Here’s a bitter pill to swallow: Artificial sweeteners may be doing more harm than good
Credit: Creative Commons A $2.2 billion industry to help people lose weight through artificial sweeteners may be contributing to type ...
Tag: Nutrition/Nutrients
New review study shows that egg-industry-funded research downplays danger of cholesterol
Researchers explain how faulty, industry-funded studies can harm public healthCredit: Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine WASHINGTON--Controversial headlines claiming that eggs ...
Grant project aims to improve food security for remote indigenous populations in Australia
Credit: Marianne Stein URBANA, Ill. - An international research team has received a $1.4 million grant from the Australian National ...
Mites can change their diet depending on environmental conditions
A team of scientists from Tyumen State University together with their foreign colleagues discovered that soil mites change their dietary ...
Could some people with schizophrenia in poorer nations simply have a vitamin deficiency?
A new hypothesis may hold the key to solving four medical mysteries associated with the chronic brain disorderCredit: University of ...
Helping plant nurseries reduce runoff
Credit: Jake Shreckhise You may have heard how excess nutrients, such as phosphorus, can run off of crop fields. This ...
Lactobacillus balances gut microbiome and improves chronic-alcohol-induced liver injury
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, December 9, 2019--Researchers demonstrated that Lactobacillus rhamnosus can dose-dependently reestablish a ...
How much will we eat in the future?
Researchers at Göttingen University investigate relationship between our body size and human global calorie demandCredit: Lutz Depenbusch The amount of ...
Warmer temperatures will increase arsenic levels in rice, study shows
Credit: Mark Stone/University of Washington People around the world consume rice in their daily diets. But in addition to its ...
Hundreds of environmental health professionals in US report challenges, research needs
With more than a quarter of the professionals expected to retire in five years, a national effort is needed for ...
Teens must ‘get smart’ about social media
Warning of effects on young adolescentsCredit: Flinders University New research indicates that social media is leading young adolescent girls and ...
How does protein fit in your holiday diet or New Year’s resolutions?
Study shows protein amounts larger than the recommended dietary allowance benefits only those who are cutting calories or strength trainingCredit: ...
For some corals, meals can come with a side of microplastics
Credit: Dennis Wise/University of Washington Tiny microplastic particles are about as common in the ocean today as plastic is in ...
Investigating the human intestinal mucus barrier up-close and personal
Personalized medicine approach using a human Colon Chip opens up gateway to study mucus barrier functions in patients with intestinal ...
Supermarkets and child nutrition in Africa
New study by University of Göttingen shows reduction of child undernutrition through supermarkets in KenyaCredit: E M Meemken Hunger and ...
A new therapeutic target against diseases caused by lipid accumulation in cells
Study with the CRISPR/Cas9 editing technologyCredit: UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA Researchers from the University of Barcelona (UB) and the August Pi ...
Space travel can make the gut leaky
UC Riverside-led study tested the effects of microgravity on intestinal epithelial cellsCredit: Carrie Rosema. RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Bacteria, fungi, and ...
Two Rutgers professors named fellows of AAAS
Rutgers-New Brunswick and RBHS faculty honored for scientific contributionsCredit: Jeff Heckman Two Rutgers professors have been named fellows of the ...
We love coffee, tea, chocolate and soft drinks so much, caffeine is literally in our blood
Credit: Photo by Steven Ward, OSU Extension and Experiment Station Communications. CORVALLIS, Ore. - Scientists at Oregon State University may ...
Wearable sweat sensor detects gout-causing compounds
Credit: Caltech There are numerous things to dislike about going to the doctor: Paying a copay, sitting in the waiting ...
