Very-low-carbohydrate diets and preservation of muscle mass
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Very-low-carbohydrate diets and preservation of muscle mass
Background I would like to compliment Noakes et al. on their wellcontrolled study comparing effects of different diets on body composition and cardiovascular risk [1]. The authors suggested that a very-low-carbohydrate diet (VLCARB) may not be associated with protein-sparing, because their dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) data indicated that both VLCARB and very-low-fat diet resulted in ...
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Richard D. Feinman, PhD, is Professor of Biochemistry at State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, co-editor-in-chief of the journal Nutrition & Metabolism, and Director of the Nutrition and Metabolism Society (www.nmsociety.org). Diabetes may be described as a disease of glucose intolerance: high blood glucose is both the characteristic indicator and the cause of complications. Th...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nutrition & Metabolism
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1743-7075
DOI: 10.1186/1743-7075-3-9