UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – RIVERSIDE IMAGE: UC RIVERSIDE SCIENTISTS ARE TRYING TO FIND THE MOLECULAR BASIS OF POPULAR DIETS SUCH AS KETO AND INTERMITTENT FASTING. CREDIT: PIXABAY Scientists from UC Riverside are studying how the popular keto and intermittent fasting diets work on a molecular level, and whether both sexes benefit from them equally. The...
by Nottingham Trent University The researchers have found that TMAO makes the blood-brain barrier less leaky. Credit: Nottingham Trent University Research at Nottingham Trent University and Queen Mary University of London investigated the role of trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) a molecule which is present in people’s diets and produced by the body during digestion of fish....
by Asociacion RUVID Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Different institutions, including the University of Valencia (UV), have studied the relationship between sarcopenia (loss of muscle mass in older people) and obesity derived from this condition with a lack of protein in the diet of women over 65 years of age. 164 Valencian women participated in the...
by University of Waterloo Credit: CC0 Public Domain In the first study of its kind to explore caffeine’s effects on dynamic visual skills, researchers concluded that caffeine increases alertness and detection accuracy for moving targets. Caffeine also improved participants’ reaction times. “A lot of what happens in our environment is moving—like trying to cross a...
by Bob Yirka, Medical Xpress Credit: CC0 Public Domain A small team of researchers from the University of Washington and one with the Pennington Biomedical Research Center, has conducted a review of research conducted regarding the effectiveness of anti-aging diets and has found little to suggest they work. In their paper published in the journal Science,...
Nancy A. Melville ORLANDO, Florida — A Paleolithic elimination diet (Wahls diet) or a low-saturated fat diet (Swank diet) are associated with improved cognition, among other clinical outcomes, in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS), new research suggests. In a randomized study of patients with RRMS, the group that followed a Wahls diet and the group that followed a...
BY ABBEY BIGLER Most of the mouthwatering dishes in a Thanksgiving feast share a vital ingredient: salt! Though the words “salt” and “sodium” are often used interchangeably, table salt is actually a compound combining the elements sodium and chloride. Table salt is the most common form that sodium takes on Earth. Many other sodium compounds...
by Public Library of Science Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Drinking coffee or tea may be associated with a lower risk of stroke and dementia, according to a study of healthy individuals aged 50-74 publishing November 16th in the open-access journal PLOS Medicine. Drinking coffee was also associated with a lower risk of post-stroke dementia. Strokes are life-threatening...
by Lauren Quinn, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Plant-based burgers often promise protein comparable to their animal-based counterparts, but the way protein is expressed on current nutrition labels—a single generic value expressed in grams—can be misleading. That’s because the human body does not use “protein” per se. Instead, it needs essential...
by Bond University Dr Megan Lee of Bond University has researched the diets of vegans and vegetarians. Credit: Cavan Flynn Not all vegan and vegetarian diets are healthy—and one consequence of a low-quality plant-based diet could be poorer mental health. New research has found plant-eaters with a taste for processed foods are more susceptible to...
