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Better Treatment for obesity

...ats, OEA caused the rats to eat significantly less food and gain weight at a slower pace. Studies are now under way to investigate how OEA works on a cellular and molecular level, and to determine whether OEA has appetite-suppressing effects in humans, the researcher noted....

Exercises reduce risks of cancers

...r development, or perhaps alter the speed at which food moves through the bowel, which may also have a bearing. Professor Gordon McVie, Director General of the Cancer Research Campaign, said: regular physical activity doesn't have to mean running a marathon each week. "A brisk walk for half an hour, fiv...

Cut down on fries

... cancer.Scientists found that women who eat fried food each morning are at twice the risk of the most com... cereal or fruit. Cancer of the oesophagus - the food pipe connecting the stomach with the upper throat - affects approximately 11,000 people every year....

Alcohol within the body

...thin the body itself. Dr Diehl thinks undigested food might stay in the intestines of obese people for l...llow normally harmless gut bacteria to ferment the food and produce alcohol, which would then cause fat to form in the liver. Dr Diehl's team tested the t...

Armpit odour enhances mood

... perfumes or deodorants, or eating strong smelling food for four days, although they were allowed to take showers using unscented soap. Throughout this period, a gauze pad strapped under the arm absorbed any odour they produced. Then more than 300 university students sampled smells taken at random, fill...

Cinnamon combats Diabetes

...tive against the E.coli bacterium, which can cause food poisoning....

Fight against E.coli

...ctable level. Professor Daniel Fung, an expert in food science at Kansas State, said: "Cinnamon contains a compound that has the ability to kill bacteria. It has natural killing power. "If cinnamon can knock out E.coli 0157:H7, one of the most virulent food-borne microorganisms that exists today, it will...

Weight-Loss Drinks Can Make You Gassy

...on low-fat meal replacement supplements. Many such food substitutes contain milk-based powders that users mix with fat-free milk, before drinking as a replacement for a meal. The researchers found that those who consumed the high-lactose preparation experienced a large increase in intestinal gas. The wo...

Protein and fat improve memory

All types of food energy, not just carbohydrates, appear to enhance ...ks of equal calories compared to a placebo with no food energy, regardless of the drinks’ effects on blood glucose levels. The positive results occurred in...

Cooked vegetables give more iron

...our body can absorb from them.// Tung-Ching Lee, a food scientist at Rutgers University in New Jersey, te...king; heating simply causes the iron stored in the food to be released, making more of it available to the body for absorption. For instance, Lee found that...

Less sodium,less pressure

... salt shaker from their tables. She calls upon the food industry to reduce the amount of salt added to food products and to make more low-salt food items available....

High vitamin A increases risk of hip fractures

...at women with the highest total intake - both from food and vitamin supplements - had double the risk of hip fractures compared with women with the lowest intake. One theory is that too much vitamin A inhibits the ability of Vitamin D to help the body absorb calcium, said lead author, Diane Feskanich, a...

Diet, Sunlight connected to Breast Cancer Risk

... and Europe. Such data reflects only the supply of food in a given country, and not the food intakes of different people. Grant evaluated exposure to the sun's ultraviolet-B (UV-B) rays based o...

Arginine food bar assists people with angina

A medical food bar enriched with arginine and vitamins increased ... US have just disclosed good results for a medical food bar having arginine and a cocktail of vitamins along with soy isoflavones. A group of 30 patients wi...

Herbs: rich soure of antioxidants

...lture have found that herbs, in addition to making food tastier, are an abundant source of antioxidants an...what may be good news for pizza lovers and Italian food connoisseurs everywhere, the herbs with the highest antioxidant activity belonged to the oregano fam...

Obesity a global problem

...es. Now, rapid shifts in urbanisation, technology, food processing and even leisure time in developing countries are causing a rise in obesity levels. Paradoxically, childhood malnutrition and stunted growth may be found hand-in-hand with adult obesity in many places. The phenomenon means countries that ...

Herbs: rich soure of antioxidants

...lture have found that herbs, in addition to making food tastier, are an abundant source of antioxidants an...what may be good news for pizza lovers and Italian food connoisseurs everywhere, the herbs with the highest antioxidant activity belonged to the oregano fam...

Dangerous food bacteria

Scientists say the bacteria that cause food poisonings aren't going away, despite the efforts of the food industry to eliminate them.New germs arrive in imported foods and bacteria develop in new forms, acc...

Resurgence Of Botulism

...ould lead to the resurgence of botulism as a major food poisoning hazard. Advances in freezing have made b...a rare problem in modern society. But according to food scientists, a new generation of ready-to-eat foods// that are only refrigerated before sold could ca...

Importance of Fatty food In Hypercholestrolemia

According to Australian scientists fast food meals may be quick and easy, but no matter how we justify them, we know they are loaded with fat. Now there is new reason to restrict the junk you eat. Your arteries stiffen within hours.// Researcher Paul Nestel, of melbourne's Baker Medical Resear...

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