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Intermittent Thoughts on Insulin Resistance: Episode I of the "Insulin Resistance Saga" - Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Lurks on Your Way to the Kindergarten

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Image 1: Map with the 2007 Rates of Overweight and Obese Children in the USA. With a childhood obesity rate of 44.4% Mississipi is the uncontested no.1 (source NCSL ) When we look back at the last installment of the Intermittent Thoughts the maybe surprising, maybe foreseeable end of the "Insulin Resistance Saga" was that that our protagonist, the human body ended up in a state, in which its cells are starving - and that despite exogenous, as well as as endogenous overabundance of energy in form of readily available calorically dense food (exogenous) and body fat stores that are bursting at the seams... but was it really Granny's pie that is to blame for all of that? Or was not enough exercise, after all? I guess to answer these and other questions and to get a little more insight into what people like to call the etiology of something - in this case, obviously insulin resistance and the obesity epidemic - we will have to go back, way back in time... Flashback to ...
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Challenging the Special K Challenge: Especially Convenient or Especially Stupid 14-Day Weight Loss "Solution"?

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Image 1: Is this really all it takes to lose those unhealthy and unaesthetic pounds? Two servings of a breakfast cereal a day, instead of two of your regular meals? Sounds too "good" (?) to be true, right? A study says it works, but only the SuppVersity will tell you the real costs! For me, as a German, it is quite surprising that the words "Special K", or rather the reference to the eponymous product comes up pretty often in the health and nutrition blogosphere, when someone wants to point out an e-special-ly (K) unhealthy breakfast. While "low fat", still looms large here in Germany and "diet"-this and "diet"-that stickers (respective products usually carry the label "light", which shall obviously imply "light" as in "lightweight") are attached to an ever-growing number of products in the mainstream supermarkets, my fellow countrymen (I am unfortunately not so sure about the women, though) must yet ha...
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"80-85% 1RM, 6-10 Reps"? Changes in Muscle Fiber-Type in Response to Classic, Super Slow and Light Training Confirm "Old School Training" Rules and Will Always Prevail!

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Image 1: If you don't want to be strong and look good naked, you better not train like "old school" like Arnold, Franco Columbu (img), Dave Draper, Frank Zane & Co. Although, I do assume that you just dropped everything, went home from work early, or simply did not leave the house at all to be able to listen to my appearance on Carl Lanore's Super Human Radio , yesterday, I know that sometimes more important things (whatever that may be) get into one's way and will thusly give you a second chance, today (click here to download the podcast )... well, so far for the humorous part of this post. Assuming that by now, you did listen to the podcast you should remember that I promised to have something about exercise and strength training in the news, today. And as Carl will probably assert, Super Humans usually stick to their promises, although - and I did mention that yesterday, as well - the number of significant studies, i.e. studies that do not involve ...
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Adelfo Cerame - Road to Wheelchair Nationals '12: Dismiss Calorie Cutting, Pancakes & English Muffins, Embrace Intermittent Fasting, Fruits and Each Step on the Way!

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Image 1: Don't get stressed with doing everything right, just do it ;-) Sometimes its strange how things get together unplanned. With me being on Carl Lanore's Super Human Radio, today at 1pm EST ( click here to listen live! ), talking about what happens when science and the real world "collide" and how both scientific paradigms and conventional wisdom are probably the most common causes of questionable conclusions (science) and lack of results (real world) and Adelfo sending me his weekly update on how the "wanna lose fat, got to cut calories"-paradigm is still bothering him... Five weeks out and putting bees into my own bonnet! I am counting the days, ... mainly because I don’t know what else to do with myself *lol* - It just feels like I need to do something to manipulate my training and my diet even further, but I really can’t do much at this point, but stay the course… I’m trying not to cut any more calories, because I want to avoid either losin...
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+76% Testosterone & Protection From Insane Amounts of EMR With Rosmarinic Acid from O. Basilicum, Majoram, Thyme and Several Other Herbs in Your Kitchen Cabinet

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Figure 1: O. basilicum extract was the rosmarinic acid (RA) source that was used in the study at hand; other common herbs which contain RA include rosemary (who would have guessed that ;-), Spanish sage , lavender , perilla and lemon balm , majoram , thyme and mint That I am not a fan of testosterone boosters is probably an "open secret"... specifically in terms of "scientifically proven" ones, without any human data to back their claims and a single rodent study published in the African Journal of Pharmacology to back claims that like "increases lean mass" or "helps you shed body fat" that would not be supported by the study data, anyways... so, just to make sure that you , as a faithful student of the SuppVersity are the first to know about the (I bet) soon to be released "scientifically proven" testosterone booster, I decided to share with you the results of... exactly, one of those rodent studies from the January issue of the...
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HIT the Cravings - Eat Less, Improve Your Health & Lose Weight: "Burning 350kcal" at >75% VO2-Max Improves Calorie Balance Doing it at 40% Just Makes You Hungry!

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Image 1: Even if the boys in the study at hand still ate "more calories than they expended", HIT would certainly slow their progress from the healthy kid in the left to the obese and more importantly unhealthy one on the right. Have you ever wondered why the Biggest Losers do survive their almost zero calorie diets? Well, a recent study from the France could well hold the answer ( Thivel. 2012 ): Their intense and often temporarily totally exhausting exercise regimen! "What? That insane cardio + whatever you may call that torture 12h/day ..." - I see you are surprised, because in essence most of the stuff they do appears to (and actually is) totally idiotic. I am however not growing tired of repeating that even taking the stairs easily turns into an high intensity exercise if you have to carry a 200lbs apron of fat from the ground- to say the third floor . If you don't believe it, do 50 lunges with 200lbs and tell me that this ain't "high intensit...
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"Strong is the Better Sexy!" Athletes Are Better Role Models Than Sexualized Cover Models For Young Women

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Image 1: Photos of like this, showing athletic women, during competition, or when they train, unfortunately, never make it to the magazine covers, with their heavily photoshop-ed images of male and female "celebrities". Those of you who have not skipped my lengthy introduction to Adelfo's latest blogpost will probably have read between the lines that I personally believe that the influence of attitudinal values and believes about themselves and others on failure and success of what people usually refer to as their "transformation" is largely underrated. On the one hand of the extreme, you have those, who run around telling everyone how "happy" they are with the (mostly pretty chubby) "way they are" only to boil out their eyes, when they get home from work and sit lonely in front of their television. Then, you got those people who acknowledge that they are not really satisfied with the way they look, but that the latter "must...
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