SuppVersity - Nutrition and Exercise Science for Everyone

Image 1 (lecker.de): They may look cute and harmless, but they are just one of the many incarnations of the worst transfatty acids offenders in the diets of the "average American" cake, cookie and pastry lovers. Believe it or not: Some of them manage to eat almost 100g of the proatherogenic fats per day (!) Saturday and therefore time for a handful of " On Short Notice " news. We've got some ground to cover, today, so let's get started right away: We will start out by taking a look at the joint-healing / -protective effects of cinnamophilin , a compound from the roots of the cinnamomum trees. We will reconsider the importance of adiponectin for the non-obese physical culturist , switch from aspirin to tomato powder as our cancer prevention "drug" of choice and re-appreciate the newly discovered cell-protective value of a supplement 90% of you are probably already taking: creatine! Once we are done with that we revisit the potential connect...

Image 1: Paul Bart ( Kevin James ) in Mall Cop (Columbia) probably would be better off weight- and health- wise without his Segway, which is by the way among the " 50 Worst Gadgets of the Decade " in the Business Insider hall of shame from 2009 (Barret, Brian. 2009) The SuppVersity was the first place you read about the how " Carbs past 6pm Will Make You Lean " (at least about the non-anecdotal scientific evidence) and for 99% of you, this will probably be the first time you read about the "follow up paper" on the original study, which was originally intended to induce a shift in the circadian pattern of leptin secretion in order to make use of its fat burning effects over night. Exactly this is the focus of a follow up paper that's soon going to be published in Nutrition, Metabolism & Cardiovascular Diseases (Sofer. 2012). Israeli Police Diet Acadamy Reloaded! Now the bad news is that the news are only partly new. In other words, the I...

Image 1: A major problem with all comparison shots is that lighting and tanning make it difficult to judge appropriately even if you strike your poses as perfectly as Adelfo does...check out image 2 & 3 as well and judge for yourself - where have those 6lbs gone? It's Thursday, my friends, and today neither Adelfo nor I have been slacking or busy, which means that it's about time for another thursdaily guest lecture from "your's truly", as he would probably write, Adelfo Cerame Jr. whose latest "6lbs heavier than during my last prep"-pictures look - as usual - pretty amazing...; and that despite the fact that he has got to turn around so that you can see where he has put those three kilograms of lean mass. I guess, you will remember that in one of his latest posts he wrote he always hated training his back - now, he can't train his legs, but I know most of you can, so be honest: Do you like training your legs? No!? Well do it anyway, when y...

Image 1: You may already have read it on the SuppVersity Facebook Wall ; "Sacrificing sleep in order to study won't improve your college grades..." it could however easily whack your circadian rhythm and give you headaches. If those turn into a migraine, you may be happy to have read about beneficial effects of magnesium on the incidence of these crippling and painful attacks (see last item in this installment of " On Short Notice " ). In order to avoid having another weekend of " On Short Notice " posts, I decided to post the first collection today, already. The topics are, as usually, only loosely related and I hope that each and everyone of you will find something he or she considers interesting. We'll start out by having a brief look at the amazing antioxidant effects of red onions, and then delve deeper into the connection between obesity and low ferritin levels and a brief reminder that sometimes good things can become bad, if they are ...

Image 1: Instinctively right? Milk contains soluble (=whey) proteins and casein. Are we overthinking things, when we rip them apart and does it even make a difference? Or is timing all that counts? It's funny. " Overthinking ", right next to overtraining and overdieting , has become one of the most common problems among the health and fitness enthusiasts who spend equal (or even more) time online as in the gym. "Would it be better if I take my BCAAs at a 3:1:1 or 2:1:1 ratio?", "Does it matter if my protein powder is 10% hydrosolate, 50% isolate and 40% concentrate or has a 30/50/20 ratio?" All that may well make a difference, but let's be honest: Look at the things 80% of these people are eating day in and day out and the way they throw the weights around in the gym and contrast that to a question like "Will my post-workout protein synthesis be 5% greater, when I switch from concentrates to hydrosolates?" ... enough of the ranting,...