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How much dietary protein can you store in muscle? About 15 g/d if you are a gifted bodybuilder
Let us say you are one of the gifted few who are able to put on 1 lb of pure muscle per month, or 12 lbs per year, by combining strength tra...
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Protein powders before fasted weight training? Here is a more natural and cheaper alternative
The idea that protein powders should be consumed prior to weight training has been around for a while, and is very popular among bodybuilder...
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Dried mussels: A little plate with 160 g of protein (plus some comments on high-protein low-carbohydrate dieting)
Many hunter-gatherer groups employed various methods of drying to preserve meats. Drying also increases significantly the protein content ...
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Low bone mineral content in older Eskimos: Meat-eating or shrinking?
Mazess & Mather (1974) is probably the most widely cited article summarizing evidence that bone mineral content in older North Alaskan E...
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Insulin responses to foods rich in carbohydrates and protein
Insulin is often presented as a hormone that is at the core of the diseases of civilization, particularly because of the insulin response el...
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Dried meat: Homemade beef jerky
You can dry many types of meat, including beef, pork, goat, deer, and even some types of seafood, such as mussels. Drying meat tends to si...
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The China Study II: How gender takes us to the elusive and deadly factor X
The graph below shows the mortality in the 35-69 and 70-79 age ranges for men and women for the China Study II dataset. I discussed other re...
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Amino acids in skeletal muscle: Are protein supplements as good as advertised?
When protein-rich foods, like meat, are ingested they are first broken down into peptides through digestion. As digestion continues, peptide...
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The China Study II: Gender, mortality, and the mysterious factor X
WarpPLS and HealthCorrelator for Excel were used to do the analyses below. For other China Study analyses, many using WarpPLS as well as H...
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Another kind of meatza: Ham, salami and cheese
A few years ago I wrote about a meatza made with lean ground beef and bison ( ). This post is about another kind of meatza, one that takes...
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The China Study II: Animal protein, wheat, and mortality … there is something odd here!
WarpPLS and HealthCorrelator for Excel were used in the analyses below. For other China Study analyses, many using WarpPLS and HealthCorre...
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Book review: Perfect Health Diet
Perfect Health Diet is a book that one should own. It is not the type of book that you can get from your local library and just do a quick ...
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Gaining muscle and losing fat at the same time: A more customized approach based on strength training and calorie intake variation
In the two last posts I discussed the idea of gaining muscle and losing fat at the same time ( ) ( ). This post outlines one approach to mak...
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