News tagged with milkshake


Milkshakes are medicine for anorexic teens in family-based outpatient therapy

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Getting your teenager to drink a chocolate milkshake isn't something most parents need to worry about. But this is just the approach used in one treatment for anorexia nervosa. Known as Behavioral Family Therapy, or the Maudsley ...





Search results for milkshake


Researchers tie genes, lower reward response to weight gain

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Oct 16, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The brains of obese people seem to respond to a tasty treat with less vigor than the brains of their leaner peers, suggesting obese people may overeat to compensate for a reduced reward response, according to a new brain ...


When unhealthy foods hijack overeaters' brains

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Food hijacked Dr. David Kessler's brain. Not apples or carrots. The scientist who once led the government's attack on addictive cigarettes can't wander through part of San Francisco without craving a local shop's ...


Half of Americans have gene that affects how body burns sugar

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 26, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A recent study by a Saint Louis University researcher confirms findings that about half of the U.S. population has a version of a gene that causes them to metabolize food differently, putting them at greater risk of developing ...


Of traffic jams, beach sands and the zero-temperature jamming transition

Physics / Condensed Matter

created May 13, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers in condensed matter physics at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Chicago have created an experimental and computer model to study how jamming, the physical process in which collections of particles ...


Researchers discover gene mutation that helps prevent heart disease

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Dec 11, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore have discovered a novel gene mutation among the Old Order Amish population that significantly reduces the level of triglycerides in the blood and appears ...


Gorilla goes under the knife for cataract repair

Biology / Plants & Animals

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

The patient was a 42-year-old, 160-pound grandmother with thick bilateral cataracts that had left her nearly blind, markedly diminishing her quality of life.


A taste of help to keep cancer patients' pounds up

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created May 18, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- The statistic is shocking: Severe malnutrition and weight loss play a role in at least one in five cancer deaths. Yet nutrition too often is an afterthought until someone's already in trouble.


Researcher turns turkey away from the dark side

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 20, 2006 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

"White meat or dark?" That question, now as much a part of holiday traditions as rum and eggnog, will be asked again and again at dinner tables this Christmas, as carving knifes prepare to slice into the bird's crisp skin.


Beer Here

Biology / Other

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Drinking beer is a simple act, but making beer is not. It starts out with genetics and tens of thousands of barley varieties and ends with a clear ambrosia that belies the time, effort and technology that ...



List of search results for milkshake