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Just how friendly are those probiotics in your food?

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Ready for some live, active cultures in your chocolate? How about your breakfast cereal? Probiotics, the so-called "friendly" bacteria with health benefits, have busted out of the dairy case and are colonizing other areas ...





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Sandia simulations may explain nanoparticles 'pinned' to graphene

Simulations may explain nanoparticles 'pinned' to graphene

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 24, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (24) | comments 2

It was hard to understand how a graphene sheet — a featureless, flat sheet of carbon atoms — lying on an equally featureless iridium surface, somehow converted itself into a kind of muffin tin that formed ...


Eating junk while pregnant can harm your baby

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 01, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

We all know that smoking and drinking when pregnant can harm the baby, but new research published in The Journal of Physiology suggests that poor diet may also cause long-lasting, irreversible damage in offspring from heart ...


Researcher develops power-packed soy breakfast cereal

Medicine & Health / Other

created Mar 06, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Breakfast of champions? That would be a soy protein-packed, low-fat, high-fiber cereal that meets the requirements for three different FDA health claims and leaves you feeling full so you won’t be tempted to eat again until ...


Macadamia nuts can be included in heart healthy diet

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 11, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 1

Macadamia nuts included in a heart healthy diet reduced low-density cholesterol (bad cholesterol) and should be included among nuts with qualified health claims, according to researchers.


New research shows saturated and trans fats increase risk of severe heart attacks

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 01, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

It has long been known that saturated or trans fats can cause clogged arteries that lead to heart attacks, but new research shows that too much fat can worsen the severity of a heart attack - and disrupt heart rhythm, increasing ...


With over-weight kids the norm, parents are asking how much a toddler should eat

With over-weight kids the norm, parents are asking how much a toddler should eat

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 03, 2008 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Where does the American tendency to become overweight begin? With 20 percent of Montana high school students being overweight and 10 percent of those qualifying as obese, the question is as relevant in Montana ...


Eating junk food whilst pregnant and breastfeeding may lead to obese offspring

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 15, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Mothers who eat junk food during pregnancy and breastfeeding may be putting their children at risk of overeating and developing obesity, according to a study funded by the Wellcome Trust and carried out at the Royal Veterinary ...


Skim to slim: Parents on food aid encouraged to wean kids off whole milk

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 15, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (3) | comments 5

Nutritionists responsible for helping the poorest of kids eat right are taking a tough stand: Whole milk is hurting Junior's waistline.


Research shows few children receive a healthy lunch

Research shows few children receive a healthy lunch

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 12, 2007 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Only one in 10 school lunch boxes contains food that meets nutritional guidelines for children, new research has found. And bad news for parents who do make the effort to provide healthy food is that the study ...


Pistachios lower cholesterol, provide antioxidants

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created Apr 30, 2007 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (11) | comments 0

A handful of pistachios may lower cholesterol and provide the antioxidants usually found in leafy green vegetables and brightly colored fruit, according to a team of researchers.



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