Issue #36 (October 2017)

• Interview: Kelsey Kinney, MS, RD
  Registered dietitian, blogger, and podcaster Kelsey Kinney shares her wealth of knowledge about how gut bacteria can impact digestive health, and discusses how the concept of functional medicine plays a role in her work.
• Interview: Brad Schoenfeld, PhD, CSCS
  Have questions about load’s effect on hypertrophy, supplements with the strongest evidence base, and effective weight loss strategies? Researcher and renowned body composition expert Brad Schoenfeld has answers.
• Lifting the weight of anxiety
  Aerobic exercise has been shown to be moderately effective for reducing anxiety. Does resistance training have similar benefits?
• Blood sugar and spice
  Cinnamon’s been used for medicinal purposes for millennia. Research from the past few decades suggests it may also be useful for controlling blood sugar. But is it?
• Can dieting actually suppress food craving?
  It makes sense that the body would signal the brain to crave certain nutrients during dieting, since overall nutrient intake is cut. The truth may be a little more complicated.
• Be the tortoise or the hare: it doesn’t matter for fat loss
  Interval training and moderate-intensity aerobic exercise can affect the body in different ways. But do these differences extend to fat loss?
• Antioxidants for the eyes: can they prevent or delay age-related macular degeneration?
  AMD is a major cause of vision loss, and may be tied to the high amount of oxidative stress the eyes undergo. Some antioxidants could help delay its progression.
• Something smells fishy: is your fish oil oxidized?
  Previous research found that a lot of fish oil being sold in New Zealand was subpar. Newer research out of Australia says otherwise.

Researchers

Margaret Wertheim, M.S., RD; Alex Leaf, M.S.; Courtney Silverthorn, PhD; Zach Bohannan, M.S.; Anders Nedergaard, Ph.D.; Jeff Rothschild, M.Sc., RD; Greg Palcziewski, PhD; James Graham, PhD

Editors

Gregory Lopez, MA, PharmD; Pablo Sanchez Soria, PhD; Kamal Patel, MBA, MPH, PhD(c)

Reviewers

Stephan Guyenet, PhD; Adel Moussa, PhD(c); Arya Sharma, PhD, MD; Natalie Muth, MD, MPH, RD; Sarah Ballantyne, PhD; Katherine Rizzone, MD; Mark Kern, PhD, RD; Gillian Mandich, PhD(c)

Copy Editor

Dmitri Barvinok

Infographics

Antonius Khengdro & Calla Lee