Branched chain amino acids, or BCAAs, are synonymous with the amino acids leucine, isoleucine, and valine. These are essential amino acids, of which there are 9. Essential amino acids are found in pretty much any source of protein or protein complement. This includes eggs, soy, animal flesh, dairy protein (casein and whey), beans, nuts, seeds,
According to research, drinking moderately may reduce risk of disease and mortality. This week, it is linked to a reduced risk of heart failure. Not drinking or drinking too much is supposed to be worse than moderate drinking in terms of risk of disease. This is often shown in association studies (observational studies). Not cause and
Last week I discussed why you shouldn’t freak out about the latest news about artificial sweeteners. This week, I will give a bit more information on the study, now that I have obtained a full-text copy of it from professional resources. Specifically, I will let you how much the humans were consuming and real food
Edit 9/25/14: I have received a full-text copy of the study and made a follow-up blog post to this one on the human intervention part of this study as well as quantified the amounts of saccharin you must eat to experience the effects the humans achieved in the study. One of this week’s catchy nutrition-related
A number of studies released in the past year1,2,3 have investigated the effects of various processed milk proteins such as casein and whey on muscle protein synthesis after resistance training. One of these studies (1) found that a combination of the three proteins, whey, soy, and casein is just as effective as whey at increasing amino
The answer to this question depends on what your country considers “butter.” For a product in the US, butter has to have 80% butterfat, whereas in the UK butter has to have 85% butterfat, with the rest being milk proteins and water. If the butterfat is clarified into 100% of the product sold, such as
