Exercise in Moderation, Not in Excess to Prevent ... - Diets in Review

In all dietary and fitness pursuits, moderation is key. Socrates put the concept of practicing moderation into our consciousness 2,500 years ago when he proclaimed, ?Everything in moderation, nothing in excess.?

One hundred years ago, Oscar Wilde blew the lid off the whole thing when he said, ?Everything in moderation, including moderation.?

But Socrates and Wilde didn?t live in a polarizing world of both obesity and extreme exercise. We live in a dangerously unhealthy society, and with the recent release of studies condemning grueling exercise, it?s important to strike a healthy balance.

Endurance athletes?the people who compete in triathlons, Ironman events, and marathons?are an intense bunch. They continually push their bodies to the brink of exhaustion, and then keep running. The small community of endurance athletes around the world are an understandably prideful group, and they feed off the narcotic high of extreme athletic accomplishment. So anyone who introduces a study claiming to have found damning evidence against radical fitness better have a hell of a case.

Various new research shows that there is such a thing as ?over exercise,? and it can lead to many external and internal damages. In regards to heart health and fitness, cardiac electrophysiologist John Mandrola told the Wall Street Journal, ?Heart disease comes from inflammation and if you?re constantly, chronically inflaming yourself, never letting your body heal, why wouldn?t there be a relationship between over exercise and heart disease?? Contradictions to this school of thought abound, as running and exercise science experts continue to champion the health benefits of incessant exercise.

Last summer, Geralyn Coopersmith?national director of the Equinox Fitness Training Institute?claimed that ?exercise addiction? is becoming an epidemic, and those afflicted are forced to seek professional help from psychologists and counselors. The body is more prone to injury after periods of excessive exercise and can negatively impact a person?s mood.

In 2009, a Time magazine cover story implied that humans might not even need exercise to lose weight, claiming that some moderate movement throughout the day is the best way to keep weight off. Our Neolithic ancestors were a fit looking bunch, mainly due to the fact that their livelihood required constant motion to survive, a practice we modern humans should imitate.

Not all endurance athletes are maladjusted junkies, and our obese society doesn?t need to hear that exercise is bad. Exercise still has a plethora of benefits?from improving mood to aiding in sleep?and they should not be discounted. The underlying message of it all harkens back to the moderation proverb?too much of anything is bad.

Don?t drive your mind and body insane with obsessive exercise, but stay active and maintain a balanced lifestyle on all fronts. There are so many ways to burn calories while giving your body the fitness tune up it desperately needs. So get active in a healthy way, and make sure to love the way you move.

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Afghan security rescues Red Cross staff

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ? A senior Afghan official says security forces have rescued seven foreigners working for the International Red Cross after an hour-long gun battle with insurgents at a guest house in the eastern city of Jalalabad.

Deputy provincial police chief Masoum Khan Hashimi says the three women and four men are now safe. He says one of the men was lightly wounded.

He says an Afghan security guard was killed after one of the militants detonated a suicide vest at building's gate at the beginning of Wednesday's attack.

He says security forces they have killed at least two or three insurgents who made it inside the guest house. The security forces are searching surrounding buildings for any surviving attackers.

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Faint Portraits of First Galaxies Shed Light on Cosmic Dawn

The Hubble Space Telescope is giving astronomers a glimpse into the universe's early tumultuous era of galaxy formation

By Ron Cowen and Nature magazine

The Hubble Ultra-Deep Field shows galaxies as they were when the Universe was young. Those with the highest estimated redshifts (numbers and insets) were born more than 13 billion years ago, soon after the Big Bang. Image: NASA, ESA, R. Ellis (Caltech), UDF 2012 Team

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For one sleepless week in early September 2009, Garth Illingworth and his team had the early Universe all to themselves. At NASA's request, Illingworth, Rychard Bouwens and Pascal Oesch had just spent the previous week staring into their computer screens at the University of California, Santa Cruz, scanning through hundreds of black-and-white portraits of faint galaxies recorded in a multi-day time exposure by a newly installed infrared camera on the Hubble Space Telescope. NASA simply wanted the three astronomers to preview the images and make sure that the camera was working correctly, before the agency released the data more widely.

