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Research on Celiac Disease in children

...mproved so as to be equivalent anywhere. 4. More food testing is needed and standards have to be established. 5. A safe source of oats should be available. To date there have been no failures in two adult CD studies, two adult dermatitis herpetiformis studies and now two children CD studies with oats...

Ways to whiter teeth!

...m that is caused by aging and colored molecules in food and drink. Back in the Middle Ages, people used corrosive nitric acid, which bleached teeth white and kept it white for a while and then, destroyed them! However, dentists have now discovered many easy and ingenuous ways of maintaining teeth// white ...

Scientists locate key hormone involved in appetite control

...c intake and the hormone diminishes in response to food intake. The scientists used a method pioneered by OHSU researchers Cowley, Roger Cone, Ph.D., and Malcolm Low, M.D., Ph.D. to pinpoint and witness the effects of the hormone in the brain. They used a fluorescent protein to highlight certain neurons,...

Can one get addicted to fast food?

...s people start gaining weight due to a steady fast food diet, they become more resistant to a brain peptide called galanin that stimulates eating// and to leptin, a hormone which is strongly linked to weight and appetite. Leptin releases signals to the part of the brain that co-ordinates eating behaviour....

Reducing the risk for type 2 diabetes

...mal. People with diabetes have problems converting food to energy. Food is broken down into a sugar called...nt includes taking diabetes medicines, making wise food choices, exercising regularly, taking aspirin daily, and controlling blood pressure and cholesterol....

Reduce watching TV to prevent Obesity and Diabetes

...w physical activity levels, resulting in increased food and total energy intake. TV watching burns less energy compared to other sedentary activities like sewing, reading, writing, and driving a car....

Eat Like a Greek for Good Health

...tion. The study was not able to show that any one food or ingredient had a marked impact on reducing heart disease or cancer, but researchers pointed to the balance of healthy foods: the monounsaturated fat of olive oil, a high intake of fruits and vegetables, along with nuts, legumes and unrefined grain...

Food May Trigger Life-Threatening Asthma

For the first time, food allergy -- especially to peanuts -- has been shown...hildren with a life-threatening asthma attack were food allergic compared with only 10 percent of those who had asthma but did not require ventilation. Of t...

Skip Breakfast, Get Fat

...til the plate's clean. If the plate has a lot less food on it, perhaps you'll be eating less," Researchers launched their study because experts don't fully understand how eating habits -- such as the timing and frequency of meals -- are tied to obesity.The researchers examined a national cholesterol study...

Scientists push to lower hidden sodium in food

... day. Now public health specialists are pressuring food manufacturers and restaurants to cut the salt, bec...ge the recipe but keep the taste. On one thing do food makers and health critics agree: Making our food supply less salty will require consumer demand, and...

Bowel diseases linked to bug in milk

...t be demonstrated by the available evidence. The food standards agency said the government was seeking to find ways in which MAP might be killed by changes in pasteurisation. It believed precautionary action to reduce human exposure to MAP should start now and not depend on a link with disease in humans...

Depression Weighs Heaviest on the Elderly

...n without sadness." A person may complain that his food doesn't taste good, that he's not sleeping and that he is having trouble remembering things and making decisions. Memory and other cognitive problems may combine to make the person seem to have dementia, says Dr. Howard Berkowitz, director of the c...

Benefits of Eating Whole Grains, Fruits and Vegetables

... than 15,000 people. The participants filled out a food frequency questionnaire to determine dietary intake. The study included information on the participants for more than 11 years. Researchers report those who ate whole grains had a lower risk of death and a lower risk of heart disease. They also foun...

Extra hormone found to cut appetite by a third

...s recruited 24 people: 12 obese and 12 lean. Their food consumption was monitored twice, once after an int...nd the lean eating about 34 percent less, based on food diaries they kept. The PYY did not affect food consumption from 12 hours to 24 hours after the infu...

SARS research confirms link to animals

...als recently captured //and being held in a retail food market. The animals were found to have a corona v...s and ferret badgers that were offered for sale as food in a market in Shenzhen, but said it is not clear if these animals were the natural source of the vi...

Good carb, bad carb? Experts debate.

...e been told to eat, which is too much fast-burning food that plays havoc with metabolism by quickly raisin...ugar levels. All of that starch at the base of the food pyramid has had the unintended effect of making us ravenous. "It's almost unethical to tell people ...

Better Diet Even Late in Life May Prolong It

...ffects of processes, like oxidation, that occur as food is digested. But Partridge says this theory can't explain why flies changed to restricted diets later in life did just as well as those who had been on restricted diets their whole lives. "Dietary restriction late in adulthood is just as beneficial ...

New heart-healthy corn due in stores by 2007

...educing harmful cholesterol.// Corn oil and other food products with this heart-healthy strain as an ingr...s saved for making animal feed. The oil is sold to food processors to use as an ingredient for other products or is sold as cooking oil. Scientists are wa...

Same molecule found in meat, milk, tumors

...mendations that people should not consume too much food containing saturated fats, such as dairy products and red meats. The highest amount [of Neu5Gc] was found in lamb, pork, and beef [so-called 'red meat']," said researchers. Levels were very low or undetectable in poultry and fish, vegetables and hen...

New Drug for Diabetes

...even when they take insulin to cover the amount of food eaten. Insulin stimulates the removal of glucose in the blood, but Doctors say, "What's happening is you're making excess glucagon following a meal." The hormone amylin works to control the output of that glucagons. Thus taking insulin without replac...

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