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LeanSource Meal Solutions are nutritionally balanced, protein-packed drinks that will offer consumers a convenient breakfast or lunch alternative when a prepared […] (more…)

Fat Land Makes A Shocking Read
I’m just finished reading ‘Fat Land’ by Greg Critser which chronicles how Americans have become the fattest people in the world. He pulls no punches explaining how it is that more than 25% of teenagers are now overweight or obese.

The books charts the changes to food consumption. From the introduction of extremely unhealthy fats such […] (more…)

Know Your Numbers
When you are trying to lose weight, focus is usually on the pounds you weigh, the pounds you have already lost, the pounds you have still to lose, your measurements and possibly your body fat percentage. However, your goal should not just be about losing weight and inches, it should be about leading a healthier […] (more…)

Folic Acid Supplements Won’t Lower Heart-Attack Risk (Healthday)
Two new studies question the conventional wisdom that folic acid and B vitamin supplementation lowers cardiovascular risk. (more…)

Biggest Loser Trainer Says ‘Thanks’ To Low-Carb Blogger
Although I had conducted an interview with him last Fall through his book publisher as part of the promotion of the bestselling book “The Biggest Loser,” one of the NBC reality television show's fitness trainers Bob Harper contacted me… (more…)

Absorption and metabolism of conjugated ?-linolenic acid given as free fatty acids or triacylglycerols in rats
Background:
Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) is a group of polyunsaturated fatty acids which have been extensively studied in the past two decades. However, conjugated octadecatrienoic acid such as cis-9,trans-11,cis-15 and cis-9,trans-13,cis-15, recently identified, have not been extensively investigated. This work presents bioavailability and tissue incorporation of a mixture of conjugated octadecatrienoic (CLnA) acids ingested as free fatty acids (FFA) and triacylglycerols (TAG).
Results:
Male Wistar rats were fed rumenic acid (RA: cis-9,trans-11 18:2) and a CLnA mixture (cis-9,trans-11,cis-15 18:3 and cis-9,trans-13,cis-15 18:3) as FFA and TAG for 8 days. RA and CLnA were both totally absorbed when given as FFA as well as TAG. Both isomers of CLnA as FFA or TAG were incorporated into neutral lipids. Metabolites up to 22:6 conjugated isomers were present in liver and plasma phospholipids of rats fed the CLnA diets.
Conclusion:
Finally, CLnA are as well absorbed as RA in vivo and their incorporation into tissues and bioconversion are similar when ingested as FFA or as TAG. (more…)

Circadian Rhythms Disorders and Sleep Phase Syndrome
Sleep forms part of human?s biological need to rest. As a person sleeps, the various physiological processes of a human body figuratively put into an apparent arrest and some parts of our system that were mostly exploited can be replenished for future use.
However, imagine a system so disrupted that our normal scheduling for sleeping and waking is totally altered. Some people tend to sleep early and wake up early in the morning and some cannot sleep early and as a consequence, wakes up late.
These and other sleep-related problems are manifestations of a malfunctioning biological circadian clock and characterize several forms of Circadian Rhythm Syndrome. Circadian activity is a unique by 24-hour period or cycles in which our body is physically patterned. (more…)