If you want to ease the effects of fatty food on your waistline, it might pay to put the red wine to one side and wash your meals down with green tea. A compound in the drink, epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG), significantly slows down weight gain associated with a high-fat diet, a study found. Obese mice on [...]

While there are a few men out there who just look at a weight and put on muscle, for most men, gaining muscle mass means working hard. Whether genetics have been working against you since birth or you simply don’t have the anabolic environment in your body naturally, if you have trouble putting on muscle, [...]

Maybe the biggest barrier to working out is time. Barrier, challenge, excuse? So fitness trainers hate to see anyone frittering away precious workout periods or filling them with less-than-effective exercises. Actually, it makes them crazy. We asked a few trainers to point out things they see in the workout world that they re…

A drug that can give advanced prostate cancer sufferers an extra two months to live has been rejected by the NHS’s rationing body, just days after experts said it was “futile” to keep giving chemotherapy to the terminally ill. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) said that the medicine, calle…

New research in the FASEB Journal suggests that rats fed homobrassinolide, found in the mustard plant, produced an anabolic effect, and increased appetite and muscle mass, as well as the number and size of muscle fibers Bethesda, MD—If you are looking to lean out, add muscle mass, and get ripped, a new research report publi…