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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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Balancing protein intake, not cutting calories, may be key to long life

Balancing protein intake, not cutting calories, may be key to long life

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (18) | comments 5

Getting the correct balance of proteins in our diet may be more important for healthy ageing than reducing calories, new research funded by the Wellcome Trust and Research into Ageing suggests.


Controlling key enzyme in brain offers clue for future obesity treatment

Controlling key enzyme in brain offers clue for future obesity treatment

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

The Sirt1 enzyme in the body has generated enormous attention as a possible secret to living longer. Some scientists believe that fasting and drinking wine appear to aid in this quest because both likely activate ...


Study shows how substance in grapes may squeeze out diabetes

Study shows how substance in grapes may squeeze out diabetes

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0

A naturally produced molecule called resveratrol, found in the skin of red grapes, has been shown to lower insulin levels in mice when injected directly into the brain, even when the animals ate a high-fat ...


Heart-healthy, low-cal diets promote weight loss regardless of fat, protein and carb content

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 25, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Heart-healthy diets that reduce calorie intake—regardless of differing proportions of fat, protein, or carbohydrate—can help overweight and obese adults achieve and maintain weight loss, according to a study funded by the ...


Researchers pinpoint neurons that control obesity in fruit flies

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A team of scientists from the California Institute of Technology have pinpointed two groups of neurons in fruit fly brains that have the ability to sense and manipulate the fly's fat stores in much the same way as do neurons ...


Gut hormone has 'remote control' on blood sugar

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A gut hormone first described in 1928 plays an unanticipated and important role in the remote control of blood sugar production in the liver, according to a report in the August 6th Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication. What's ...


To eat or not to eat? Mental budgets help control consumption

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

If you feel like you're in a losing battle with a triple-chocolate cake, a "mental budget" can help, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research.


Fructose metabolism by the brain increases food intake and obesity

Medicine & Health / Research

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 0

The journal Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications (BBRC), published by Elsevier, will publish an important review this week online, by M. Daniel Lane and colleagues at Johns Hopkins, building on the suggested link b ...


Increased food intake alone explains the increase in body weight in the US

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 08, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (8) | comments 7

New research that uses an innovative approach to study, for the first time, the relative contributions of food and exercise habits to the development of the obesity epidemic has concluded that the rise in obesity in the United ...


Sleep may keep you thin: studies

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The secret of staying thin could be at least partly down to a good night's rest, an international conference on obesity heard in Amsterdam on Thursday.


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Brain enzyme may play key role in controlling appetite and weight gain

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created Dec 12, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have found that overactivity of a brain enzyme may play a role in preventing weight gain and obesity. The findings were reported in ...


Researchers find clue to safer obesity drugs

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 25, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Once hailed as a miracle weight-loss drug, Fen-phen was removed from the market more than a decade ago for inducing life-threatening side effects, including heart valve lesions. Scientists at UT Southwestern ...


Many middle-aged and older Americans not getting adequate nutrition

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 01, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Micronutrients such as calcium, magnesium, potassium and vitamin C play essential roles in maintaining health. As older adults tend to reduce their food intake as they age, there is concern that deficits in these micronutrients ...


Brain molecule reduces food intake

Medicine & Health / Research

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

Researchers at Imperial College London have identified a new appetite suppressant for promoting weight loss that they say works in rodents and may one day be used to develop an effective anti-obesity treatment.


Research team discovers brain pathway responsible for obesity

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 02, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 0

University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers, for the first time, have found a messaging system in the brain that directly affects food intake and body weight.