But Illingworth, Bouwens and Oesch were hoping that they would find more ? that at least some of those smudges of light would prove to be among the first galaxies to form in the Universe, less than 1 billion years after the Big Bang. Even a faint glimpse of such objects could provide fresh insights into some of the biggest questions in cosmology, ranging from the nature of the first stars to the tumultuous beginnings of galaxy formation.

That week, the astronomers began to focus on two dozen tiny candidate images ? each so dim and grainy that they might easily be noise in the camera's digital sensors. But as their analysis proceeded, it became clear that these patches of light had the right color, appearing only in the camera's reddest filters ? exactly what would be expected of newborn galaxies seen at a very great distance and very high redshift. And when the three colleagues started digitally adding together exposures of each candidate, says Illingworth, ?suddenly there they were? ? fuzzy, but undeniable images of galaxies. ?That week in September was one of the most exciting times of my career!?

By the week's end, he, Bouwens and Oesch had posted two draft papers to the arXiv preprint server, detailing their first-ever collection of more than 20 galaxies from the age of galaxy formation, some 13 billion years ago, when the cosmos was only 600 million to 800 million years old. Since then, other researchers have made further observations of the same small patch of sky, known as the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field (HUDF), and four other larger regions. They have expanded that initial roster to some 1,400 young galaxies, from the same era.

Illustration: Nik Spencer; Sources: NASA/WMAP Science Team; R. Ellis (Caltech)

The data from this growing catalogue are already hinting at a still-unseen time ? an infant Universe thronged with countless small galaxies and lit by primordial stars so massive that they burned out and blew up in a cosmic eye-blink. And a new generation of instruments promises to bring that era into clear view. They include the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) of radio telescopes in Chile, which is already beginning such observations; and Hubble's successor, the infrared James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which is set for launch in late 2018.

It's a heady time for early-Universe astronomers, says cosmologist Avi Loeb of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ?We're looking at our origins,? he says. ?The first galaxies were the building blocks of the Milky Way, and the desire to understand them is a search for our roots.?

Deep background
Over the past few decades, observers have developed a general storyline describing how galaxies formed (see 'Dawn's early light'). Astronomers know, for example, that the raw material was a hot, ionized plasma of hydrogen and helium that emerged from the Big Bang, then rapidly cooled as the Universe expanded. Once its temperature had fallen far enough, about 370,000 years after the Big Bang, protons and electrons combined to make neutral atoms and created a light-absorbing haze that plunged the Universe into a cosmic 'dark ages'.

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'Arrested Development': The 5 best things about the new season

The return of ?Arrested Development,? the cult comedy brought back to life as an exclusive series on Netflix, has many fans jumping for joy. After binge-watching the 15-episode offering, which was released at 3 a.m. EDT on May 26, here are the five best things about season four of ?the story of a family whose future was abruptly cancelled.?

- Colby Bermel

1. The fact it?s even back

When the show?s first broadcaster, Fox, pulled the plug in 2006 due to low ratings and insufficient advertiser funding, many fans were disappointed. ?Arrested Development? creator Mitchell Hurwitz put so much effort into creating a comedic universe of recurring jokes, brilliant wordplay, and general shenanigans. Even though the show won six Emmys, it was still axed. But as the series gained popularity through word-of-mouth and DVD sales, Netflix fulfilled the hopes and dreams of a fanbase when Ted Sarandos, the video service?s chief content officer, announced in April 2012 that ?Arrested Development? would return the following year.

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'Fast 6' drives record-breaking box-office haul

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? "Fast & Furious 6" raced to the top of a record-breaking weekend at North American movie theaters, and the sixth installment in the street-racing franchise also delivered a turbo-charged performance overseas.

