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SLEEP WELL THE KEY TO NOT BE FAT

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Sleep is essential for the functioning of our brain, but also our whole body. Data accumulate on the link between lack of sleep and obesity, but also diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Good sleep seems more essential than ever! Obesity? And if it was related to poor sleep, insufficient sleep? The effects of sleep deprivation are well known: daytime sleepiness, decreased academic or work performance, impaired quality of life, depression, increased risk of accidents, etc. But today, new evidence is accumulating showing that sleep debt may also have a negative impact on metabolism and cardiovascular function. After analysis of all published studies on this subject, a dozen of them stand out and bring very convincing data. The main findings for the link between sleep and chronic disease. Sleep time and Obesity The reduction of sleep time is proportionally associated with obesity in adults. In children, this relationship is observed even for very small reductions in sleep time. Hence the ...

If Insulin Sensitivity is Key Whats the Key to Insulin Sensi tivity Artemisia Dracunculus Lixisenatide Calcium Bi carbonated Water True Promoters of Insulin Sensitivity

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Insulin sensitivity is a necessary pre- requisite for much more than a profane set of sixpack abs. You will probably have realized that the number of short-news like articles on the SuppVersity has been increasing as of late. The reasons for that are twofold: For one, its the fact that it pisses me off (sorry, but thats how it is) that all the interesting stuff I post on the SuppVersity Facebook Page disappears into an oblivion of which I can only hope that it is not Mark Zuckerbergs *** Secondly, I am currently working my regular job, doing some additional University stuff and working on another nutrition and exercise science related project and dont have the time to do the extensive research thats necessary to produce articles like part II of the "perfect frying oil" article, you may (rightly) already be waiting for. In other words: If you dont want me to switch to a twice or thrice (max) a week schedule, you will have to live with less in-depth articles like this - sorry!...