Study shows metabolic strategy of stressed cell
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... the only concern is sugar content. Most choose to consume "diet" drinks to alleviate this concern. However, ...Ross, DMD, FAGD. Dr. Ross recommends that patients consume fewer soft drinks by limiting their intake to meals. He also advises patients to drink with a straw,...Other highlights from the March 21 JNCI
...f this study, the recommendation that women should consume diets that consist largely of fruits, vegetables, and cerealsall foods rich in lignansshould continue," the authors write. Contact: Dr.Francoise Clavel-Chapelon, National Institute of Health and Medical Research, +33 142114148, clavel@igr.fr ...Researcher to determine why oil still remains from Exxon Valdez
...elieve that micro-organisms, which would typically consume the oil, may play a key role in the oil's lack of ...along the beach would eat the oil; that they would consume it completely," Boufadel said. "That did happen at many locations, but at these particular location...Soy found protective against localized prostate cancer
...he National Cancer Center. "Given that Japanese consume isoflavones regularly throughout life, we do not k...esearchers recommend that Japanese men continue to consume isoflavones through their food and not through supplements. "Consumption of isoflavones from trad...New compound prevents alcoholic behavior, relapse in animals by blocking stress response
...dependency, as well as animals selectively bred to consume more alcohol. Injections of MTIP prevented excessive drinking of alcohol in both cases and eliminated the rats susceptibility to relapse under stress. Yet the compound did not affect their native curiosity or lower levels of drinking alcohol in rats ...Corals that can fight global warming may one day help fragile reefs
...n Tel Aviv, Israel, have isolated viruses that can consume several bacteria that are deadly to the more sensitive corals....Unique tomatoes tops in disease-fighting antioxidants
...he tomatoes and tomato-based products we currently consume are rich in all-trans-lycopene. "We don't know why our bodies seem to transform lycopene into cis-isomers, or if some isomers are more beneficial than others," Schwartz said. The researchers don't know if tomatoes rich in cis-lycopene would provi...Eating ice cream may help women to conceive, but low-fat dairy foods may increase infertility risk
...ary Guidelines for Americans recommend that adults consume three or more daily servings of low-fat milk or equivalent dairy products: a strategy that may well be deleterious for women planning to become pregnant as it would give them an 85% higher risk of anovulatory infertility according to our findings." ...Virtual duck bills demonstrate species coexistence
...the spacing of bill lamellae allow each species to consume food particles of different sizes. Research published in the March issue of the American Naturalist by Brent Gurd of Simon Fraser University has demonstrated that interspecific differences in lamellar length, not spacing, allow ducks to partition foo...Chimpanzees found to use tools to hunt mammalian prey
...hat on the one hand, it is rare for chimpanzees to consume prosimian preyin other study sites, red colobus monkeys, hunted mainly by males, are the chimps most common preyand on the other hand, the tool use appeared to be primarily restricted to females and immature individuals. These two behavior characteri...Flavanols in cocoa may offer benefits to the brain
...population still living on the Islands near Panama consume a type of cocoa rich in flavanols on a daily basis and experience unusually low rates of hypertension and cardiovascular disease. Hollenbergs latest findings, which are published this month in the International Journal of Medical Sciences, used dea...Detection of Salmonella in 24 hours
The food and drink we consume have to pass strict quality controls. Nevertheless, these measures are not always sufficient, given that sometimes certain foodstuffs can still give rise to food poisoning, most often caused by micro-organisms. The Salmonella bacterium is undoubtedly...Researchers discover master metabolism regulator with profound effect on fat metabolism
...d can repress fat synthesis and induce the body to consume virtually all of its stored fat within a few weeks of leucine deprivation. Because this response causes a striking loss of fatty tissue, we may be able to formulate a powerful new treatment for obesity." The second problem is not excess food intak...Weight-loss supplement shows good and bad traits
.... Mice serving as controls for both groups did not consume CLA. The researchers monitored insulin sensitivity in all mice throughout the study. They also monitored levels of adiponectin, a hormone secreted by fat tissue and thought to play a role in insulin resistance. "Adiponectin helps regulate insulin...Like salty food? Chances are you had low blood sodium when you were born
...low sodium (salt) in their blood serum will likely consume large quantities of dietary sodium later in life. In the study, researchers also found that newborns with the most severe cases of low sodium blood serum consumed ~1700 mg more sodium per day and weighed some 30 percent more than their peers. These...Training breathing muscles improves swimming muscles' performance
...), VO2max (the maximal volume of oxygen they could consume per minute to produce energy for exercise), and length of time they could swim at a moderately high speed. The men then were randomized to one of three training protocols: RRMT-resistance respiratory muscle training; ERMT-endurance respiratory musc...Other highlights in the Jan. 17 JNCI
...at current guidelines recommend that people simply consume recommended levels of calcium (1000 mg/day for adults up to age 50 years and 1200 mg/day for those older than 50 years). "Because no protection for colorectal cancer is apparent at higher levels of calcium intake, this recommendation is justified," t...TIGR researchers reveal tricks of common sexually transmitted infection
...y step to infection. A larger parasite could also consume more bacteria, especially the "good" lactobacilli that normally keep the vagina too acid for T. vaginalis to thrive. So bigger was better because it helped T. vaginalis remodel its environment. Repetitive gene families have expanded to more than 6...Researchers urge monitoring of bone health during chemotherapy
...prevent bone loss when needed. And patients should consume enough calcium and vitamin D and get sufficient exercise to maintain strong bones." Weilbaecher and her colleagues found that when they gave mice an eight-day course of the growth factor, called granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF), the mic...