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Apple ingredient keeps muscles strong
- zszugyi 15y agoWhat about strength training, which is already proven to work in humans?
- chuhnk 15y agoThe study is based on dietary factors, there are plenty others out there focused on strength and hypertrophy training. Obviously diet and exercise go hand in hand in order to reduce muscle wasting as a result of ageing.
- spiralganglion 15y agoThe presence of "Apple" in the title caught my eye... then the realization set in. I'd love to argue that this is linkbait, even though there's no reasonable reason it should be. WWDC fever.
- StavrosK 15y agoI was about to say, enough with the apple fanboyism already! Then I read the article.
- blendergasket 15y agoYeah, I was going to ask if I was the only one who thought this was some weird Steve Jobs metaphor. I guess not.
- miked 15y ago>> If so, they don't yet know whether ursolic acid at levels that might be consumed as part of a normal diet might or might not be enough. That last sentence may be the most important one for now. Resveratrol has had some interesting health benefit data published, but positive results were correlated to much larger quantities than one could get by just drinking red wine. But if ursolic acid can be cheaply synthesized and proven safe in clinically beneficial quantities, this could be huge. Note that the article focused on muscle wasting and only mentioned in passing that it lowered blood glucose and triglyceride levels and boosted insulin signaling. Talk about burying the lede.
- wvl 15y agoEveryone who reads an article in the press about health and nutrition should be required to watch this video, Science for Smart People -- a presentation by Tom Naughton, who wrote and directed the movie "Fat Head". It is a brilliant deconstruction of bad science and the bad journalists that report the bad science, in the context of health and nutrition. One of many points he makes is the ridiculousness of reporting on miraculous health claims that have only been shown to work on rodents. The video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1RXvBveht0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1RXvBveht0 And, I just submitted it to HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2635326 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2635326
- jrockway 15y agoWhy is the focus on apple peels, specifically? Ursolic acid is also in rosemary and oregano, which have been available as dietary supplements for quite a while.
- thret 15y agoWell, if it is in oregano then it's in every pizza base. Perhaps junk-fooders are okay.
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- quattrofan 15y agoThat's great, but you can prevent nearly all of the degeneration of ageing - especially muscle wastage - by regular exercise and strength training.