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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.





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Energy gap useful tool for successful weight loss maintenance strategy

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Americans continue to get heavier. Most weight control methods short of bariatric surgery are generally considered ineffective in preventing obesity or reducing weight. The term energy gap was coined to estimate the change ...


Playing active video games can equal moderate intensity exercise

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Active Wii sports video games and some Wii fit activities may increase adults' energy expenditure as much as moderately intense exercise, according to research presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions ...


Climate studies to benefit from 12 years of satellite aerosol data

Climate studies to benefit from 12 years of satellite aerosol data

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Aerosols, very small particles suspended in the air, play an important role in the global climate balance and in regulating climate change. They are one of the greatest sources of uncertainty in climate change ...


Japan aims to bury greenhouse gas emissions

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 01, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Swathes of dirty clouds brood over a coal plant in rural Japan, but scientists are now hoping to send the pollutants the other way, deep into the bowels of Mother Earth.


Battery Research Aims To Store Renewable Energy

Battery Research Aims To Store Renewable Energy

Technology / Energy

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (13) | comments 5

The biggest chemical battery in the United States is located near Interstate 90 in the small town of Luverne, Minn. The 80 ton device -- the size of two tractor-trailers stacked on top of each other -- stores ...


Improved adhesive for products like transparent tape could benefit biofuels economy

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

An adhesive used in products like laminate countertops may also help cement a place for economically viable biofuels, according to a Kansas State University researcher.


Model microbial community for studying expanding dead zones characterized

Model microbial community for studying expanding dead zones characterized

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Among the many changes in the ocean is the expansion of oxygen-deficient or oxygen minimum zones (OMZs), also known as dead zones, which affect the processes by which carbon is captured and sequestered on ...


How to execute dietary management in eating disorder patients

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Substances that provoke gastrointestinal symptoms in patients with eating disorders (ED) can impact negatively on their nutritional rehabilitation. An Australian research group has found that ingestion of fructose-sorbitol ...


Touting tech tools of the future

Technology / Software

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

While most people were turning their clocks backward over the weekend, Microsoft research chief Craig Mundie was moving his forward, five to 10 years into the future.


The Stars My Destination

The Stars My Destination

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (23) | comments 2

The Voyager spacecraft are now in the outermost layer of the heliosphere, traveling toward interstellar space - the first man-made spacecraft to travel such a vast distance from Earth.



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