The film debuted atop the holiday weekend box office, collecting $117 million domestically and $158 million internationally ? the biggest opening yet for a Universal Pictures release.

Ticket tallies over the four-day weekend also set a Memorial Day record with $314.2 million.

"This just obliterated the 2011 record, which was $276.75 million," said box-office analyst Paul Dergarabedian of Hollywood.com.

More than a third of the take belonged to "Fast & Furious 6" which stars Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez and Dwayne Johnson, along with an international supporting cast. The film follows the muscle-car crew as they join with police in a worldwide hunt for a terrorist, battling a plane and a tank along the way.

"It's amazing how this franchise was considered all but dead after the third film, but the filmmakers and the studio did a great job of convincing the original cast members to come back, giving it a different feel and really expanding its scope," said Dave Karger, chief correspondent for movie site Fandango.com.

The film's international cast and settings also contributed to its appeal.

"It's no coincidence that the movie takes place overseas," Karger said. "That was, I'm sure, a very calculated decision."

Nikki Rocco, Universal's head of distribution, attributes the success of "Fast 6" to its broadened scope.

"It's so much more than what it was," she said. "You have to give credit to all of us and the filmmakers for taking it to the next level."

Though a proven box-office winner, with its six films cumulatively collecting $1.9 billion so far, the "Fast & Furious" series hasn't quite reached the level of other powerhouse action franchises such as "Harry Potter," ''Transformers" and "Iron Man." The five Potter films have earned $7.7 billion worldwide. The three Transformers films have a worldwide gross of $2.67 billion. The third "Iron Man" film was released last month, and the franchise has claimed $2.36 billion worldwide so far.

Yet Karger notes the success of "Fast & Furious" is "pretty remarkable" considering the franchise was "kind of created out of thin air 12 years ago."

A recent Fandango survey shows that 93 percent of "Fast 6" ticket buyers are already anticipating the seventh installment, set to star Jason Statham.

The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Monday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Tuesday by Hollywood.com, are:

1."Fast & Furious 6," Universal, $117,036,995, 3,658 locations, $26,620 average, $117,036,995, one week.

2."The Hangover Part III," Warner Bros., $50,262,366, 3,555 locations, $11,722 average, $62,051,829, one week.

3."Star Trek: Into Darkness," Paramount, $47,187,313, 3,907 locations, $9,545 average, $83,701,981, two weeks.

4."Epic," Fox, $42,820,971, 3,882 locations, $8,638 average, $42,820,971, one week.

5."Iron Man 3," Disney, $24,693,407, 3,424 locations, $5,644 average, $337,661,977, four weeks.

6."The Great Gatsby," Warner Bros., $17,027,318, 3,090 locations, $4,383 average, $90,682,832, three weeks.

7."Mud," Roadside Attractions, $2,508,660, 712 locations, $2,727 average, $11,656,971, five weeks.

8."42," Warner Bros., $1,709,316, 915 locations, $1,376 average, $88,816,627, seven weeks.

9."The Croods," Fox $1,634,258, 1,008 locations, $1,210 average, $177,024,785, 10 weeks.

10."Oblivion," Universal, $1,038,730, 572 locations, $1,521 average, $85,588,010, six weeks.

11."Oz the Great and Powerful," Disney, $853,079, 401 locations, $1,625 average, $231,351,161, 12 weeks.

12."Pain & Gain," Paramount, $787,933, 1,003 locations, $641 average, $46,712,183, five weeks.

13."Frances Ha," IFC, $684,211, 60 locations, $9,163 average, $137,398, two weeks.

14."G.I. Joe: Retaliation," Paramount, $548,675, 346 locations, $1,272 average, $120,522,043, nine weeks.

15."The Iceman," Millennium Entertainment, $479,120, 258 locations, $1,425 average, $762,885, four weeks.

16."Tyler Perry Presents: Peeples," Lionsgate, $419,911, 485 locations, $644 average, $7,867,757, three weeks.

