by Fletcher Allen, University of Alabama at Birmingham Credit: CC0 Public Domain Grapes may help protect against damage to the skin caused by the sun’s ultraviolet radiation in healthy adults, according to a new study by researchers in the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Department of Dermatology. In research published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, a 74.8...
Eating too much fat and sugar as a child can alter your microbiome for life, even if you later learn to eat healthier, a new study in mice suggests. The study by UC Riverside researchers is one of the first to show a significant decrease in the total number and diversity of gut bacteria in...
by Bob Yirka , Medical Xpress Credit: CC0 Public Domain A team of researchers from the Mayo Clinic, the Saint Louis University School of Medicine and the Washington University School of Medicine has found evidence that suggests people eating foods with saturated fats may have fewer symptoms if they develop pancreatitis. In their paper published in the...
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON Current advice from the America Dental Association tells you that if your gums bleed, make sure you are brushing and flossing twice a day because it could be a sign of gingivitis, an early stage of periodontal disease. And that might be true. So if you are concerned, see your dentist. However,...
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – RIVERSIDE IMAGE: STUDY IN MICE FINDS HIGH-FAT, HIGH-SUGAR DIET HAS LONG-LASTING EFFECTS ON THE MICROBIOME. CREDIT: UCR Eating too much fat and sugar as a child can alter your microbiome for life, even if you later learn to eat healthier, a new study in mice suggests. The study by UC Riverside...
RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER Black children have significantly higher rates of shellfish and fish allergies than white children, confirming that race plays an important role in how children are affected by food allergies, researchers at Rush University Medical Center have found. Results of the study were published in the February issue of the Journal of Allergy...
By IAN RANDALL FOR MAILONLINE A diet low in serine, an amino acid in meat, fish and eggs — taken in tandem with drugs to stop its production — may provide a new approach to cancer treatment. As they grow more aggressively, cancer cells are more dependant on serine — a protein building block — than...
by British Medical Journal Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Drinking several cups of coffee every day may be linked to a lower risk of developing prostate cancer, suggests a pooled data analysis of the available evidence, published in the online journal BMJ Open. Each additional daily cup of the brew was associated with a reduction in relative risk...
by Quadram Institute Left: PulseON flour, looked at under the microscope, shows the starch (green) remains inside the plant cell wall (blue), which protects it from digestion. Right: In normal milling and processing, many plant cells rupture, exposing the starch and making it much more digestible. Credit: Quadram Institute Researchers from the Quadram Institute and...
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS M. D. ANDERSON CANCER CENTER In a study to examine a Mediterranean diet in relation to prostate cancer progression in men on active surveillance, researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center found that men with localized prostate cancer who reported a baseline dietary pattern that more closely follows the key principles...
