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Chewing gum can reduce calorie intake, increase energy expenditure

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A nutrition professor at the University of Rhode Island studying the effects of chewing sugar-free gum on weight management has found that it can help to reduce calorie intake and increase energy expenditure.


Fat hormone influences baseline dopamine levels and our motivation to eat

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

As we all know from experience, people eat not only because they are hungry, but also because the food just simply tastes too good to pass up. Now, a new study in the August 6th Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication, helps ...


Researchers observe single protein dimers wavering between two symmetrically opposed structures

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jun 19, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute, the University of California, San Diego, and Ohio State University have used a very sensitive fluorescence technique to find that a bacterial protein thought to exist in one ...


Bad news for insomniacs: 'hunger hormones' affected by poor sleep

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Insomnia has long been associated with poor health, including weight gain and even obesity. Now researchers at UCLA have found out why.


Scientists identify another piece of the weight-control puzzle

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 10, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Controlling body weight is a complicated process, as any frustrated dieter might attest. But as scientists continue to investigate the brain's intricate neurocircuitry and its role in maintaining energy balance, they are ...