Category: Nutrition
Your body burns more calories after a meal with fish oil
Fish oil supplementation boosts energy expenditure after a meal, so it makes weight loss or maintenance of a healthy weight a tiny bit easier. Canadia [...]
Shake containing 20g whey protein makes weight loss diet easier
Athletes who do weight training and want to lose weight can keep their appetite under control – and therefore also increase the chance of their weight [...]
Weight-gain cherry diet: more muscle mass, less fat
What blueberries can do, cherries can do too. Researchers at the University of Michigan published a study in which rats that had been fattened with a [...]
Peanuts don’t make you fat
Somehow the human body uses the energy from peanuts in a different way than energy from other foods. Either it doesn't absorb all the energy the pean [...]
The anabolic effect of garlic
Garlic powder boosts testosterone production and reduces cortisol production. This discovery was made by researchers at Kobe University and pharmaceut [...]
Plant protein spares kidneys
Growing numbers of people suffer from chronic kidney disease. Risk factors include diabetes, high blood pressure and – as you age – a diet containing [...]
Too much emphasis on breakfast when dieting will cost you muscle mass
If you want to lose weight you need to make sure you get a good breakfast. Try asking Google. But a small study done in 1997 showed that athletes ma [...]
Turmeric inhibits conversion of amino acids into glucose
Gluconeogenesis is a useful process, but if muscle building is your hobby, you'd probably prefer it if it didn’t work so well. Gluconeogenesis is the [...]
Bodybuilders know the healthy way to lose weight
Most people who lose weight become less healthy as a result. People who want to become thinner and stay healthy are best off doing that in the bodybu [...]
Dieting is unhealthy
Overweight is unhealthy, but fat people who lose weight may actually become even more unhealthy. That's the devilish dilemma facing millions of fat [...]
Low carb + intensive training = fall in testosterone levels
Trained athletes who a) cycle hard for an hour a day and b) eat little carbohydrate produce less testosterone and more cortisol [structural formulas s [...]
The best carbs for your whey shake are found in honey
It doesn't really make an awful lot of difference which easily absorbable carbohydrates strength athletes use for their protein shakes. According to a [...]
Cyclists recover quicker with protein and maltodextrine shake
After intensive activity cyclists recover more quickly if they drink a shake containing proteins and maltodextrine than if they drink a sports drink c [...]
More vitamin D, more muscle mass
If you have an optimal amount of vitamin D in your blood – which surprisingly few people actually do – you'll have more muscle mass than if your vitam [...]
Green lip mussel extract reduces damage to muscles after extreme exertion
If you take green lip mussel extract for a couple of weeks and then subject your muscles to unusually heavy exertion, you can reduce the unavoidable m [...]
