Eating a biscuit fortified with resistant starch every day could prove a low-cost way to reduce infant mortality rates from malnutrition and common diseases around the world.
Mar 28, 2016
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A healthy gut could help prevent deadly side effect of bone marrow transplant
Mar 21, 2016
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General Mills said Friday it will start labeling products across the country that contain genetically modified ingredients to comply with a law set to go into effect in Vermont.
Mar 18, 2016
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Although renowned for creating delight in children, farts are not considered the best way to make friends and influence people.
Nov 19, 2015
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Food labels seem to provide all the information a thoughtful consumer needs, so counting calories should be simple. But things get tricky because food labels tell only half the story.
Jan 6, 2015
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Seventeenth-century Oxford scholar Robert Burton's lifework, The Anatomy of Melancholy, weighs in at a door-stopping 1,400 pages. But his cure for the "Black Choler" of depression came down to just six words: "Be not solitary, ...
Oct 29, 2014
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Scientists from the University of Liverpool have demonstrated the effectiveness of a fibre-based dietary ingredient that makes people feel less hungry and consume less food.
Aug 26, 2014
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Consumption of a type of starch that acts like fiber may help reduce colorectal cancer risk associated with a high red meat diet, according to a study published in Cancer Prevention Research, a journal of the American Association ...
Aug 4, 2014
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Salivary amylase is a gene present in humans. Yet its number of copies can vary from one to 20, depending on the individual. Having a low copy number of the gene, which digests complex sugars (starches), favors obesity, according ...
Apr 8, 2014
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(Medical Xpress)—Researchers at Iowa State University are mapping the potentially far-reaching health benefits of starches that take extra time to digest.
Jun 21, 2013
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