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Food Quality Counts: Processed Foods Are Obesogenic + Induce a Nasty...
Due to the vicious cycle of pizza, coke, ice-cream and an ever-increasing lack of motivation, you have to be great to start.I know..., I know. We are, as so often, dealing with a rodent study here,...
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Lack of Cortisol characteristic for young obesity patients. Plus: Self-Esteem...
Cortisol is not your enemy. In fact, cortisol is one of the few hormones you really need to survive.Cortisol is a problem. However, just as it is the case with insulin, it's not the fact that your body...
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Endocrine Side-Effects of Athletic Competition: Is Power Lifting for Pussies...
With only one female power lifter and fewer female athletes for all sports, I didn't copy the hardly legible data for them, as well.Some of you will remember the sneak peak of the results of a recent...
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Scientists Probe the Interaction Between Saturated and Unsaturated High Fat...
This add is a perfect example of how saturated fat, in this case lard has always been blamed for the "lard" on ones hips. Any hypothesis that tries to blame for our "fat misery" on a single nutrient is...
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Where Protein Fails, Protein + Resistance Training Succeed: Lifting Corrects...
It takes pains to maintain your gains!You will certainly remember the shocking revelation that simply eating more protein is not going to prevent the diet induced muscle loss that occurs whenever you...
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There is More To Glucose Control Than Carbohydrates (4/?): Non-Carbohydrate...
Healthy due to calcium?In the last three weeks we've already covered the effects of protein, fat and vitamin D in this series about the "non-carbohydrate" (micro-)nutrients which have an impact on your...
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It's True: Fructose Makes You Fat - In Fact, It Even Makes You Make Fat!...
In the fashion business, "light or not light" (light=diet as in "Diet Coke" US vs Coke Light Germany) is not really a question to ask. Actually I have given up writing about fructose. It appears as if...
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Tai Chi & Circuit Training Have Both Beneficial Effects on BP of Middle-Aged...
It's a beautiful sight (and site) - that's for sure, but compared to "true" exercise doing Thai Chi in the bay is not exactly going to yield live-changing results.Ok, I have to admit, I am a dopamine...
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Pre-Hypertension Ain't Benign: Up to 80% Increased Risk of Cardiovascular...
"High normal" is misleading - there is no such thing as a "high normal" BP"Ah, that's not so bad!" If that's what your doctor said, when he last measured your blood pressure and said "129/84" when he...
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Coconut Miracle? Anti-Arthritis Effects of Virgin Coconut Oil Confirmed -...
Coconut Wonder, Coconut science or Both?As a seasoned SuppVersity veteran, you will remember that I have been mocking the incredible hype around (virgin) coconut oil for years; not because there wasn't...
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Sprint & Strength Training - A Dynamic Duo For Synergistic Effects: Increased...
Sprinting allowed: Adding two high intensity sprinting interval sessions to a basic weight lifting template entails nothing, but benefits.Beware, kid! You will become bulky and slow, if you lift...
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Anti-Oxidants & Resistance Training: In the Elderly We See Minimal Benefits....
Health, performance, longevity: It's all about ROS-management. The age-diffe- rence that's showing in the contemporary evidence pro/against the negative effects of vitamin C + E on exercise induced...
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Niacin (B3) & Glucose Management | Part V of the "There is More To Glucose...
Some scientists speculate that the niacin could be the root cause of the diabesity epidemic. Others believe it's the solution.After last the installments on vitamin D and calcium, I decided that it...
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If Insulin Sensitivity is Key, What's the Key to Insulin Sensi- tivity?...
Insulin sensitivity is a necessary pre- requisite for much more than a profane set of sixpack abs.You will probably have realized that the number of short-news like articles on the SuppVersity has been...
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Losing Weight Doesn't Have to Ruin Your Metabolism: No Unexpected Reduction...
Weight loss is easy, but doing it fast and without losing muscle is - as of now - more of an art than a science.In the past weeks I have received a couple of questions which revolved around the notion...
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"Now You Can Eat All The Crap in The World and Still Lose Weight"...
Yeah! I am in the active arm of the study! Now I Can Eat All The Crap in The World and Still Lose Weight!I have been waiting for this study to be conducted for years and am by no means surprised that a...
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There is More To Glucose Control Than Carbohydrates (2/?): Non-Carbohydrate...
Some say "fat is a mistake" others say "it was our fattest mistake to believe just that" - who is right? Or are things eventually more complicated than that?In the last installment of this series,...
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Non-Fasted Cardio the True Key To Weight Loss? Study Shows Significant...
Cardio & weight training are not mutually exclusive | learn more!It's actually quite funny. A few days ago I wrote in a short blurb for the daily SuppVersity Classic Article that the "never-ending...
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Pycnogenol-Based Antioxidant Supplement Lactaway(TM) Boosts Resistance...
Performance ￪, Growth Hormone ￬Alright, I know that no one actually knows how important the post-exercise increase in systemic growth hormone actually is when it comes to building muscle (there is...
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Time Under Tension (TUT) - Random Numbers or Forgotten Determinant of...
"Go slow, grow fast" - does it really work this way?I have to admit that I didn't have time to write "complete" article, so I will just work out an introduction and a bottom line to a never-finished...
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