Study: Artificial sweetener may disrupt body's ability to count calories
...se of taste to gauge calories. So, the body may be fooled into thinking a product sweetened with sugar has no calories and, therefore, people overeat." Swithers said that the loss of the body's ability to gauge caloric intake contributes to increased food intake and weight gain, especially when people do no...As obesity skyrockets, Joslin Diabetes Center urges action to stem the tide of type 2 diabetes
...h calorie snacks to kids. Too often are consumers fooled by foods that look healthy but are excessively calorically dense, like mixtures of yogurt and fruit whips, or by misleading caloric information, like reporting calories on a giant cookie snack assuming the portion eaten will be only one quarter of th......rt by any Other Name is Still a Squirt : Don't be fooled by the cute assumed name. Sea squirts are the invasive species Didemnum vexillum, recently found on the northern edge of Georges Bank, about 160 miles off outer Cape Cod, colonizing a 6.5 square mile area at a depth of just over 150 feet. Georges Ba...Biological clock more influenced by temperature than light
...ture cycle. The temperature cycle entrained it. We fooled the clock by giving it a novel daily schedule, saying 'This isn't the end of the day. This is morning.'" Herzog's research also sought to disprove the notion put forth in 1998 that shining light on the backs of the knees would be enough to adjust ...Engineered proteins will lead to 'synthetic biology'
...ensing and serotonin-sensing proteins could not be fooled by "decoy" molecules that were very closely related to TNT or serotonin in structure. Also, the lactate-detecting protein preferentially bound only to one chiral form of the molecule, proving that the design system could produce such specific sensing...Study of vision disorder leads to discovery of new family of ion channels
...t Nathans points out that many scientists had been fooled in the past into thinking they had found an ion channel when what they were actually seeing was the activity of their test cell, not the protein they were studying. To prove they had found an ion channel, the scientists conducted several additional ...Don't be fooled about your oral health: AAP uncovers common misconceptions
...demy of Periodontology (AAP) doesnt want you to be fooled about taking care of your teeth and gums, which could negatively affect your teeth in the years to come. There are still many myths about oral health that people truly believe, said Kenneth Bueltmann, D.D.S., president of the American Academy of Per...Turning salt and water into wine
...the remaining roots kept well watered, the vine is fooled in thinking that most of its roots are drying out. It produces chemical signals that close the stomates and cause reduced shoot growth and leaf area, thus conserving water. The wet roots, however, keep the plant healthy and productive. The plant ...Protracted cooling could camouflage effects of global warming
...g doesn't persist year after year, we shouldn't be fooled into thinking that human effects are no longer of concern. There is something else at work here that we don't yet fully comprehend." Using a simple climate/ocean model, Schlesinger and his wife, Natalia Andronova -- also an atmospheric scientist at ...Researchers Identify Key Gene That Controls Emergence Of Salmonella
...of Illinois. In the laboratory, thescientists even fooled the bacteria in onestrain into switching back and forth between these two forms. The finding, says Richard E. Isaacson, a professor of veterinary pathobiology,is the first documentation of aphase-shifting process in salmonella and in any food-borne b...