Popeye's right about spinach

boozich

5-8-2008 3:59 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/eee40c0d-9a57-460a-96db-a0af03fe27a9/1A2C51DA-576A-4EB8-825F-38F0A64FF4AB/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/mg19826554.400?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=mg19826554.400" href="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/mg19826554.400?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=mg19826554.400" style="font-size: 11px;">www.newscientist.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/mg19826554.400?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=mg19826554.400"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.newscientist.com/img/C1BD4BAE-C473-4D67-9517-37604D75FF38" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/mg19826554.400?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=mg19826554.400">Popeye may have been on to something. A steroid found in leafy greens ramps up protein synthesis in muscles.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/mg19826554.400?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=mg19826554.400">extracted phytoecdysteroids from spinach</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/mg19826554.400?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=mg19826554.400">on samples of cultured human muscle, it <A target="nsarticle" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jf073059z">sped up growth by 20 per cent</A>. Rats were also slightly stronger after a month of injections of the extract </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/mg19826554.400?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=mg19826554.400">Unfortunately, you would need to eat more than a kilogram of spinach every day to gain equivalent amounts of the steroid.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1A2C51DA-576A-4EB8-825F-38F0A64FF4AB/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

boozich says:

unfortunately you'd spend most of the day on the loo!!

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