Prof. Alexander Pfeifer from the Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Bonn.Credit: Barbara Frommann/Uni Bonn
Immune responses prevent conversion into slimming cells
Scientists at the University of Bonn have shown in mice that excess pounds can simply be...
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Price of food even influences what health issues we worry about
Consumers believe healthy food must be more expensive than cheap eats and that higher-priced food is healthier - even when there is no supporting evidence, according to...
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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...
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Diet composition around the time of pregnancy may influence whether offspring become obese, according to a new study using animal models at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI).
"Your diet itself matters, not just whether you are gaining excess...
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Every meal you eat now costs the planet 10 kilos in lost topsoil.
That's the warning of "Surviving the 21st Century" author Julian Cribb to an international soil science...
People who eat at least 20g of nuts a day have a lower risk of heart disease, cancer and other diseases.Image Credit: Flickr/naomii
A large analysis of current research shows that people who eat at least 20g of nuts a...
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Repeatedly losing and regaining weight, known as weight cycling or yo-yo dieting, may increase the risk of death from heart disease among postmenopausal women who were of normal weight at the start of the study, according...
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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...
Vision is the main sense humans use to guide food choices, According to a study. Image Credit: Flickr/belgianchocolate
According to a study at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste and recently published in the journal Scientific Reports,...
Neu5Gc, a non-human sialic acid sugar molecule common in red meat that increases the risk of tumor formation in humans, is also prevalent in pig organs, with concentrations increasing as the organs are cooked, a study by researchers from...
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A new scientific study shows that eating cheese may actually increase how much someone likes the wine they are drinking. The study, published in the October issue of theJournal of Food Science, used a new sensory...
