Protein

BCAA Supplementation – Timing and Dosage

08.09.2012 ARTICLES
BCAA before and after exercise

Introduction to BCAA, MAA and EAA So that you don’t get too lost with the abbreviations or get confused by the relevance of one group of amino acids to another we will be using the following terms. When you see mixed amino acids (MAA) this means all of the amino acids; within this are the [...]

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Research Update: Low carbohydrate-high protein diets are associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease

02.07.2012 ARTICLES
Heart health cardiovascular disease

Guest Article by Martin MacDonald Are you scared after reading that blog title? Are you worried that I’ve suddenly realised that the EatWell Plate is in fact great? Fear not, nothing has changed its just another crappy study getting infinitely more media attention than it deserves. If you’ve not heard about it yet there was [...]

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Nutrition Myth Busting Videos

02.07.2012 ARTICLES
Myth Busting Videos

Videos by Martin MacDonald Over the last few months, Total Greek Yoghurt have been releasing a series of nutrition and diet myth busting videos that we filmed back in January 2012. I got to pick the topics and interestingly a lot of what I am talking about has come up in the recent BBC Documentay [...]

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Research Update: Low carb diet improves glycemic control compared with advice to follow a low-fat diet

09.06.2012 ARTICLES
Low Fat

So, after my most recent post on Facebook that almost got the desired 70 likes over the long weekend, here is the study I mentioned. This is an interesting study as it looks at real world situations with "few resources allocated for achieving compliance, so that clinical use of the protocol would be realistic for [...]

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Research Update: How to make fat look bad

29.01.2012 ARTICLES
Bat fat

This is a topic that was covered at the Mac-Nutrition Conference 2011 and we’re wondering whether we might write an entire article series on this because quite frankly we’re not sure whether researchers are doing it on purpose or whether studies like this are actually written by PhD students with a lack of common sense [...]

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Research Update: An amazing study on intakes of carbohydrate, protein and fat

26.01.2012 ARTICLES
Eat Well Plate STOP

A study on intakes of carbohydrate, protein and fat, published just 4 days ago has come out and has shown some interesting results… perhaps ground breaking if you still believe the food pyramid/eat well plate is anything to go by, but interesting to the rest of us none the less. I have been fortunate enough [...]

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Nitrogen Balance and Muscle Gain

13.01.2012 Muscle Gain
Gain Muscle 2

Guest article by Martin MacDonald WHY NITROGEN? For the last couple of years, an exam question I have set my undergraduates is ‘How do proteins differ chemically from lipids and carbohydrates?’ The answer is: While carbohydrates and fat contain Carbon, Hydrogen and Oxygen, proteins also contain nitrogen. For this reason, we can use measures of [...]

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