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Sunday, April 17, 2016

Can MCTs Help You Lose Weight Yes They Can! Latest Meta Analysis Says MCTs Safe But Not Super Effective

Yes, coconut oil does contain MCTs, but it is not as some people believe pure MCT. Only ~50% of the fat in coconut oil is actually in MCT form. If you want pure MCTs you have to resort to specific MCT supplements / oils.
The mechanisms by which medium-chain triglycerides (MCTs) may help you to lose fat are manifold. They are not only hard to store for your body. They also counteract fat deposition in adipocytes by increasing thermogenesis and satiety.

MCTs contain 8 to 12 carbon atoms and include caprylic acid (C8:0, octanoic acid), capric acid (C10:0, decanoic acid), and lauric acid (C12:0, dodecanoic acid). Foods high in MCTs include coconut oil (58%), palm kernel oil (54%), desiccated coconut (37%), and raw coconut meat (19% of total energy) (USDA). Average intakes of 1.35 g/day (0.7% of total energy intake | USDA. 2008) MCTs have been reported in the United States and 0.2 g/day in Japan | Kasai. 2003).
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MCT is cleaved into glycerol and medium-chain fatty acids in the gut lumen.5 The medium chain length makes a smaller, more soluble molecule compared with a longchain fatty acid, giving it a preferential absorption and metabolic route in the body. As the authors of the latest meta-analysis of the effects of MCTs on body weight say:
"[t]his physicochemical nature of medium-chain fatty acids allows them to pass into the portal vein on route to the liver to be rapidly metabolized via b oxidation with no requirement of reesterification in intestinal cells, incorporation into chylomicrons, or the rate limiting enzyme carnitine acyltransferase for intramitochondrial transport. In comparison, long-chain fatty acids have a slower route, being re-esterified in the small intestine and transported by chylomicrons via the lymphatic and vascular system before being oxidized for energy or stored. Thus, rapid metabolism of MCTs reduces their opportunity of adipose tissue uptake." (Mumme. 2015)
Several human intervention studies have been conducted investigating the weight-reducing potential of MCT, with mixed results. In their latest meta-analysis, Mumme et al. set out to separate the wheat from the chaff in order to answer the question whether MCTs, specifically C8:0 and C10:0, provide significant weight loss benefits and/or trigger changes in body composition compared to "regular" long-chain fatty acids (LCT).
Figure 1: Meta-analysis for changes in body weight (in kilograms) in randomized control trials that compared dietary medium-chain triglycerides (MCTs) with a longer-chain triglyceride (control) shows a favorable effect of MCT intervention on body weight. *Oleic acid as control. **Myristic acid as control. #Body mass index < 23. ##Body mass index > 23. IV inverse variance. SD standard deviation (Mumme. 2015).
The researchers primary outcome measures were body mass, waist and hip circumference, total body fat, and subcutaneous and visceral fat. Secondary outcomes were blood lipids, including triglycerides (TG), total cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, and LDL cholesterol. Of the latter the foremost values are those that are of greatest interest and among them the body mass shows a measurable, albeit not earth-shattering reduction in almost all trials. Only the in the 2001 study by Matsuo et al. there was an increase in body weight in response to an MCT supplement that contained almost no medium chain triglycerides.
No, you wont lose slabs of body fat by adding MCTs to your diet! Unless, the satiety effect of MCTs makes you eat less on other meals, you are going to gain body fat by adding MCTs to your diet, because you are effectively increasing the total amount of energy in your diet - Dont be stupid.
Figure 2: Meta-analysis for changes in total body fat, total subcutaneous fat, and visceral fat (Mumme. 2015).
In view of the fact that the most relevant obesity parameters, i.e. the waist and hip circumferences and body fat percentages (Figure 2) dropped in all studies that investigated this parameter and considering the fact that there were no significant deterioration - rather improvements - in blood lipids, it appears warranted to assume that the replacement (!), but not the addition, of 2g/day MCTs (1% of the energy) to 54 g/day MCTs (20% of the total energy intake)  over a duration of 4 to 16 weeks leads to measurable and potentially health relevant weight loss, compared to bacon, butter & co, i.e. regular long chain fatty acids.
Bottom line: With an average weight loss of 0.51 kg (range 0.80 to 0.23 kg) over an average 10-week period, the weight loss may be marginal. In conjunction with similarly marginal, but measurable reductions in waist and hip circumferences, total body fat, subcutaneous fat, and visceral fat and in the absence of significant changes in blood lipids, even this amount of weight may be health relevant. Hamman,et al. were after all able to show that even marginal reductions in body weight (1kg) are associated with a 16% reduced type II diabetes risk in - albeit only in obese subjects (Hamman. 2006).

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What MCTs are not, though, is the weight loss wonder as some people appear to believe they were. If you dont stop stuffing yourself with long-chain fatty acids and replace the latter with MCTs in your diet its unlikely that you are going to see any results.

