News tagged with food intake

Calories, not protein or carbs, are key to weight loss for people with diabetes

(Medical Xpress) -- Overweight or obese people with type 2 diabetes are more likely to reduce weight if they focus on cutting back on total calorie intake, rather than specific high protein/high carbohydrate diets according ...

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Gene related to fat preferences in humans found

A preference for fatty foods has a genetic basis, according to researchers, who discovered that people with certain forms of the CD36 gene may like high-fat foods more than those who have other forms of this gene.

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Eating behavior influenced by dining partners

Share a meal with someone and you are both likely to mimic each other's behavior and take bites at the same time rather than eating at your own pace, says a study published in the Feb. 2 issue of the online journal PLoS ON ...

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created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Women taking indigestion drugs at increased risk of hip fracture after menopause

Post-menopausal women are 35% more likely to suffer hip fracture if they take indigestion drugs, known as proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), a figure which increases to 50% if they are also current or former smokers, suggests ...

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Gut hormone leads to weight loss in overweight or obese patients

Giving overweight or obese patients a gut hormone that suppresses appetite leads to clinically beneficial weight loss as well as reduced blood pressure and cholesterol levels, finds a study published in the British Medical ...

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created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Evidence found for brain injury in diet-induced obesity

(Medical Xpress) -- The first evidence, reported today, of structural changes in the brains of rodents and humans with diet-induced obesity may help explain one of the most vexing problems of body weight control.

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created Dec 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Winter diets? The secret is to chill the extremities

It is well known that large mammals living in temperate climates lower their metabolism in winter. But does this represent a mechanism for coping with less food or is it merely a consequence of having less to eat? For the ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Humans unequipped for high-salt diet, food scientist contends

Humans are physiologically unprepared for the amount of sodium found in manufactured foods in the modern food supply, contributing to the diet-related diseases observed today.

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created Dec 14, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 7

Proteins linked to longevity may be involved in mood control

(Medical Xpress) -- Over the past decade, MIT biologist Leonard Guarente and others have shown that very-low-calorie diets provoke a comprehensive physiological response that promotes survival, all orchestrated by a set of ...

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created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New approach to management of overeating in children

Overeating, whether in children or adults, often takes place even in the absence of hunger, resulting in weight gain and obesity. Current methods to treat such overeating in youth focus on therapies that restrict what kids ...

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created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

People with early Alzheimer's disease may be more likely to have lower BMI

Studies have shown that people who are overweight in middle age are more likely to develop Alzheimer's disease decades later than people at normal weight, yet researchers have also found that people in the earliest stages ...

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created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

eButton: An easy way to monitor food intake, exercise, and lifestyle

(Medical Xpress) -- People attempting to lose weight won’t need to track their daily food intake anymore, thanks to a wearable, picture-taking device created at the University of Pittsburgh. eButton—a ...

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Thousands of lives could be saved if rest of UK adopted average diet in England

Around 4,000 deaths could be prevented every year if the UK population adopted the average diet eaten in England, concludes research published in BMJ Open.

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created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Intestinal stem cells respond to food by supersizing the gut

A new study from University of California, Berkeley, researchers demonstrates that adult stem cells can reshape our organs in response to changes in the body and the environment, a finding that could have ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Study shows estrogen works in the brain to keep weight in check

A recent UT Southwestern Medical Center study found that estrogen regulates energy expenditure, appetite and body weight, while insufficient estrogen receptors in specific parts of the brain may lead to obesity.

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created Oct 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Eating

In general terms, eating (formally, ingestion) is the process of consuming food to provide for the nutritional needs of an animal, particularly their energy requirements and to grow. All animals must eat organisms in order to survive: carnivores eat other animals, herbivores eat plants, and omnivores consume a mixture of both; see feeding.

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