It’s long been known that human fat cells are composed of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms. What’s just been discovered by Australian scientists is that when we “burn” fat, almost all the broken-down fat molecules are exhaled through the lungs as carbon dioxide. The research team, led by Ruben Meerman and Andrew Brown of the […]
Scientists from the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences report that vitamin C and E supplements can interfere with cellular signaling and handicap the development of muscular endurance. Their report, published in The Journal of Physiology, hints that the blunting effect may be caused by a reduction of oxidative stress. “Our results show that vitamin C […]
A new study reveals that humans and other primates burn 50 percent fewer calories each day than other mammals. Interestingly, the study also reports that primates in zoos expend as much energy as those in the wild, suggesting that physical activity may have less of an impact on daily energy expenditure than previously thought. The […]
A controversial new study that frames multiple sclerosis (MS) as a metabolic disorder rather than an autoimmune disease neatly addresses many puzzling aspects of the illness, including why it strikes women more than men and why cases are on the rise worldwide. Appearing in the The Quarterly Review of Biology, the study suggests that MS […]
Researchers have found that cell phone use is associated with increased brain glucose metabolism (an indicator of brain activity) in the region closest to the antenna, but they say that the finding is of unknown clinical significance. The research, appearing in the Journal of the American Medical Asociation, notes that past studies of the association […]
Geneticists are recommending more rigorous health monitoring of IVF babies in later life as new research reveals links between assisted reproduction technologies and predisposition to certain diseases. More than three million children have been born as a result of assisted reproductive technologies since the birth of the first “test tube baby” in 1978, and while […]
An intriguing new study reported in Psychosomatic Medicine has demonstrates that intellectual work induces a substantial increase in calorie intake. The discovery, say the Université Laval researchers involved, could go some way to explaining the current obesity epidemic. The researchers, supervised by Dr. Angelo Tremblay, measured the spontaneous food intake of 14 students after each […]
A cup of coffee in the morning may seem innocuous enough, but new research shows that coffee may put some people at risk of suffering a myocardial infarction (heart attack). While a link has been suspected for some time, research into the connection between coffee consumption and cardiovascular diseases such as myocardial infarction (MI) has […]