Since the benefits also appear to decline with baseline body weight, buying tons of expensive and by no means delicious MCTs is probably a useless undertaking for 95% of the SuppVersity readers | Comment on Facebook.
References:
  • DeLany, James P., et al. "Differential oxidation of individual dietary fatty acids in humans." The American journal of clinical nutrition 72.4 (2000): 905-911.
  • Hamman, Richard F., et al. "Effect of weight loss with lifestyle intervention on risk of diabetes." Diabetes care 29.9 (2006): 2102-2107.
  • Kasai, Michio, et al. "Effect of dietary medium-and long-chain triacylglycerols (MLCT) on accumulation of body fat in healthy humans." Asia Pacific journal of clinical nutrition 12.2 (2003): 151-160.
  • Mumme et al. "Effects of Medium-Chain Triglycerides on Weight Loss and Body Composition: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials." EAT RIGHT - Research Review (2015).
  • US Department of Agriculture. Nutrient Intakes From Food: Mean Amounts Counsumed per Individual, One Day, 2005-2006. Washington, DC: US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service; 2008.


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Monday, March 28, 2016

Specifications and Pricing HP Lenovo S960 Vibe X Latest

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Vibe X Lenovo S960 is the latest breakthrough mobile phones that have been released by the leading vendors in the fields of technology , Lenovo his company . By removing the X Vibe is a high specification which has great hope Lenovo can electrify the world of smartphones . First introduced in September 2013 and then , the new 2014 is actually released and has been circulated around the world , including Indonesia . With the price of Lenovos Vibe X is high enough , but the company already provide high quality and technology class , so do not say perluh expensive .

Specifications Lenovo Vibe X the kitchen spur MT6589TCPU MTK processor Quad -core 1.5 GHz of performance that will run the Android operating system 4.2 Jelly Bean . 2GB of RAM memory and a processor will further optimize its performance as well . In addition , the use of which uses a PowerVR SGX544MP2 grapichnya more provide high image quality and brighter . What else screen that is given to the mobile smartphone is Lenovo Vibe X 5 inches .

With such a high specification , lenovo vibe x fiture certainly can not say too lowly . Lenovo Vibe X is in the Arm for 13MP main camera , perfect for those who are fond of hunting pictures every momenmu . For its second camera is also not to be outdone , the size of the 5MP camera body attached to the two front upper corner . With a camera that can produce images called HD is more stable compared to other smartphones . Lenovo was not to be outdone with products from other vendors .
Specifications and Pricing HP Lenovo Vibe X S960

In addition , there is also GPS , image viewer , MP3 player , video player and many advantages of this x lenovo vibe . Well glance review, for full specs can see below along with the price of Lenovo vibe x :

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Specifications Lenovo Vibe X

General 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network HSDPA 850 / 1900
HSDPA 900 / 2100
SIM Micro-SIM
Announced 2013, September
Status Available. Released 2013, December
Body Dimensions 144 x 74 x 6.9 mm (5.67 x 2.91 x 0.27 in)
Weight 121 g (4.27 oz)
Display Type IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size 1080 x 1920 pixels, 5.0 inches (~441 ppi pixel density)
Multitouch Yes
Protection Corning Gorilla Glass 3
Sound Alert types Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
Loudspeaker Yes
3.5mm jack Yes
Memory Card slot No
Internal 16/32 GB, 2 GB RAM
Data GPRS Yes
EDGE Yes
Speed HSDPA, 21 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps
WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi hotspot
Bluetooth Yes, v3.0 with A2DP
USB Yes, microUSB v2.0, USB On-the-go
Camera Primary 13 MP, 4128 x 3096 pixels, autofocus, LED flash
Features Geo-tagging, touch focus, face detection
Video Yes, 1080p@30fps
Secondary Yes, 5 MP
Features OS Android OS, v4.2 (Jelly Bean)
Chipset Mediatek MT6589T
CPU Quad-core 1.5 GHz Cortex A7
GPU PowerVR SGX544MP2
Sensors Accelerometer, proximity, compass
Messaging SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM, RSS
Browser HTML5
Radio FM radio
GPS Yes, with A-GPS support
Java Yes, via Java MIDP emulator
Colors Black/Silver
- SNS integration

- Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic

- MP4/WMV/H.264/H.263 player

- MP3/WAV/WMA/eAAC+ player

- Organizer

- Image/video editor

- Document viewer

- Google Search, Maps, Gmail,

YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk

- Voice memo/dial

- Predictive text input
Battery Non-removable Li-Po 2000 mAh battery
Stand-by Up to 288 h
Talk time Up to 16 h
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Wednesday, January 20, 2016

The Latest Gut Microbiome Modulators Beneficial Effects of Cacao Negative Effects of Acidic Water and Preliminary Evidence of the Negative Impact of Gluten Whole Grains

Pancakes al cacao & your gut: Bad grains and good cacao?
There is an increasing amount of interesting scientific publications on the role of the gut microbiome in health and disease. Unfortunately, the evidence on what exactly influences the number and types of bacteria in our gut in a beneficial way and even what exactly a "beneficial way" actually is, is yet largely unknown.

