Archive for July, 2007
Monday, July 30th, 2007
High fat diets induce insulin resistance and obesity in rats. Reducing the amount of carbohydrates with a high fat diet reduces the obesity, but not the insulin resistance.
A very high fat diet with zero carbohydrates resulted in impaired glucose tolerance, insulin resistance and hypoadiponectinemia....but they did not become obese.
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Friday, July 27th, 2007
A small group of women were placed on calorie restricted diets, one emphasizing vegegables and one emphasizing cereal grains.
Both groups lost weight, but the group that received the cereal grains achieved 40% better results.
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Tuesday, July 24th, 2007
A multiple stage, ultra-endurance triathlon over 10 days resulted in significant fat loss and no loss of lean body mass, indicating that all of the weight lost was from body fat. The participants lost an average of 3 kg (about 6.6 lbs).
Low intensity aerobic exercise is predominantly fueled by fatty ...
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Friday, July 20th, 2007
It is generally believed that it is impossible to spot reduce. This study used modern measuring techniques to measure subcutaneous fat in trained and untrained arms after resistance training.
When measured by skinfold, subcutaneous fat decreased in the trained arm and not the untrained arm in the men. MRI measurements of ...
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Tuesday, July 17th, 2007
A small group of obese and non-obese adolescents were tested to determine maximum fat oxidation rates during exercise. Maximum fat oxidation occured at around 58% maximum heart rate. Males had slightly higher fat oxidation at that intensity. Interestingly, there was no difference between the obese and non-obese groups.
Fat oxidation rates ...
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Friday, July 13th, 2007
Blood levels of vitamin C are inversely related to BMI, body fat percentage and waist circumference. The study used 500 mg of vitamin C daily.
Vitamin C improves insulin sensitivity, which is the likely mechanism of the decrease in abdominal fat. Also, vitamin C is an anti-stress vitamin and stress is ...
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