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Researchers discover pathway with implications for obesity

Researchers discover pathway with implications for obesity

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cornell scientists have discovered how two related proteins and their roles in a key molecular pathway are critical to creating obesity-causing fat cells.





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We spend more on products with detailed nutritional information

We spend more on products with detailed nutritional information

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

People would be willing to pay more for products that carry detailed nutritional information than for the so-called light items. Thus it has been confirmed by researchers from the University of Santiago de ...


Humans don’t get all the benefit from raw tomatoes

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (11) | comments 1

Eating a raw tomato may not be the best way to release all its healthy antioxidants into the body.


Owners should count calories for obese pets, consider several factors for good health

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

You might watch your daily calorie intake or glance over nutritional information on food packages, but do you do the same for your pet?


Food security: It starts with seed

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 04, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

With each passing year, the human population of our planet continues to expand. This growth has created a wide ranging strain on our water and soil resources, as well as our environment, creating an unprecedented urgency ...


Research finds way to double rice crops in drought-stricken areas

Biology /

created Nov 20, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

University of Alberta research has yielded a way to double the output of rice crops in some of the world's poorest, most distressed areas.


Researchers studying link between climate change and cattle nutritional stress

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Kansas State University's Joseph Craine, research assistant professor in the Division of Biology, and KC Olson, associate professor in animal sciences and industry, have teamed up with some other scientists from across the ...


'Experiment of nature' examines how mother's diet may impact on child's health

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 23, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Could our mother's diet at the time we are conceived set the course for our future health? This intriguing question is at the heart of a new study based on an "experiment of nature" being conducted by Wellcome Trust-funded ...


Powerful pumpkins, super squash

Powerful pumpkins, super squash

Biology / Other

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Carotenoids, the family of yellow to red pigments responsible for the striking orange hues of pumpkins and the familiar red color of vine-ripe tomatoes, play an important role in human health by acting as ...


Supplement Could Reduce Risk of Gestational Diabetes in Pregnant Women

Medicine & Health / Health

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

Women who enter pregnancy with a higher body weight face serious risks: higher rates of gestational diabetes, high blood pressure and the risk of a larger baby who could go on to have obesity, diabetes and heart disease in ...


New study levels new criticisms at food industry

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A new study released Monday, Dec. 14, in Washington, D.C., criticizes the nation's food and beverage industry for failing to shift their marketing efforts aimed at children. The report said television advertising continues ...



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