Archive for 2008
Monday, April 21st, 2008
Medium chain triglycerides (MCT) are medium length chains of fatty acids that are digested without the modifications that longer chain fatty acids require. Consuming MCT oil can increase energy expenditure compared to long chain fatty acids such as common saturated and unsaturated fats.
A recent study compared the intake of MCT oil to ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
Using high protein meal replacement formulas can result in faster weight loss than following low fat, low calorie diets. A six week study of 90 overweight and obese individuals found that those who received a high protein meal replacement formula lost twice as much weight and nearly twice as much ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Endurance trained athletes possess increased insulin sensitivity and fat oxidative capacity over untrained individuals. They also have increased levels of intramuscular fat known as intramyocellular lipid. It appears that aerobic exercise training increases levels of this fat while improving obesity indices.
A 16 week moderate aerobic exercise training program produced a ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Restricting salt during pregnancy may increase the risk of obesity of female offspring once adults. The offspring of rats fed a restricted salt diet had greater obesity indices than those fed a normal salt diet.
The low salt rats had increased retroperitoneal fat mass, higher leptin levels in males and lower leptin levels in females, increased plasma renin ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
Supplementing with vitamin D can increase the rate of weight loss during dieting. Those with high blood levels of vitamin D achieved triple the weight loss of those with low levels of the vitamin.
The groups received either a high vegetable diet or a high cereal grain diet. Both groups lost ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
A large Czech study found that thyroid and adrenal hormones are associated with body fat levels and BMI. A weak association was found between body composition, fat distribution and the hormones of the hypothalamus-pituitary-thyroid-adrenal axis (HPTA).
Higher thyroid hormone levels were associated with improved fat distribution and lower BMI in women. ...
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
Obesity results in decreased fatty acid oxidation rates in muscle tissue. Weight loss alone does not correct impaired muscle fatty acid oxidation. But exercise training begins to increase muscle fatty acid oxidation in as little as 10 days.
Those beginning an exercise program can expect better weight loss results over the long term ...
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
Including low fat dairy products in your diet can improve your weight loss efforts. Higher dairy consumption is associated with greater weight loss and a greater decrease in waist circumference.
The study was not funded by the milk industry. It is a myth that dairy contributes to obesity.
Other studies have actually shown ...
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