17."Escape from Planet Earth," Weinstein Co., $336,059, 346 locations, $735 average, $55,612,398, 15 weeks.

18."Before Midnight," Sony Pictures Classics, $305,975, 5 locations, $49,383 average, $$305,975, one week.

19."The Big Wedding," Lionsgate, $282,842, 265 locations, $861 average, $20,308,188, five weeks.

20."Love Is All You Need," Sony Pictures Classics, $272,163, 63 locations, $3,450 average, $477,134, four weeks.

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AP Entertainment Writer Sandy Cohen is on Twitter: www.twitter.com/APSandy .

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Universal and Focus are owned by NBC Universal, a unit of Comcast Corp.; Sony, Columbia, Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp.; Paramount is owned by Viacom Inc.; Disney, Pixar and Marvel are owned by The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is owned by Filmyard Holdings LLC; 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight are owned by News Corp.; Warner Bros. and New Line are units of Time Warner Inc.; MGM is owned by a group of former creditors including Highland Capital, Anchorage Advisors and Carl Icahn; Lionsgate is owned by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.; IFC is owned by AMC Networks Inc.; Rogue is owned by Relativity Media LLC.

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NCAA Football 14 Trailer Reveals New Dynasty Mode

The development team at EA Sports working on NCAA Football 14 is delivering a new trailer for the college football game, designed to reveal the new features that are part of the Dynasty Mode.

Power Recruiting is designed to simplify the system and make it easier for gamers to get straight to the action while Coach skills will increase the number of options he has with the development of his team.

The team states, ?There's no single path to success in college football, and NCAA Football 14 allows you to build your program into a powerhouse in whatever way you see fit.?

NCAA Football 14 will be launched on July 9 of this year on the PlayStation 3 from Sony and the Xbox 360 from Microsoft.

Traditionally, the game has served as a test bed for ideas that might also be included in the Madden NFL series.

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Bachmann?s changing role in the GOP

Michelle Bachmann speaks during a rally for Mitt Romney in Virginia, May 3, 2012. (Reuters/File)

There was a time, albeit brief, when polls showed Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann topping the 2012 Republican presidential primary field. And that tells you something about the challenges the GOP faces as it tries to rebrand itself as a viable party in presidential politics.

Bachmann, who announced Wednesday she would not seek re-election to the House, is a tea party favorite popular with many conservative GOP base voters even though she was never fully embraced by the party's leadership in Washington. Outspoken, forceful and attractive?let's not pretend that doesn't matter!?Bachmann's fiery denunciations of President Barack Obama and his policies established her as a national figure and a popular fundraising draw among grassroots donors even before she launched her presidential campaign.

While her views and style often drew comparisons to the party's 2008 vice presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, it was Bachmann who was willing to step in and compete in the 2012 Republican contest while Palin sat on the sidelines.

Polls showed Bachmann leading the GOP field early in the summer of 2011 and she won the Iowa straw poll, an important organizational test for candidates in the kickoff caucus state. But her candidacy ultimately flamed out amid questions about her grasp of facts. And the positions she espoused on the presidential campaign stage only helped cement the impression of a Republican party out of touch with a diversifying electorate.

She had the image of someone determined, disciplined and, in some sense, gutsy," Ruth Mandel of the Center for Women and Politics at Rutgers University, told Yahoo News. "But there was always the question of who is her constituency, and what is her credibility?"

As a presidential hopeful, Bachmann made a strong impression?the only woman in the field and a fierce, unapologetic partisan unafraid of blunt rhetoric. ?I will not rest until Obamacare is repealed," she declared at a debate in New Hampshire. "It?s a promise, take it to the bank, cash the check.?

But Bachmann also spoke of "anchor babies" on the campaign trail when asked about her views on immigration reform. She opposed vaccinating girls against the sexually transmitted Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), claiming the vaccine, Gardasil, caused a friend's daughter to become mentally retarded. She compared the U.S. tax burden to the Holocaust. And she repeatedly reaffirmed her opposition to same-sex marriage, the issue that had launched her political activism in Minnesota.

