News tagged with sugar foods

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 ...

Medicine & Health / Health

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ACP recommends metformin to treat type 2 diabetes based on CE analysis of oral medications

The American College of Physicians (ACP) recommends that clinicians add metformin as the initial drug treatment for most patients with type 2 diabetes when lifestyle modifications such as diet, exercise, and weight loss have ...

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created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Amylin's long-delayed diabetes drug gets FDA nod

Amylin Pharmaceuticals won approval Friday for its long-delayed diabetes drug Bydureon, a next-generation treatment that requires fewer injections than the company's 7-year old diabetes medicine, Byetta.

Medicine & Health / Medications

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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

Chemicals and biofuel from wood biomass

(PhysOrg.com) -- A method developed at Aalto University in Finland makes it possible to use microbes to produce butanol suitable for biofuel and other industrial chemicals from wood biomass. Butanol is particularly ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New study may lead to better, safer drug for diabetes

A Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) study published recently in the Journal of Biological Chemistry reveals that a natural fatty acid can serve as a regulator of blood sugar levels, which may have important applications ...

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

The buzz around beer

Ever wondered why flies are attracted to beer? Entomologists at the University of California, Riverside have, and offer an explanation. They report that flies sense glycerol, a sweet-tasting compound that ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Brussels greenlights natural Latin American sweetener

Brussels gave its green light Monday to the use of the age-old natural South American sweetener, stevia, in foods and drinks across the European Union.

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created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

New study shows inflammatory food toxins found in high levels in infants

Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found high levels of food toxins called Advanced Glycation End products (AGEs) in infants. Excessive food AGEs, through both maternal blood transmission and baby formula, ...

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created Oct 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Texas AgriLife Research scientists making better melons

With the extended statewide dry spell, researchers at the Texas AgriLife Research and Extension Center in Uvalde and elsewhere have been focusing their attention on improving varieties of more drought-tolerant crops, particularly ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 20, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

FDA, CDC investigate listeriosis outbreak's source

(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration is working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to determine the source of contaminated cantaloupe blamed for a multistate listeriosis outbreak.

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created Sep 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

FDA questions safety of experimental diabetes drug

(AP) -- Federal health regulators have concerns about bladder and breast cancer seen in patients taking an experimental diabetes pill from Bristol-Myers Squibb and AstraZeneca.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jul 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Feeding hormone ghrelin modulates ability of rewarding food to evoke dopamine release

New research findings to be presented at the upcoming annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB), the foremost society for research into all aspects of eating and drinking behavior, finds that ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

TV food advertising increases children's preference for unhealthy foods

Researchers at the University of Liverpool have found that children who watch adverts for unhealthy food on television are more likely to want to eat high-fat and high-sugar foods.

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created Jun 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Liver structure could hold the key to battling diabetes

(Medical Xpress) -- Our liver could be a major springboard for determining life-changing diabetes diagnosis and treatment thanks to a world-first discovery by an Australian-Chinese research team.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 15, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast