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The Pro-Insulinogenic Activity of Saturated Fat: High Fat, High GIP, High Insulin After 6 Days on High SFA Diet

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Asian foods are low in SFAs. So the researchers had to add it to the pan. From a physiological perspective, the observation researchers from the Nakamura Gakuen University , the  Akita University, the Chiba University and the University of Copenhagen appear counter-intuitive, why should fat increase the insulin response to a meal. The presence of fat in a meal should slow down the absorption of glucose, right? Obviously you haven't read my previous article on the fallacies of adding fat to glucose in the false believe that the reduced digestive speed would reduce the post-prandial insulin spike ("True or False? Adding Fat to A Carby Meal Lowers Insulin Response." | read more ) - a highly suggested read you may want to read either, before or after you devour today's SuppVersity article. You can learn more about fat at the SuppVersity Are Men Fat- & Women Sugar-Cravers? Fat, not Fructose Cons. Increased in the US Adding Fats to Carbs Does not ...
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L-Ornithine an Anti-Stress Agent: Lower Cortisol, Higher DHEA, Better Sleep W/ Only 400mg of Ornithine Pre-Bed. Plus: Mini-Review of Add. Benefits - Burns, Gut Health, etc.

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Stressed? Maybe ornithine can help. Or is this study just a hoax!? Sounds like marketing shenanigan, right? "Lower Cortisol, Higher DHEA, Better Sleep W/ Only 400mg of Ornithine Pre-Bed." Ok, if it was marketing it would probably say "with only 5g of ornithine." I mean, 400mg that's not enough to generate significant revenues - is it? But before we get to the marketing side of things, let's first look at the science, researchers from the Research Laboratories for Health Science & Food Technologies present in a recent paper in the Nutrition Journal , an open-access journal which charges scientists a certain fee for processing their papers. You can learn more about sleep and the circadian rhythm at the SuppVersity Sunlight, Bluelight, Backlight and Your Clock Sunlight a La Carte: "Hack" Your Rhythm Breaking the Fast to Synchronize the Clock Fasting (Re-)Sets the Peripheral Clock Vitamin A & Caffeine Set the Clock ...
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Mono-Sodium Glutamate (MSG) As Dieting Aid for the Avg. Glutton? MSG "Preload" Reduces Total Energy Intake per Meal by 3-5% - Adding Extra Protein Amplifies the Effect

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Spicy Carrot Soup ( recipe ) - Would it be more satiating, if it was made with MSG? The study at hand shows: Yes, if it's eaten as an entree, it will actually reduce your food intake more than an MSG-free soup, you'd eat before a meal. Mono-sodium glutamate, or MSG, as it is usually called, is a strange molecule. Previous research suggests it may have a paradoxically biphasic effect on appetite: Just as common wisdom tells you, it will increase your appetite while you are eating an MSG-flavored meal due to its (umami) flavour enhancing effect. On the other hand, there is also irrefutable evidence to show that that MSG will enhance subsequent satiety - an effect of which scientists believe that it is brought about by its proposed role as a predictor of protein content. In their latest experiment, Una Masic and Martin R. Yeomans from the University of Sussex wanted to elucidate, whether one could make use of the satiety effect without increasing the risk of overeating. ...
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Processed Meat is Bad for You, But Only if You Are Already a Type II Diabetic - Reduced Satiety Hormones, Vitamin C and Glucose Control After Veggie vs. Meat Burger

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Is your love for meat going to kill you? Not if you're not already a walking candy stick with sugar coated ateries and a beer belly. I am pretty sure that the mainstream interpretation of the study at hand will be missing the important "but only if you ARE ALREADY a type II diabetic" in the headline of today's SuppVersity article. Meat bashing and vegetarian protein worshiping is simply too "en vogue" these days for the average "science journalist" to stick to the actual data and tell you that the ingestion of isoenergetic processed meat vs. vegan high carbohydrate meals leaves only one conclusion: For healthy individuals, processed fatty meals produce a much more favorable postprandial peptide response compared to the "allegedly super healthy" (and morally superior ;-) acetic vegetarian plant-based burger meal (a couscous burger: boiled couscous, baked with onion, garlic, plant oil, spices, oat-flakes in a wheat bun with sesame se...
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Metabolic Damage in Biggest Losers: Will Diet & Intense Exercise Make You Fat, While Surgery Will Make You Lean? Plus: How to Avoid / Correct Diet-Induced REE Reductions

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If you start to work out when you are already obese, it'll still help you lose weight, but if you'd been active the years before chances are you'd not have such weighty problems and wouldn't have to fear metabolic slow down. Let me answer the question in the headline of today's SuppVersity Article right away, 'cause the answer short and easy: "No!" If you compare the body composition of the Biggest Losers who were included in a recent study by scientists from the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda and the Pennington State Biomedical Research Center, the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and the University of California-Los Angeles to that of their bariatric surgery patients, the "Biggest Losers" (BLC) had lower body fat and higher lean mass percentages than their peers who took the easy way out (Knuth. 2014). What is non-debatable, though, is the fact that the thirteen "Big Losers" also exhibited significantly m...
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