Participants who slept for 5.5 hours lost 55
percent less body fat, and 60 percent more of their lean body mass than those who slept for longer.
The group who trained 30 minutes a day lost 83 percent more fat than the researchers had expected; the subjects who trained for an hour each day lost 20
percent less body fat than the researchers had calculated.
Not exact matches
It doesn't necessarily have the rich, heavy
body of regular peanut butter, owing to the fact that it has 90
percent less fat.
Infants who get
less than nine hours of sleep were 3.3 times more likely to become obese and also have 3.3
percent excess
body fat.
However, these standards don't account for differences in size (the average person is now taller and heavier),
body composition (
fat versus lean), age (older people have slower metabolisms), activity levels and gender: Women radiate as much as 35
percent less energy than the standard man.
The rats taking the supplement ate
less, and both baby and mother had a lower percentage of
body fat — 33
percent for mom and 30 per cent for newborn — compared to the rats that ate the same diet but with no supplement.
Although almonds contain about 55
percent fat, lead researcher Giusy Mandalari, a biologist, says that humans absorb
less than half of that largely because the oils in almonds are stored behind a tough cell wall that must be broken for our
bodies to absorb them.
Also, they had more
body fat and
less lean muscle, had a much greater
percent of depression as well as all types of heart disease.
The animals that had been given citrulline had 13
percent less fat and 9
percent more lean
body mass than the animals that had been given the mix of non-essential amino acids.
It usually — note: usually — means more muscular (which does not necessarily mean bigger muscles),
less fat around the breasts,
less body percent fat, high energy, etc..
The study found that people who consumed the highest amounts of whole grains had about 2.4
percent less total
body fat and 3.6
percent less abdominal
fat than those who ate the least.