Teen soft drink consumption often misstated
... of age), consume an average of about one 12-ounce serving of carbonated soft drinks a day. Adolescent boys consume an average of 1.6 12-ounce servings of carbonated soft drinks a day. The relationship between food and beverage consumption, physical inactivity and obesity is complex. Great discipline will ...Lazy snakes! Pythons can be couch potatoes, too
...not assimilated. The findings suggest that a large serving of one particular type of food does probably not trigger the large SDA increment well known in this species. The researchers' next steps are to investigate SDA induced by specific amino acids and amino acid mixtures and digestive assimilation efficie...Pythons can be couch potatoes, too
...not assimilated. The findings suggest that a large serving of one particular type of food probably does not trigger the large SDA increment well known in this species. The researchers' next steps are to investigate SDA induced by specific amino acids and amino acid mixtures and digestive assimilation efficie...Ocean aquaculture: Technology, business practices, policies & caviar
...nsive national ocean policy. She also is currently serving as Acting President of the Consortium for Oceanogr...damage. Virginia Sea Grant Educator Vicki Clark is serving as President of the National Marine Educators Association and chairing the organization's annual mee...Vessel reporting a weak link in national strategy to stem the flow of alien organisms to the U.S.
...ra mussels from Eurasia clogged water supply pipes serving municipalities in the Great Lakes region. However, this was not an isolated event. Non-native species are established along every coast of the U.S., and scores to hundreds of non-native species are known to reside in individual bays and estuaries ...Cranberry may offer protection against antibiotic-resistant bacteria that cause UTIs
...ours in the urine, which suggests that consuming a serving in the morning and one in the evening may provide ...ective anti-adhesion protection than consuming one serving a day." A common misconception is that cranberries help maintain urinary tract health by acidifying ...Jorge R. Barrio, PhD receives Aebersold Award for research
...supports nuclear medicine research. In addition to serving on a number of SNM committees, including government relations and FDA Radiopharmaceuticals, he is editor-in-chief of Molecular Imaging and Biology and a member of the Division of Drug Information (US Pharmacopoeia). He is a member of the National Aca...MIT's biorubber ushers in new possibilities in tissue engineering
...ng, and more. Whether impregnated with medicine or serving as a scaffold for growing cells, such polymers are eventually absorbed by the body when their work is done. Until now, however, none of these polymers has had the defining property of a rubberband: the ability to stretch then snap back to an origina...Bacteria point the way to gold deposits
...oils, which suggested the possibility of B. cereus serving as a biogeochemical indicator of underlying gold deposits. This bioindex system may help geologists to locate the gold deposits at low cost and with improved efficiency, says Dr. Hongmei Wang of Ohio State University, one of the researchers on the st...Happy 80th birthday, vitamin E!
...her nutrients. For the same number of calories per serving for foods like pretzels or potato chips, almonds clearly deliver much more nutrition bang for the same buck." Trailing farther behind almonds as natural alpha-tocopherol sources are whole foods including hazelnuts, avocados, mangos and peanuts. ...President Bush names 15 to receive National Medal of Science
...oan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City after serving as director of the National Institutes of Health for six years. The other laureates in biological sciences have done ground breaking work on the brain and the environment, and how they affect our daily lives. Ann M. Graybiel of M.I.T. did pioneering...Protecting drinking water from disease transmission by means of zeolite filters
..., zeolites do not swell in water but remain rigid, serving as a filter through which water can pass freely. Zeolites possess a negative surface charge, which limits their natural ability to attract viruses. In order to reverse this charge, the scientists treated zeolites with a chemical, abbreviated HDTMA (...Greatest threat to Asia's wildlife is hunting, scientists say
... snakes are imported to Shanghai, China, each year serving as a luxury food item for that city's burgeoning middle class. The international trade in birds is astonishing in its scale, with over 350,000 sold in a Jakarta, Indonesia market annually, and 276 species sold annually in Bangkok's Weekend Market. ...Tufts University reports high protein intake and calcium supplementation helps healthy bones
...ment (500 mg), one cup of fat-free milk, one 8-oz. serving of yogurt, and a 1-oz. slice of cheese. The average protein intake by the volunteers in the study was 79 grams per day (g/d), and the adults who ate the most protein averaged 96 g/d. The recommended protein intake for a healthy person is between 40......tribution of binaural types across the two regions serving echolocation and passive listening, suggesting tha...he need for dual-stream processing is that regions serving echolocation and passive listening have substrates for independent spatial representation. These in...Study reveals new information on how viruses enter cells
... is the key component of the virus, Rossmann says, serving as a "nerve center" and sending signals to and from the virus' head and tail fibers. While transmitting its messages, the baseplate also prepares the virus machinery to eject its DNA into the host cell. "A whole series of events are required ......IL-1 receptors which are distributed in the brain, serving to balance IL-1 activity. The authors found a significant association of a common genetic variation in the gene encoding IL-1Ra with ADHD. Children carrying a variant gene sequence show a significant small increase in susceptibility to express ADHD. ...Bone strength probed by scientists
...agen, the most abundant protein in the human body serving as a structural component of a variety of tissues including bone, tendon and skin reveals special properties which allow it to "bounce back" when pulled or stressed in laboratory experiments. The AFM operates by tapping and pulling with a tiny need...Ohio State scientists bake heart healthy soy bread
...in daily. For a soy product to meet this claim, a serving needs to provide 6.25 grams of soy protein, as well as be low in fat, low in saturated fat, and low in cholesterol. Vodovotz says their soy bread meets all of those requirements. She and one of her students, Cory Ballard, a food scientist who ......" High 5-Kids also teaches parents about correct serving sizes for preschool-age children. "Between television commercials and fast-food restaurants pushing their super-sized portions, children and parents no longer seem to know what a normal portion is," said Dr. Haire-Joshu. "For a preschool child, two b...