Bachmann was narrowly re-elected to her House seat in 2012, and has retained a relatively high profile on cable television, regularly laying into Obama over issues including the fatal attack on the diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya. Her address at CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Committee meeting in March, drew roars of approval where she accused Obama and his family of a lavish taxpayer-supported lifestyle including a dedicated White House dog walker. The speech was later savaged by fact checkers.

Bachmann also drew a rebuke from Republican Sen. John McCain and others for sending a letter to the State Department suggesting that Huma Abedin, a top aide to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, had ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.

Recently, Bachmann said she was "disappointed" with Minnesota over the state's legalization of gay marriage, saying it "denies religious liberty to people who believe in traditional marriage and who do not want to be forced to violate their conscience and sincerely held religious beliefs."

In a video address where she announced her decision to retire from Congress, she stands firm on her views on that issue and others.

"I will continue to work vehemently and robustly to fight back against what most in the other party want to do to transform our country into becoming?which would be a nation our founders would hardly even recognize today," she says. "I proudly have and I promise you I will continue to fight to protect innocent human life, traditional marriage [and] family values."

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14 Boring Things GoPro Makes Awesome

Most of us will never do a McTwist like Sean White or catch a wave like Kelly Slater. But that doesn't mean we can't partake in the joys of a good action cam. Here are some of our favorite examples of GoPro making the little things?okay, the totally mundane things?a billion times better:

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New X-Games category: Pancake Flipping.

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A view like this makes you actually want to mow the lawn...

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...and vacuum.

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Ikea resembles the seventh ring of hell when it's busy. But behind the safety of a Hero 3, everything is glorious.

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The thing about paddleboarding with an action cam is that it doesn't matter how terrible you are at it.

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Can't tell if GoPro was made for dogs, or the other way around.

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Especially if there's swimming involved.

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Let's just agree to strap GoPros to the backs of all dogs, because this clip of a greyhound in pursuit of his prey is wonderful.

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Speaking of animals, you definitely wouldn't want to forget your GoPro next time you visit the zoo.

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A 25 minute cam is less of a yawn when documented on your action camera.

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Dad has to sell his '68 Camaro, but you're a selfless child so you help him make an action cam video of his midlife crisis.

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Your podunk swimming hole might as well be Niagra Falls.

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That sudden urge to play golf is totally natural.

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Or quit your job and become an asparagus farmer.

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Have any to add? Post your best and GoPro videos of otherwise boring stuff below.

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Saturated fats do not yield better bacon

Public release date: 28-May-2013
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Adding corn germ, beef tallow does not change pork quality

A recent paper published in the Journal of Animal Science suggests producers may want to adjust pig diets when including distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS). Some producers believe that feeding pigs saturated fats will undo the fat-softening effects of DDGS. Firmer fat means longer-lasting pork.

But researchers from the University of Illinois found that including saturated fats in DDGS diets makes no difference in fat quality.

The researchers formulated six corn-soybean meal diets to test the effects of saturated fat additives on carcass fat quality in pigs. Five of these diets contained DDGS.

According to the researchers, pork produced from pigs fed DDGS have reduced shelf life and increased susceptibility to oxidative damage. Oxidative damage affects texture, color, juiciness and the overall flavor of pork products.

"Distillers dried grains contain unsaturated fatty acids and those fatty acids are deposited into the fat of the animal," said Hans-Henrik Stein, study co-author and Department of Animal Science professor at the University of Illinois. "From a health standpoint, that's a good thing, but it can be a problem when producing pork products like bacon."

According to Stein, high levels of unsaturated fats make pork belly fat too soft to slice for bacon. To counteract this problem, producers have included saturated fats such as corn germ, beef tallow, palm kernel oil and glycerol in diets containing DDGS in order to make the fat firmer.

