YOU want to start living a healthier lifestyle. You start buying more greens and less processed food, and sign up for a gym. You might think to yourself, since you're aiming to lose weight, you start exercising without eating anything, so your body would be able to burn more fat.
Latest rice protein study shows ingredient as viable as whey for strength training
The research was published recently in the
Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition. It was performed by a group of researchers that includes Dr Ralf Jäger, PhD, of the Milwaukee, WI-based consulting firm Increnovo LLC.
Whey built up big evidence lead
Whey protein dominates the sports nutrition category. The protein’s fast absorption profile first excited the interest of sports nutrition researchers, leading to studies looking at whether quick absorption would lead to greater gains in muscle protein synthesis.
This has led whey having a much bigger research portfolio than other proteins that have been isolated for use in sports nutrition products. For example, in an ISSN position paper on protein and exercise, a search on ‘whey’ brings up 135 uses of that term. Substituting ‘rice’ as a search term brings up nine instances.