Designer diets: ACS symposium will explore relationships between diet and genes, August 28-29
...usinesses that are built around creating specialty diets and providing products and services based on an in...rmick Place South, Room S505A, Level 5.) Low-fat diets may not benefit everyone Ronald M. Krauss, M.D., of the University of Californias Lawrence Berkele...Flaxseed may fight breast cancer in postmenopausal women
... linen. Flaxseed is not commonly used in womens diets in this country, although it is being increasingly used as part of a new wave of specialty food products that target women. A growing number of women take flaxseed to relieve symptoms of menopause and decrease the risk of heart disease and osteoporos...American Chemical Society meeting features cutting-edge research August 26-30 in Chicago
...on. (Tuesday, August 28, 12:15 p.m.) Designer diets target disease In the future, researchers may be able to design diets that are custom-tailored to the shape of our individual genetic profiles. Scientists believe the eme...Bizarre new protein blocks a real-life terminator
... amounts of tryptophan for normal development, and diets poor in tryptophan can result in pellagra - a disease of the skin and central nervous system caused by niacin deficiency. The terminator In the 1970s, Yanofsky and his colleagues discovered a previously unknown mechanism for regulating tryptophan ...Nitrogen: Too much of a good thing?
...dually changing the nutritional make-up of peoples diets in both affluent and modernizing countries. Tuesday October 16, 2001: Nitrogen Around the World and Its Affects On day two, speakers from the Netherlands, China, and the United States will give conference participants a global view of the nitrogen ch...Soy protein prevents skin tumors from developing in mice, UC Berkeley researchers find
...logical studies in Japan and China, where soy-rich diets are common, show people in those regions have sign...se than people in Western countries, where typical diets contain little to no soy. In 1999, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration allowed manufacturers to u...Men and women drinking equal amounts of alcohol have unequal risks for liver damage
...gh, Pa. Methodology and Results Rats were fed diets containing alcohol or alcohol-free diets for 30 days to induce fatty liver with minimal necrosis and inflammation. Microarray analysis was p...Black raspberries show multiple defenses in thwarting cancer
... raspberries, while others received diets consisting of 5 percent or 10 ...ment. By week 15 of the study, diets of 5 and 10 percent black raspberries appeared to decrease tumor occurrence and ...NSF awards two plant genome grants to University of Minnesota
...sease." "Legumes are important in human and animal diets because they're protein-rich," said Kate VandenBos...n intake, and people have historically based their diets on a combination of legumes and grain. In Middle America it was beans and corn, in the Far East soyb...Single enzyme may be linked to obesity
...in the abdominal region of non-Tg mice on high-fat diets was comparable to that of Tg mice on low-fat diets. The ratio was further exaggerated when Tg mice were fed high-fat diets. We were surprised to find that it took only a modest increase in this enzyme to cause the mice to become viscerally obese. The...Researchers call herbs rich source of healthy antioxidants; oregano ranks highest
...ing to researchers. Westerners still tend to favor diets that are rich in fats and carbohydrates, they say. More recently, researchers have begun to formally study the health benefits of herbs and spices. The two differ mainly by source. Herbs typically come from the leaves of plants. Spices come from the ...Experts offer the skinny on search for healthy fat
...ts that we replace some of the omega-6 fats in our diets with the omega-3s in order to have a healthier balance of essential fats, that's easier said than done. Diets that are too high in omega-6 fats have been associated with chronic diseases, such as heart disease, arteriosclerosis, diabetes and inflamma...Cave men diets offer insights to today's health problems, study shows
...nal analysis with anthropologic research about the diets of ancient hunter-gatherer societies. But there's ... Cordain says. This is despite the fact that their diets aren't going to reap praise from many modern nutritionists. "Previous studies by myself and colleagu...New nutrition guidelines for diabetics promote emphasis on high-monounsaturated fat diet
...e-based guidelines, which emphasize individualized diets and a variety of food choices. Gargs research showing the benefits of a high-monounsaturated fat diet was instrumental in leading to the change in guidelines. In the past a diet rich in carbohydrates and low in fats was recommended to all patients w...USF presents new research on hyperlipidemic children
... the subjects were on were on a relatively low fat diets at baseline. Dr. Mietus-Snyder believes that these discoveries pose new and important questions about the regulation of PON1 activity. Additional research will be necessary to unravel the important genetic-environmental interactions that may affe...Proliferation of Argentine ants in California linked to decline in coastal horned lizards
...horned lizards grow normally. "A comparison of diets among age classes of coastal horned lizards suggests a diversity of ants is necessary to support lizard populations," write Suarez and Case in their paper in the February issue of Ecological Applications. "The diet of horned lizards changes as th...URI Graduate School of Oceanography scientists examine the success of restored salt marshes
...he National Marine Fisheries Service, compared the diets of salt marsh predators in restored and undisturbed marshes to help determine the success or failure of a restoration project. The results of the study, funded by the National Marine Fisheries Service Restoration Center, were published in a recent is...Purdue to help NASA create life-supporting ecosystem in space
...r and other exotic mushrooms in the process. Space diets might be more varied than some people would expect, said Mitchell, who in addition to directing the center will be in charge of research dealing with food production. People living in space will grow a variety of crops, including legumes such as cow...Does a vegan diet have a moral basis?
...killed during crop production and harvest. "Vegan diets are not bloodless diets," Davis said. "Millions of animals die every year to provide products used in vegan diets." Davis presented his research last fall at a meeting of the European Society for Agriculture and Food Ethics, in Florence, Italy. There...Dietary changes can lower colon cancer risk in families with a history of the disease
...story of colorectal cancer who consumed low-folate diets were 2.5 times more likely to develop colon cancer than similar individuals who did not have a family history. In contrast, among participants on a high-folate diet, those with a family pattern of colorectal cancer did not experience any significant...