Butter consumption was only weakly associated with total mortality, not associated with cardiovascular disease, and slightly inversely associated (protective) with diabetes, according to a new epidemiological study which analyzed the association of butter consumption with chronic disease and all-cause...
Overuse of antibiotics, high animal numbers and low genetic diversity caused by intensive farming techniques increase the likelihood of pathogens becoming a major public health risk, according to new research led by UK scientists.
An international team of researchers led...
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Study compares how the human body reacts to natural and artificial non-nutritive sweeteners and sugar
What should healthy young men who want to watch their weight and manage their blood sugar levels drink? Can they risk something...
Skimping on sleep has long been associated with overeating, poor food choices and weight gain. Now a new study shows how sleep loss initiates this process, amplifying and extending blood levels of a chemical signal that enhances the joy...
Edible ginger-derived nano-lipids created from a specific population of ginger nanoparticles show promise for effectively targeting and delivering chemotherapeutic drugs used to treat colon cancer, according to a study by researchers at the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia...
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The latest study by researchers from ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich suggests that excessive consumption of fatty foods could severely disrupt the development of the prefrontal cortex in the maturing brains of young people. This...
A new study suggests that lesser-known gut-health promoters called prebiotics - which serve as food for good bacteria inside the gut -- can also have an impact, improving sleep and buffering the physiological impacts of stress. Image credit: Flickr/Mike...
Eating tomatoes and tomato-based foods is associated with a lower risk of stroke.
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Eating tomatoes and tomato-based foods is associated with a lower risk of stroke, according to new research published in the October 9, 2012,...
NIH-Sponsored Expert Panel Issues Clinical Guidelines to Prevent Peanut Allergy.Recommendations Focus on Introducing Peanut-Containing Foods to Infants. Image Credit: Flickr/NIAID
An expert panel sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of...
Might it be possible to 'turn off' a food allergy?
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A single treatment giving life-long protection from severe allergies such as asthma could be made possible by immunology research at The University of Queensland.
A team led...
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It is a known fact that microbes on farms protect children from asthma and allergies. But even non-microbial molecules can have a protective effect: Immunologists from the University of Zurich have shown...
