News tagged with choline
Deceiving cell walls
Jan 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Approximately 1.6 million people die worldwide every year as a result of pneumococcal infection, which causes grave illnesses, including pneumonia, meningitis, and middle-ear infections. Children ...
Eating eggs when pregnant affects breast cancer in offspring
Dec 01, 2008 |
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A stunning discovery based on epigenetics (the inheritance of propensities acquired in the womb) reveals that consuming choline—a nutrient found in eggs and other foods—during pregnancy may significantly affect breast cancer ...
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Get smart about what you eat and you might actually improve your intelligence
Jul 02, 2008 |
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New research findings published online in The FASEB Journal provide more evidence that if we get smart about what we eat, our intelligence can improve. According to MIT scientists, dietary nutrients found in a wide range ...
PET/CT scans may help detect recurring prostate cancer earlier
Sep 01, 2009 |
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A new study published in the September issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine shows that positron emission tomography (PET)/computer tomography (CT) scans with the imaging agent choline could detect recurring prostate cancer ...
Hunting ways to protect babies when mom drinks
Jun 22, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Drinking during pregnancy can seriously harm a baby's brain, yet thousands of mothers-to-be still do. Now scientists have begun testing whether a prenatal nutrient might offer those babies a little protection, part ...
New study 'pardons' the misunderstood egg
Dec 16, 2008 |
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A study recently published online in the journal Risk Analysis estimates that eating one egg per day is responsible for less than 1 percent of the risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) in healthy adults. Alternatively, lifest ...
Study points to cocktail therapy for Alzheimer's
Jul 08, 2008 |
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A dietary cocktail that includes a type of omega-3 fatty acid can improve memory and learning in gerbils, according to the latest study from MIT researchers that points to a possible beverage-based treatment for Alzheimer's ...
Smoking changes brain chemistry
Nov 28, 2006 |
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Chronic smoking affects nerve cells and alters the chemical makeup of the brain, according to research presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America.
'Cocktail' of compounds improves brain function in rodents
Nov 26, 2007 |
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MIT researchers have shown that a cocktail containing three compounds normally in the blood stream promotes growth of new brain connections and improves cognitive function in rodents. The treatment is now being tested in ...
Brains can recover from alcoholic damage but patients should stop drinking as soon as possible
Dec 17, 2006 |
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The findings, published today in the online edition of the journal Brain, used sophisticated scanning technology and computer software to measure how brain volume, form and function changed over six to seven weeks of abs ...
The epigenetics of increasing weight through the generations
Jul 15, 2008 |
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Overweight mothers give birth to offspring who become even heavier, resulting in amplification of obesity across generations, said Baylor College of Medicine researchers in Houston who found that chemical changes in the ways ...
MIT research offers new hope for Alzheimer's patients
Apr 27, 2006 |
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MIT brain researchers have developed a "cocktail" of dietary supplements, now in human clinical trials, that holds promise for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease
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