-16% Abdominal Fat on a Cornstarch Diet? No Problem If You Add 4 Teaspoons of Black Pepper to Your Meals!

Image 1: According to Wood et al. ( 1988 ) black pepper contains between 3-8% piperine. A teaspoon of black pepper would thus deliver have 6...

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Pot Belly and High Triglycerides Indicative of Low LDL & HDL Particle Size

A recent study by scientists from the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota ( Irving. 2011 ) found that the most reliable indicators of LDL & HDL pa...

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Another Good Reason to Take Creatine: Creatine Helps with Exercise Induced Arterial Stiffness

If there is one supplement out there on the fitness market that is really worth each cent you spend on it, it is probably creatine monohydra...

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Vitamin D: 1 Billion People Worldwide Are Vitamin D Deficient or Insufficient

Actually, I must say that I am surprised: It has been days, almost weeks since my last blogpost on Vitamin D. After all the individual findi...

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Time To Say Good Bye! Mr. Average 1975 is Out-Of-Date.

A recent article in Nature ( Later. 2010 ) emphasizes the need for a new "Reference Man" for men (and women). The authors studied...

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Nitrate Supplementation Lowers Blood Pressure and Exercise O2 Costs

The hype around creatine and amino acid nitrates already calmed down. For many costumers (me included) real world results could not keep up...

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Anti-Oxidant Supplements Beneficial - At least in Patients With Multiple Cardiovascular Risk Factors

Molecular structure of vitamin E ( HMBD v2.5 ) In the course of the last years studies on the beneficial effects of anti-oxidant supplements...

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