Health
Gut microbiome: Meet Ruminococcus bromii, the microbe that loves carbs
The fascinating human gut bacterium Ruminococcus bromii is one of the ten most common bacterial species found in the colon.
Mar 27, 2024
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News tagged with diet
Medical research
Flies fed restricted diet in early adulthood found to live longer
Fruit flies live considerably longer when fed a diet that limits consumption of a certain amino acid during early adulthood, RIKEN biologists have found. If a similar effect occurs in humans, it could allow people to live ...
Mar 26, 2024
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Arthritis & Rheumatism
New evidence-based guideline for the management of osteoporosis in men
Worldwide, it is estimated that one in five men over the age of 50 years will experience an osteoporotic fracture in their remaining lifetime, and the number of hip fractures in men is expected to rise by approximately 310% ...
Mar 25, 2024
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
How diabetes might lead to Alzheimer's: Study suggests the liver is key
New research conducted in mice offers insights into what's going on at the molecular level that could cause people with diabetes to develop Alzheimer's disease.
Mar 25, 2024
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Health
Q&A: How can we get more people to eat climate-smart?
In a new study, Patricia Eustachio Colombo and her colleagues have developed suggestions for healthy and climate-friendly dietary patterns. Now, it's just a matter of getting us to adopt them.
Mar 22, 2024
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Health
Vitamin supplements versus a balanced diet? No contest
Global consumers spent more than $177 billion dollars on dietary supplements in 2023, with at least a quarter of that—roughly $45 billion or more—purchased by Americans, according to a study by Grand View Research, a ...
Mar 22, 2024
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Health
Replacing sugar with sweeteners can improve weight loss control over the long term in overweight adults
New research being presented at this year's European Congress on Obesity (ECO) in Venice, Italy (12-15 May), suggests that replacing sugar-sweetened food and drinks with low/no energy sweetened products can help weight control ...
Mar 21, 2024
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Gerontology & Geriatrics
New study identifies subgroups of older adults at high risk of multimorbidity
Research from the Healthy Lifespan Institute has identified subgroups of people with different health behaviors and their association with multimorbidity in older adults in England. The findings of this new study, published ...
Mar 21, 2024
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Health
Report: Canada should ban all unhealthy food marketing that may be seen by children
Canada should ban the marketing of unhealthy foods wherever children may be exposed, whether on TV, social media, or billboards. This is one of the main conclusions of a Canada-wide study involving more than fifty food and ...
Mar 20, 2024
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Gerontology & Geriatrics
Social isolation linked to biological age gap, higher mortality rate
A new study from Mayo Clinic finds that socially isolated people are more likely to show signs of being biologically older than their age and more likely to die from a variety of causes. The research, published in the Journal ...
Mar 20, 2024
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