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New study with lean pork reveals protein's power to preserve lean body mass during weight loss
Reducing daily caloric intake is typically the first approach that dieters take to shed those unwanted pounds.   view more (2007-02-13)

Discovery Prospects at the Large Hadron Collider
Will scientists ever find the elusive Higgs particle, the last of the fundamental particles predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics and postulated to play a major role in how fundamental particles get their masses?   view more (2006-04-25)

Children's consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages
A recent study published in Pediatrics and led by researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health found that sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) are an increasingly large part of children and teens' diets.   view more (2008-06-03)

Artificial sweeteners linked to weight gain
Want to lose weight" It might help to pour that diet soda down the drain. Researchers have laboratory evidence that the widespread use of no-calorie sweeteners may actually make it harder for people to control their intake and body weight.   view more (2008-02-11)

Study shows complex link between abuse and eating disorders
Women who were victims of childhood sexual abuse have long been assumed to be at a higher risk for eating disorders. The results of research, however, have been mixed, with some studies showing a link and others none.   view more (2005-12-20)

Dieting Danger: Female Athletes Limiting Calories More Likely to Get Stress Fractures
Female college athletes on low-calorie diets could be putting themselves at risk for stress fractures, according to new Saint Louis University research published in this month's The American Journal of Sports Medicine.   view more (2006-09-14)

New Study Examines Brain-Gut Relationship in those Suffering with Stomach Pain or Discomfort (Functional Dyspepsia)
A new clinical study will explore the brain-gut interaction in patients with functional dyspepsia and whether certain drugs can effectively relieve symptoms of this disorder.   view more (2007-09-06)

Decline in Alaskan sea otters affects bald eagles' diet
Sea otters are known as a keystone species, filling such an important niche in ocean communities that without them, entire ecosystems can collapse.   view more (2008-10-03)

Restricting Kids' Video Time Reduces Obesity, Randomized Trial Shows
Entrenched sedentary behavior such as watching television and playing computer video games has been the bane for years of parents of overweight children and physicians trying to help those children lose pounds.   view more (2008-03-04)

Joslin study reveals how a specific fat type can protect against weight gain and diabetes
A new study from Joslin Diabetes Center may shed light on why some people can eat excessive amounts of food and not gain weight or develop type 2 diabetes, while others are more likely to develop obesity and this most common form of diabetes on any diet.   view more (2007-03-02)

Brainstem blocks pain to protect key behaviors
Certain behaviors, such as eating, drinking and urinating, are so crucial to survival that the brains of all vertebrates contain clusters of nerve cells that can suppress pain long enough to allow the animal to eat, drink - or pee - in peace.   view more (2005-11-08)

Press release ANRS, INSERM, AFSSAPS
Adverse events that were unknown so far, have recently been observed in France in children who had been exposed to antiretroviral drugs (nucleosidic inhibitors of the reverse transcriptase) during intra uterine life and postnatally to prevent mother to child transmission of HIV. The children suffer... view more (1999-06-25)

Hunger hormone increases during stress, may have antidepressant effect
New research at UT Southwestern Medical Center may explain why some people who are stressed or depressed overeat.   view more (2008-06-16)

'Weight training' muscles reduce fat, improve metabolism in mice
Researchers from the Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have demonstrated that in mice, the use of barbells may be as important to losing weight and improving health as the use of running shoes. The discovery builds upon the fact that skeletal muscle consists of two types of fibers.   view more (2008-02-06)

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