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Biodiesel study targets cleaner air, cleaner engines

...e from locally available sources, including animal fats and plant oils such as soybean, sunflower and canola. During normal farm field work, a research team from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada tested both pure and blended biodiesel, in which the renewable fuel is mixed with petroleum diesel. Evalua...

Skimmed milk -- Straight from the cow

... likely by 2011. The milk is very low in saturated fats and so should be high in polyunsaturates and monou...e if whole milk can be made to contain unsaturated fats – which are good for you – then it might mean that people change back to whole milk products. The bi...

Hormone helps mice 'hibernate,' survive starvation

... energy, spurs a metabolic shift to burning stored fats instead of carbohydrates and induces a hibernation...e. FGF21, in turn, stimulates the use of stored fats as energy and causes torpor. In properly fed mice, FGF21 is not normally active; however, when the r...

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