Study Shows Changing Gut Bacteria Through Diet Affects Brain Function
A newly published study found that women who regularly consumed beneficial bacteria known as probiotics through yogurt showed altered brain function in many areas, including…
A newly published study found that women who regularly consumed beneficial bacteria known as probiotics through yogurt showed altered brain function in many areas, including…
A newly published study suggests that a “Western-style” diet reduces a person’s likelihood of achieving older ages in good health, finding that avoidance of the…
Study Highlights: Sugar-sweetened beverages may be linked to about 180,000 deaths in the world each year. Countries in the Caribbean/Latin America had among the…
A new study from the University of Barcelona found that eating a Mediterranean diet supplemented with extra-virgin olive oil or tree nuts reduced the…
A newly published study from the University of Adelaide shows that calcified dental plaque (dental calculus) found on ancient teeth from 34 early European skeletons…
New research from the University of Oxford suggests that a vegetarian diet could significantly reduce people’s risk of heart disease, finding that vegetarians have…
Researchers at UCLA have shown that body-fat responses to high-fat, high-sugar diets have a very strong genetic component and have identified several genetic factors potentially…
In a new study, scientists found that older adults who drank at least four cups of diet soda a day were 31 percent more likely…
Scientists have shown, using imaging tests, that fructose can trigger brain changes that lead to overeating. They found that after drinking a fructose beverage, the…
A newly published study found that a diet heavy in complex sugars and carbohydrate-rich foods is likely to lead to a recurrence of colorectal cancer…
A new study has calculated the energetic cost of growing a bigger brain. If humans had been eating a raw food diet exclusively, they would…
The World Health Organization recommends five servings of fruits and vegetable every day to keep the human body healthy, but how much is needed to…
It might seem that Carcharodon carcharias choose seals and sea lions as their preferred prey, but studies indicate that great white sharks consume different prey…
Drastically cutting back on calorie intake doesn’t seem to lengthen the lifespan in primates. This conclusion comes from a 25-year study in rhesus monkeys fed…
Analyzing medical exam and mortality data from more than 14,000 adults has helped a team of scientists develop a new measure of obesity that incorporates…
A study by scientists at Cornell’s Center for Behavioral Economics in Child Nutrition Programs suggests that the presence of certain foods in school cafeterias may…
A new study from Boston Children’s Hospital found that all calories are not created equal, suggesting that a low-glycemic load diet is more effective than…
The Tomato Genomics Consortium fully sequenced the genome of the tomato, Solanum Lycopersicum. They report in the Journal Nature that tomatoes possess some 35,000 genes…