Tag: "sweet" at medical news

Increase in sugar...decrease in brain function!!!

...g sleepy; having dry eyes, nose or mouth, having a sweet taste in their mouth and needing to urinate, which were the symptoms of high blood sugar, were studied by the researchers from the Center for Behavioral Medicine Research at the University of Virginia. When tested for mental mathematical tests and ve...

Comprehension of taste receptor

...ample, T1R2 and T1R3 joined together function as a sweet receptor. The researchers have found that combini...e now been identified for amino acids, bitter, and sweet tastes. The US researchers hope this will allow them to map the system so they can understand how ta...

Sweet corn releases antioxidants on cooking

...ants have always been beneficial to our body. When sweet corn is heated, its antioxidant content is release...enerally in a form bound to the cell wall. Cooking sweet corn releases a lot of ferulic acid which, like other antioxidants, mops up free radicals which migh...

Indian Cherry: Richest Source of Vitiamin C

...g industries. The ripe fruit has sour and slightly sweet taste. Apart from West Indian Cherry, other cherries are also nutritionally and medicinally rich. The day may not be far off when the doctor says “Take ten cherries and call me in the morning”....

Keep fit with salads

...You can serve a sprouted salad for breakfast and a sweet one as a desert. Dieters are advised to start heir meal with a bowl of fresh salad. Salads are extremely nutritive and good for your hair, skin and nails. They provide us with the much-needed vitamins and minerals, which are essential for a balanced ...

Want to have a nice day? Eat breakfast!

...ing an overnight fast or the consumption of only a sweet food or coffee or both. The brain is forced to dep...of people who eat breakfast, some manage to grab a sweet roll or a fast food sandwich and coffee. However, these do not make up an adequate breakfast as they...

Good carb, bad carb? Experts debate.

...reakfast cereals break down in a flash, while some sweet things, like apples and pears, take their time. In general, starchy foods like refined grain products and potatoes have a high GI -- 50 percent higher than table sugar. Unprocessed grains, peas and beans have a moderate GI. Nonstarchy vegetables and...

New heart-healthy corn due in stores by 2007

...other healthy varieties such as popcorn and yellow sweet corn. Scientists bred corn with Eastern gama grass, a purple or orange-bloomed plant, and came up with a corn high in oleic fatty acid -- a type of unsaturated fat that raises levels of good cholesterol to prevent arteries from clogging.Oleic acid ...

Hunger Found To Influence Taste

...ize bitter tastes. Researchers say, instinctively, sweet and salty tastes indicate edible substances, while...c deprivation decreases recognition thresholds for sweet and salty stimuli but it did not affect the taste sensitivity to a bitter substance. ...

Understanding Food Preferences in Kids

...e to bitter tastes or have an especially strong // sweet tooth. Researchers found variation in a taste rece... found to be the strongest determinants in adults' sweet preferences , thus they say that the forces of experience and culture appear to have overridden the ...

Understanding The Link Between Hunger and Taste

...ize bitter tastes. Researchers say, instinctively, sweet and salty tastes indicate edible substances, while...c deprivation decreases recognition thresholds for sweet and salty stimuli but it did not affect the taste sensitivity to a bitter substance. ...

Raisins for your gum care

...o feel that their study proves that foods that are sweet are not necessarily bad for the teeth but it’s the added sugar in the food that causes the maximum damage...

Top Ten Super Food Items That Can Help In Avoiding Cancer

...tenoids include: carrots, yams, squash, melons and sweet red peppers. 8) SPINACH: It has antioxidant lutein. Prevents cancers of liver, ovaries, colon and prostate. Antioxidant lutein is also found in kale and other leafy greens. 9) APPLE: Apple a day keeps the doctor away!! It has quercetin and pecti...

Learning Just How Different We Are

... the fourth chromosome is responsible for sense of sweet taste and Identical twins have identical DNA but not identical fingerprints. Links from medindia: http://www.medindia.net/know_ur_body/ genetics.asp http://www.medindia.net/dietandnutrition /nutrition.asp...

Top Ten Super Food Items That Can Help In Avoiding Cancer

...tenoids include: carrots, yams, squash, melons and sweet red peppers. 8) SPINACH: It has antioxidant lutein. Prevents cancers of liver, ovaries, colon and prostate. Antioxidant lutein is also found in kale and other leafy greens. 9) APPLE: Apple a day keeps the doctor away!! It has quercetin and pectin...

Chocolate To Combat Cancer: So Indulge!

...necessarily apply to the real world and eating the sweet may not help prevent or treat cancer.No need to despair, you never know when this research comes up with a finding that it is applicable in the real world too. So stay tuned and glued to any news research finding!Source: Molecular Cancer Therapeutics...

High-Vegetable & Fruit Diet Reduce The Risk Of Pancreatic Cancer

..., beans, yellow vegetables (such as carrots, yams, sweet potatoes, corn and yellow squash), dark leafy vegetables and cruciferous vegetables. Light-green vegetables, tomatoes and tomato products showed weaker protective benefits. Fruits were found to be protective but significantly less so than vegetables...

Breast milk promotes cavity formation in babies

...lop cavities and dental erosion when they were fed sweet liquids like soda and honey-sweetened water. Human milk did slow down the process of cavity formation, but this effect was substantially less as compared to cow's milk....

Discovery of a built-in 'fat sensor'

...g fat, just as it does for salty, sour, bitter and sweet foods. The study, which appears in the November issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation,// suggests that rats and mice exhibit a spontaneous attraction for lipids. Such a behavior raises the possibility that an orosensory system is responsib...

Sweet May Reduce Weight

...researchers have found that by eating and drinking sweet the hormone level is reduced causing no increase in weight and obesity. Professor Ulrich-Lai and her team from University of Cincinnati have experimented their study in lab rats in which the test group of rats was given sugary drink twice a day and...

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