest of your life, but you should never eat a meal without them! I've been writing about the "add fat to your carbs to ameliorate the obesogenic insulin response" bullsh*t before (see "True or False? Adding Fat to A Carby Meal Lowers Insulin Response. Muscle Hypertrophy Impairs Oxygen Diffusion. Reducing Carb Intake Improve Muscular Insulin Sensitivity" | read more ). What I have not been writing about before are better alternatives. Alternatives such as a huge bowl of veggies. A bowl like the one the participants in a recent study from the Graduate School of Human Sciences and Design at the Japan Women’s University in Tokyo consumed as an adjunct to a standardized white rice meal. Add veggies to your rice! Basically, the scientists tested four different conditions. In condition (S), the participants consumed only the staple food (boiled white rice weighing 200 g heated in a microwave oven...
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Set to Be Obese? Epigenetic Programing in Utero - The Roles of Over- & Undernutrition, High & Low Protein, Fruits, Veggies, Zinc, Magnesium, Chromium, Vitamins & More

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Image 1: Your mother's diet is not the sole cause of your love handles and health problems, but it could well have tipped the scale to your fat disadvantage. Don't be resentful, but don't repeat the same mistakes, either! While it is certainly false to assume that anyone can't help but to get obese, it's similarly hard to deny that some people just have to cut back on the coke and sweets they eat to get back in shape, while others struggle with shedding superfluous weight (=fat) and regaining their health even if they are in a reasonable caloric deficit, eat a whole foods diet and exercise regularly. "It must be in my genes!" is what you will usually hear from people on both ends of the spectrum and while the former will smile at you and grab the next best snickers bar, just "to make sure that they don't lose too much weight", the unfortunate people on the other end of the spectrum are clutching to each and every straw, or, in these day...
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