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The BMI test has long been seen as a misleading marker of our true health status, but a new study on “Fatty Muscle Fraction” may have superseded BMI when it comes to determining the state of our bodies and our prospects for longevity. The Body Mass Index has always been a crude calculation. It...

The Best Supplement for Heart Health? The occasional lone study suggests that fish oil doesn't do much to improve heart health, but a recent meta study trumps all the naysayers. Let’s dispense with the usual statistics about chronic heart failure (CHF) that precede nearly every article about...

The Right Dosage and Ratio of DHA/EPA Omega-3s Many fish oil supplements are underdosed and made only for women. Not this one. When T Nation and Biotest launched in 1998, most of our staff took fish oil. The benefits were clear, but we didn't love the products we were using. They were underdosed...

Burn 220 Extra Calories a Day A small amount of this healthy supplement raises athletes' resting energy expenditure rates by a surprisingly large amount. Fish oil was found to increase the resting energy expenditure of athletes by more than 10 percent. Taking fish oil helps athletes burn...

Are They Really Worth $300 a Month? The pharmaceutical industry makes a pretty good case for prescription fish oils... at least until you start to dig a bit. It must have really smoked their white, starched shorts. Practically the whole damn country was using fish oil supplements and all the...

Fatty Acids for Muscle, Strength, and Endurance A legal performance enhancer that's actually healthy? Yes. You may even be using it already, but probably not enough. Here's the science. The term "ergogenic aid" has gotten a bad rap. What's the first thing you think of when you hear it? Banned...

Burn 220 Extra Calories a Day A small amount of this healthy supplement raises athletes' resting energy expenditure rates by a surprisingly large amount. Fish oil was found to increase the resting energy expenditure of athletes by more than 10 percent. Taking fish oil helps athletes burn...

Fatty Acids for Muscle, Strength, and Endurance A legal performance enhancer that's actually healthy? Yes. You may even be using it already, but probably not enough. Here's the science. The term "ergogenic aid" has gotten a bad rap. What's the first thing you think of when you hear it? Banned...

"Look good naked," we sometimes forget that it doesn't much matter how good you look, naked or otherwise, if you're as daid as the mullet that's packed on ice and sitting on the fishmonger's cart. Neither is it much good if you always feel crummy because you have bad chemicals gumming up the...

The expression “food for thought” is quite a literal one if you really think about it. The nutrients in food are used to synthesize countless biomolecules that help your brain and body function properly. As such, nutrition should be a priority for protecting against cognitive decline, memory...

The expression “food for thought” is quite a literal one if you really think about it. The nutrients in food are used to synthesize countless biomolecules that help your brain and body function properly. As such, nutrition should be a priority for protecting against cognitive decline, memory...

WHAT EXACTLY IS A PROCESSED FOOD? Nutrition writer Michael Pollan has famously written, "Don't eat anything your great-great-great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food." That's a pretty good way to think about processed foods. Clearly, your great-great-great mee-maw would take one whiff of...

by Christina Heiser Fat often gets a bad rap. If you’ve dieted at some point in your life, chances are you’ve tried going low-fat—after all, low-fat was all the rage for a while there. Nowadays, however, we’ve updated our understanding of fats. We know that certain types of fat are actually good...

Omega-3, omega-6, and omega-9 fatty acids are all important dietary fats. They all have health benefits, but it’s important to get the right balance between them. An imbalance in your diet may contribute to a number of chronic diseases. Here’s a guide to omega-3, -6 and -9 fatty acids...

Nutritional science grows increasingly intricate when the context concerns bodybuilders and athletes looking to maximize muscle growth and enhance fat loss. The physiology behind macronutrients enable these processes is complex, to say the least. Nevertheless, it serves to benefit any level of...

If you have been weight lifting for a year or more and read magazines and the internet for information, you probably have come across the topic of inflammation. You have certain people in the industry promoting anti-inflammation for fat loss and muscle growth and other industry experts...

There are many schools of thought on nutrition, especially when it comes to strength and power athletes. Unfortunately there are no human studies on nutrition involving supraphyisiological doses of AAS making most "bodybuilding" and "powerlifting" diet advice anecdotal. If you've never...

Fish oil supplements have been around for decades. As research on the essentiality of the omega-3 fatty acids continues to grow, it’s safe to say the benefits of fish oil supplements are legion, ranging from things like enhancing skin tissue to improving cardiovascular health and even supporting...

Live for lipids By Daniel Rocha Lipids include triglycerides, phospholipids, and sterols such as cholesterol. Lipids dissolve in solvents like alcohol and acetone, but they are not soluble in water. The body uses fats and other lipids to provide and store energy, form and maintain cell...

Does supplementing with fish oil help with fat loss? And if so, just how much fat can you expect to lose by taking fish oil? Unless you’ve been living under a rock somewhere for the last several years, you’ve probably heard about the health benefits of eating fatty fish or taking fish oil...