Fitness Pudding - Where The Proof Is

A really cool study recently examined 82 women on a hypocaloric diet, who were randomly assigned to an ‘early evening meal group’ (EEM; 7:00-7:30pm) or a ‘late evening meal group’ (LEM; 10:30-11:00pm) for 12 weeks. 1 The EEM group did lose a little more weight, about 4.5 lbs, on average, than the LEM group (15 lbs vs.10.5 lbs), leading the authors to conclude that, “eating an earlier evening meal resulted in favorable changes in weight loss...

 

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Today, we are going to discuss the grapefruit diet, which is a rehash of the hollywood diet from the 1930s. So, I have brought along my own little starlight to help determine if claim is fact or fiction. The claim is that if you eat the grapefruit diet, then you will lose weight. There are three proposed mechanisms. 1. Meal-Replacement The original diet was something like half a grapefruit, a boiled egg and melba toast, as...

There are two types of ‘belly fat’. The type under our skin (subcutaneous), although maligned, likely holds little to no disease risk. The other type (visceral) hidden deep inside the belly holds high disease risk. It creeps into and around our organs, including our heart. Yikes. Studies have found that both exercise and dieting (typically restricting calories by 500 per day) help decrease both types of belly fat to about the same degree in adults classified...

The ‘blood-type’ diet is based on a popular book published in 1996, which has since sold over 7 million copies. 2,3 The idea is that our blood group reveals something about our ancestral dietary habits, and matching our current eating to those habits help reduce disease risk. Those with blood group O, the hunter, are advised to eat a high-animal protein diet, blood type A, the agrarian, a mostly vegetarian diet, type B, the nomad, should...

Could cockroach milk be our next superfood? More specifically, milk from Diplotera punctata or the Pacific Beetle Cockroach. Now, cockroaches do not have udders or nipples to milk each morning, so the study behind all the attention is referring to the milky substance that comes out of mother’s brood sac to feed her babies. In the egg, the babies get this nourishing milk that is rich in proteins called lipocalin-like milk proteins or Lili-Mip, which turn...

This video is recirculating, claiming that chocolate cake for breakfast could be good for us. The study cited from Syracuse, was the Maine-Syracuse study, and did NOT find that eating chocolate can improve memory and cognitive function. 1 There was no experiment. Rather, within a cross-section of older adults, the authors reported a mean z-score for two groups. Those who reported eating chocolate once per week were only 0.09 standard deviations above the mean, while those...

The concept of slow or fast dieting does not refer to how fast one eats, rather to the rate to which one loses weight from dieting. There is the more traditional thought if you can lose weight more slowly (a slow diet), you can keep it off more successfully that if you lose weight too quickly (a fast diet). However, proponents of “fast dieting” are now challenging this theory, claiming it is actually better than “slow...

The amino acid, asparagine, is thought to be “digested” by cancer cells to help metastasize or spread throughout the body. The study of all the recent headlines used mice, who were in-bred to lack immunity, and then injected with cancer cells. 2 The mice were fed a chow with either no, low or high amounts of asparagine. Spread of cancer to the lung was increased in mice on high-asparagine diet. Injecting an enzyme that blocked asparagine...