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Fit Smart JORGE CRUISE
Milk can boost
your muscle mass
Recent research shows that milk
really does do a body good—espe
cially right after a hard workout.
In a study that appeared in the
American Journal of Clinical Nu
trition, young men who drank fat
free milk after exercising gained
nearly 40% more muscle mass than
those who drank a soy beverage
and gained more than 60% more
muscle mass than those who con
sumed a sweetened sports drink.
Plus, the milk drinkers lost more
body fat in a 12-week period
nearly four times more than the
soy-drinking group and 60% more
than those who had sports drinks.
“This simultaneous gain in mus
cle and loss of fat is a pretty power
ful combination,” says Stuart M.
Phillips, a professor at McMaster
University in Ontario and the lead
author of the study.
“Milk contains two types of pro
teins, whey and casein, that are the
highest-quality proteins known,”
Phillips says. “They contain all of
the essential amino
acids, the necessary
building blocks of
proteins in our bod-
ies. Whey contains
one called leu-
MILK '
CONTAINS
THE
HIGHEST
QUALITY
PROTEINS.
cine, which may
be a key trig
ger for the
synthesis of
new muscle
: proteins.”
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Green tea for the brain
A chemical in green tea may bring
dying brain cells back to life, say
Israeli investigators. They showed
that EGCG (epigalloeatechin gal
late), green tea’s main antioxidant,
revived animal neurons resembling
those killed by Parkinson’s disease.
Adding small amounts of EGCG to
dying brain cells made them bounce
back; they became healthier and
grew new dendrites (nerve append
ages that carry messages from cell
to cell).
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safe in high doses, but the Israeli re
searchers advise drinking no more
than five or six cups of green tea daily.
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Steve Dale. Kenneth C. Davis,
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