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A Protein-Rich Diet Combined With Exercise Found To Be More Effective In Weight Loss

...ise and that the two work together to correct body composition and dieters lose more weight and fat, than muscle. For the study researchers recruited 48 women aged around 46 years with a body mass index of 33 kg/m(2) during weight loss. Half the women were asked to eat a protein-rich diet containing specific lev...

A Vaccine for the impending pandemic Avian Influenza

... influenza situation and annual adjustments in the composition of influenza vaccines. Due to this tendency of mutation, avian influenza mixed with a human flu, and was thus able to infect humans through direct contact with birds. According to the World Health Organization, of the 115 people in four Asian count...

Bifidogenic Growth Stimulator: A Non-Toxic Way To Treat Ulcerative Colitis

... Concentrations of short-chain fatty acids and the composition of commensal bacteria, including Bifidobacteria, Enterobacteria and Bacteroides species, were studied in stool samples. Results from the study indicate that oral BGS resulted in clinical and endoscopic improvements in patients with UC. Treatment wit...

Law ensuring safety and quality of Herbal drugs

... products for medical remedies are informed of the composition of the drugs, toxicity levels and the safety of these drugs by the manufacturers. // The new directive will provide consumers with labelled information about the quality and safety of the herbal drug. The new directive will not allow registering of...

Diet Effective In Curing Diabetes

...s for three months and then monitored the chemical composition of the rats' blood and eye lenses. At levels that would be equivalent to less than five cups of tea per day for a human, both teas significantly inhibited cataract formation relative to a control group which did not get tea, according to Joe Vinson, ...

Tea Found To Boost Insulin Production And Prevent Cataract

...riod of three months. Following this, the chemical composition of the blood and eye lenses of the diabetic rats was monitored. At the end of the analysis, the results obtained showed a ray of hope, with both forms of tea effective in inhibiting cataract formation. The rats that belonged to the control group (w...

Golgi Orientation controls Neuron Growth

...an have different functional properties, molecular composition and electrical properties. So, when a cargo reaches a branch point, it's like a highway intersection, and the cargo needs to be directed. We've found that these dendritic Golgi outposts are located at the strategic points to do just that. And I belie...

Painkillers Lead To Liver Failure

... Sinutab all have this chemical as one of the main composition in them. Americans consume increased amount of this chemical everyday in the form of drugs but the rate over dosage when compared to this data is very low. But doctors say that the liver damage caused due to over dosage of this chemical has incre...

Earth Will Feel The Impact Of Global Warming

...other major changes across the world. The chemical composition of Nuttalides truempyi, which are tiny ancient sea creatures were // analyzed by the researchers Richard Norris and Flávia Nunes belonging to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, as a part of the research. The samp...

Diet Can Influence Your Mental Health As Well

...his has led to a gross disturbance in the body fat composition among humans, increasing the chances of heart attacks, diabetes etc. The wide spread use of ready to eat food items, has led to an increase in the amount of saturated body fat in the body, impairing the effective functioning of the brain. The consu...

Weight Training Improves Quality Of Life In Breast Cancer Patients

...ved the quality of life in women. "Changes in body composition and strength may empower these women with a sense of return to feeling in control of their bodies that may translate into feeling greater efficacy in other areas of life," the authors concluded. Article: "Effects of Weight Training on Quality of Li...

Mass Spectrometry to Identify Viruses

...ectrometry has been used to determine the chemical composition of materials for decades it had rarely been used to identify viruses// especially in complex environmental samples. Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health successfully separated, purified and concentrated a norovirus su...

Instrument to reveal Information about Ozone Loss

...scientific efforts have focused on determining PSC composition and their formation mechanisms, the process causing the ozone depletion is far from understood. In order to gain a better understanding of ozone depletion, scientists must continue obtaining data, which allows them to measure the key species involved...

Technology at its nano best: hand-held lab-on-a-chip for blood tests

...chnology Development Team said, “Analysis of blood composition is how doctors test for infections and deficiencie...actually needed. Since our goal is to assess blood composition on a molecular level, we only need a tiny amount. By miniaturizing the counting machine, we’re able ...

Effective Vaccine for Leishmaniasis in the Pipeline

...sed as antigens in order to control the purity and composition and avoid possible contamination. But one major drawback with carbohydrate vaccines is the difficulty in getting them to produce a strong immune response. Vaccine manufacturers achieve this by adding a booster substance called adjuvant. Seeberger’s v...

Tequila-The Real Stuff or Not

..., which focused on other chemicals or the isotopic composition found in tequila, the researchers say. The researchers also analyzed several other Mexican spirits made from Agave, including mezcal (the one with the worm in it), sotol and bacanora. With the exception of mezcal, the scientists were similarly able...

Growth Of Maple Trees Affected By Acid Rain

...odstock, N.H., where scientists have measured soil composition for the past 50 years. The scientists added nutrients in a test plot to replicate soil conditions that existed prior to the loss of sugar maples over the past 25 years. Nitric and sulphuric acid in acid rain leaches calcium from the soil. Calcium i...

New Technique For Science Experiments

... proteins to cell membranes. So-called "gradient composition surfaces"--their chemical composition changes gradually across the surface--have been shown to be powerful research tools for rapid, high-...

Ireland: Two diet drinks off the shelf due to benzene

...nks will depend on the manner it is stored and the composition of soft drinks. ...

Glycemic Index Works For Diabetes Patients

..." says Wolever. "The carbohydrate, fat and protein composition of the meals varied over a wide spectrum. The glucose responses varied over a five-fold range range, and 90 per cent of the variation was explained by the amount of carbohydrate in the meal and the GI values of the foods as given in published GI tabl...

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