By giving ordinary adult mice a drug – a synthetic designed to mimic fat – Salk Institute scientist Dr. Ronald M. Evans is now able to chemically switch on PPAR-d, the master regulator that controls the ability of cells to burn fat.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) continue their investigation of imported rice protein concentrate which has been found to contain melamine and melamine-related compounds.
A UK collaboration of scientists has identified three new genes that predispose individuals to develop type 2 diabetes 1, bringing scientists a step closer towards understanding what causes this complex disease.
University of Virginia researchers have discovered that microRNAs, a form of genetic material, can function as tumor suppressors in laboratory studies.
The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) issued the following statement from GMA senior director of nutrition and health policy, Alison Kretser, MS, RD, regarding the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) report entitled Nutrition Standards for Foods in Schools:
In a study of Labrador retriever dogs, those fed a calorie-restricted diet showed different lifelong patterns relating to energy metabolism and the activities of their gut microbes and lived almost two years longer than similar dogs given a slightly higher-calorie diet.
How your food is cooked may be as important to your health as the food itself. Researchers now know more about a new class of toxins that might soon become as important a risk factor for heart disease and metabolic disorders as trans fats.
Women with a lifetime history of migraine showed less of a performance decline over time on cognitive tests than women who didn’t have migraines.
Older adults who don’t get enough vitamin D ? either from their diets or exposure to the sun ? may be at increased risk for poor physical performance and disability, according to new research from Wake Forest University School of Medicine and colleagues.
Analysis of three genetic mechanisms that cause nonsmall cell lung cancer might explain why East Asians respond better than other ethnic groups to a certain type of chemotherapy, a team led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers has found.