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 Diet
21 October 2009
High protein diet shrinks brain
Reported in the journal Molecular Neurodegeneration, a study by Alzheimer's researchers has unexpectedly found that a high protein diet, such as the Atkins diet, can lead to a smaller brain...
7 January 2009
Surprising finding from calorie-weight study
An international study has failed to find supporting evidence for the common belief that the number of calories burned in physical activity is a key factor in rising rates of obesity...
8 September 2008
Work smarter, eat harder
An intriguing new study has demonstrated that intellectual work induces a substantial increase in calorie intake. The discovery, contend the researchers involved, could go some way to explaining the current obesity epidemic...
6 August 2008
Prof Pooh-Poohs "Exercise Pill" Reports
An expert in exercise and the human metabolic system has criticized recent media stories about the invention of an "exercise pill" as unrealistic and largely ignorant of the benefits that physical activity has on human physiology...
3 April 2008
Water Intake Guidelines Questioned
A study into the health effects of drinking 8 glasses of water a day reveals that most supposed benefits are not backed by solid evidence...
27 March 2008
Brain Has Sixth Sense For Calories
New research suggests that the brain can “sense” the calories in food, independent of our normal tasting mechanism...
12 July 2007
Antibiotics Absorbed By Vegetables
Antibiotics fed to livestock are contaminating corn, lettuce and potato crops via the cattle manure that is used to fertilize the soil...
6 June 2007
Newly Identified "Starvation Hormone" Behind Low-Carb Diet Effectiveness
The effectiveness of low-carbohydrate, high-fat diets appears to depend on increased levels of what researchers have termed the "starvation hormone"...
20 April 2007
Green Tea Suppresses Inflammatory Autoimmune Response
A compound found in green tea appears to reduce the inflammatory responses associated with autoimmune diseases...
14 March 2007
The Skinny On Bad Fat
All fats are not equal, say researchers who are probing the workings of a particular fat found in the belly, which appears to be a big contributor to diabetes, heart disease and other disorders...
20 September 2006
Fat Gets A Makeover
There is an increasing amount of evidence that too little body fat can have some surprisingly dire consequences on your health...
1 September 2006
Veggie Juice Reduces Risk Of Vegetative State
A specific class of antioxidant found in fruit and vegetable juice could stave off Alzheimer’s disease, particularly for those people genetically predisposed to the disease...
3 August 2006
Obesity's Double-Whammy Effect On Healthcare System
Radiologists are finding that conventional x-ray and CT machines aren't powerful enough to effectively penetrate obese patients...
7 June 2006
New Theory On Green Tea's Medicinal Properties
Is it green tea that helps prevent against cancer and cardiovascular disease in chain-smoking Asian populations? Scientists from Yale University have been investigating what is termed "the Asian paradox"...
24 April 2006
Researchers Give Cholesterol Critics The Finger
Cholesterol has had a lot of bad press, but researchers have now discovered that it’s also responsible for giving us the correct number of fingers and toes...
8 March 2006
Wrong Genes And Coffee’s A Heart Stopper
A cup of coffee in the morning may seem innocuous enough, but some genetically predisposed coffee drinkers may be putting themselves at risk of a heart attack...
10 November 2005
Human Guinea Pig Success For Omega 3 Cancer Treatment
Success with omega-3 fatty acids in animal cancer trials have been repeated in a human subject whose lung cancer has now all but disappeared...
16 September 2005
Savoring The Flavoring
Are wine-buffs coaxed into buying their particular brand of poison just because that’s what current trends dictate? Is an appreciation of haute cuisine no more than a learned social behavior? These are just two of the conclusions you could draw from recent research into taste perception. According to the researchers, one person’s taste is unique from the next, with taste and odor perception being dramatically more complicated than our other sense perceptions. To understand why this is so, scientists have had to study taste at the genetic level…
12 August 2005
Food, Notorious Food
Our ancestors had it pretty tough when it came to feeding the family. Leaving the cave to spear something for dinner was fraught with danger and disappointment. We may have it easier nowadays, but have we swapped nutritional content for convenience? Evidence is mounting that the foods we eat are becoming less and less nutritious thanks to factors that seem beyond our control...
3 December 2004
Nutrients Being Bred Out Of Modern Crops
Important nutrients like protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron and riboflavin are being bred out of modern crops as farmers seek higher yields...
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