For this study, corn germ, beef tallow, palm kernel oil and glycerol were each added to a diet containing DDGS. The researchers compared the performance of pigs fed each of these diets to the performance of pigs fed a diet containing DDGS with no saturated fats added and a control diet containing corn-soybean meal but no DDGS.

Firmness of fat was tested by measuring the distance of "belly flop." This was done by draping the belly of the carcasses over a metal rod with the skin facing down. Ten centimeters below the rod, distance was measured between the two sides. The larger the distance was, the firmer the fat.

The researchers found that pigs fed the control diet containing no DDGS had greater belly flop distances than the pigs fed the other diets. There was no difference among the pigs fed the five diets containing DDGS.

This led researchers to conclude that adding saturated fats to diets containing DDGS has no effect on the fat quality of pigs.

Stein suggested that producers feeding high levels of DDGS reduce the amount fed in the last 3 to 4 weeks before harvest to avoid the softening of fat.

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This paper is titled "Carcass fat quality of pigs is not improved by adding corn germ, beef tallow, palm kernal oil, or glycerol to finishing diets containing distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS)." It can be read in full at http://journalofanimalscience.org/.

Media contact:

Samantha Walker
American Society of Animal Science
Science Communications Intern
217-356-9050 / asas@asas.org

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Contact: Madeline McCurry-Schmidt
madelinems@asas.org
217-689-2435
American Society of Animal Science

Adding corn germ, beef tallow does not change pork quality

A recent paper published in the Journal of Animal Science suggests producers may want to adjust pig diets when including distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS). Some producers believe that feeding pigs saturated fats will undo the fat-softening effects of DDGS. Firmer fat means longer-lasting pork.

But researchers from the University of Illinois found that including saturated fats in DDGS diets makes no difference in fat quality.

The researchers formulated six corn-soybean meal diets to test the effects of saturated fat additives on carcass fat quality in pigs. Five of these diets contained DDGS.

According to the researchers, pork produced from pigs fed DDGS have reduced shelf life and increased susceptibility to oxidative damage. Oxidative damage affects texture, color, juiciness and the overall flavor of pork products.

"Distillers dried grains contain unsaturated fatty acids and those fatty acids are deposited into the fat of the animal," said Hans-Henrik Stein, study co-author and Department of Animal Science professor at the University of Illinois. "From a health standpoint, that's a good thing, but it can be a problem when producing pork products like bacon."

According to Stein, high levels of unsaturated fats make pork belly fat too soft to slice for bacon. To counteract this problem, producers have included saturated fats such as corn germ, beef tallow, palm kernel oil and glycerol in diets containing DDGS in order to make the fat firmer.

For this study, corn germ, beef tallow, palm kernel oil and glycerol were each added to a diet containing DDGS. The researchers compared the performance of pigs fed each of these diets to the performance of pigs fed a diet containing DDGS with no saturated fats added and a control diet containing corn-soybean meal but no DDGS.

Firmness of fat was tested by measuring the distance of "belly flop." This was done by draping the belly of the carcasses over a metal rod with the skin facing down. Ten centimeters below the rod, distance was measured between the two sides. The larger the distance was, the firmer the fat.

The researchers found that pigs fed the control diet containing no DDGS had greater belly flop distances than the pigs fed the other diets. There was no difference among the pigs fed the five diets containing DDGS.

This led researchers to conclude that adding saturated fats to diets containing DDGS has no effect on the fat quality of pigs.

Stein suggested that producers feeding high levels of DDGS reduce the amount fed in the last 3 to 4 weeks before harvest to avoid the softening of fat.

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This paper is titled "Carcass fat quality of pigs is not improved by adding corn germ, beef tallow, palm kernal oil, or glycerol to finishing diets containing distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS)." It can be read in full at http://journalofanimalscience.org/.

Media contact:

Samantha Walker
American Society of Animal Science
Science Communications Intern
217-356-9050 / asas@asas.org

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