In todays installment of the SuppVersity Short News, I am going to take a closer look at a selection of recent studies that may shed at least some light at the previously mentioned questions.
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  • Cacao as a gut microbiome modulator - The first study were going to look at deals with cacao. Cacao and its effect on the gut microbiome. In said study, 3-week-old Wistar and Brown Norway rats were fed, for 4 weeks, either a standard diet or the following three isoenergetic diets containing increasing proportions of cocoa flavonoids from different sources: one with 0·2 % polyphenols (from conventional defatted cocoa), and two others with 0·4 and 0·8 % polyphenols (from non-fermented cocoa, very rich in polyphenols).

    Only the regular theobromine containing cacao did also reduce the weight gain in the three-week study (Massot-Cladera. 2014).
    What the scientist found, when they analyzed the serum Ig concentrations, faecal IgA levels, microbiota composition and IgA-coating bacterial proportion at the end of the study and compared them to those at the beginning was a significant beneficial effect on the mucosal IgA levels and microbiota composition from all supplements. The 0.2 % cacao diet which contained a higher proportion of theobromine and fibre, however, had a more profound impact on the aforementioned parameters - in spite of the fact that there was less cacao in the diet. Obviously, the caffeine-like bitter alkaloid from cacao is contributes to the beneficial effects of cacao in a similar way as the polyphenols.

    As the body weight data in Figure 1 shows, the theobromine containing conventional cacao was also the only one that was able to reduce the diet induced weight gain in the rats. This could, but does not necessarily have to be related to the higher levels of Bacteroides, Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus bacteria in the gut of the rodents that received the "cheap" conventional cacao.
  • Acidic water triggers type I diabetes - probably by modulating the gut microbiome - No, I am not trying to advertise bicarbonate, here. I am just reporting the results of a recent study from the Medical University of South Carolina which found that a stain of mice thats particularly susceptible to type I diabetes developed insulitis and hyperglycemia rapidly, only when the mice were maintained on acidic pH water (AW).

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    The scientists also observed that this effect could be countered by fecal transplants and was obviously triggered by changes in the diversity of the gut flora that occurred, when the pH of drinking water was in the acidic range and were probably related to the proinflammatory cytokine response in the intestinal mucosa.

    As you as a SuppVersity reader know previous studies in humans have already shown that a "High Dietary Acid Load Doubles Risk of Type II Diabetes in Lean Individuals!" (read more) - Who knows, this could also be related to the effect on the gut microbiome!?
  • Gluten and whole grains as modulators of the gut microbome - In two recent randomized cross-over trials, researchers from the University of Copenhagen determined the impact of dietary gluten or whole grains on the gut microbiome and host metabolic health.

    What the researchers found was what the recent backlash against gluten and "healthy" whole grains on the internet would suggest the already overweight "[p]articipants had slightly elevated fasting glucose levels and increased waist circumference" (Ibrügger. 2014).
    Table 1: Overview of the products used in the randomized controlled cross-over trials (Ibrügger. 2014)
    Whether thats related to the effects on the gut microbome is unfortunately something I cant tell you, yet. Why? Well, the currently available paper refers to a future publication that would outline the detailed results. All I can tell you now is that the study used the products listed in Table 1 and, more importantly, that it is its high statistical power, which, due to the large sample size and the crossover design, "allows detecting even small diffrences in the outcome variables" (Ibrügger. 2014).
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Bottom line: Its a pity that we still cant tell for sure what the "optimal" gut microbiome looks like. Moreover, the currently available scientific evidence suggests that what is considered "optimal" may well depend on your type of diet and / or your metabolic health.

Against that background the previously presented results offer nothing but a brief glimpse at what may become one of the hottest topics in obesity and diabetes prevention in the future. At the moment, though, all the results and any recommendations that are based on these results have to be considered preliminary. And this is also true for the gluten + whole grain study of which you will certainly read again, here at the SuppVersity | Comment on Facebook!
References:
  • Ibrügger, S., et al. "Two Randomized Cross-Over Trials Assessing the Impact of Dietary Gluten or Wholegrain on the Gut Microbiome and Host Metabolic Health." J Clin Trials 4.178 (2014): 2167-0870.
  • Massot-Cladera, Malen, et al. "Impact of cocoa polyphenol extracts on the immune system and microbiota in two strains of young rats." British Journal of Nutrition 112.12 (2014): 1944-1954.
  • Sofi, M. Hanief, et al. "pH of drinking water influences the composition of gut microbiome and type 1 diabetes incidence." Diabetes 63.2 (2014): 632-644.


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    Tuesday, January 5, 2016

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