News tagged with fish intake

Fish consumption at all time high, says UN agency

Fish consumption reached record levels in 2010 and world stocks need to be urgently rebuilt, experts at the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation said in a report Monday.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 31, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Consuming polyunsaturated fatty acids may lower the incidence of gum disease

Periodontitis, a common inflammatory disease in which gum tissue separates from teeth, leads to accumulation of bacteria and potential bone and tooth loss. Although traditional treatments concentrate on the bacterial infection, ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 26, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Drink milk and lose more weight: research

A new weight loss study conducted by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers reveals that dieters who consumed milk or milk products lost more weight on average than those who consumed little to no milk products.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 21, 2010 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New insights could mean better fish feeds

A better understanding of what happens in a fish's body when it eats could lead to the production of better fish feeds. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, are hoping to contribute to more energy-efficient ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 16, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

15,000 reasons to worry about invasive species

A day at the beach in Wisconsin's North Woods didn't used to go like this. Candy Dailey spent a Fourth of July holiday splashing with grandkids on the sandy shore of Lake Metonga when she felt a nasty sting on her foot.

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Seaway's 50th anniversary soiled by invasive species

Fifty years ago Friday, President Dwight Eisenhower and Britain's Queen Elizabeth II walked down a red carpet, climbed aboard a "floating palace" of a yacht named Britannia and ceremoniously sailed through the St. Lambert ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Quagga mussels are clogging Hoover Dam, colonizing lakes and rivers

It took some of America's best engineers, thousands of laborers and two years of around-the-clock concrete pouring to build the 726-foot-high Hoover Dam back in the 1930s. It took less time than that for the tiny, brainless ...

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1