Following on from the last blog another obesity one for you. This time scientists have looked at obesity rates in men and women in developed and developing nations and have come to a worrying conclusion. Endocrine disrupters that mimic female hormones could be increasing the obesity rates in men.
Scientists have shown that a breakdown product from fermentable carbohydrates, acetate, travels from the gut to the brain when released and is believed to suppress hunger.
Apparently drinking a daily juice made from broccoli sprouts can detox your body of airborne pollutants. So says a paper published earlier this month in the journal Cancer Prevention Research and brought to our attention by the article in the Huffington Post.
Reported in the science magazine New Scientist last week, scientists from The American Chestnut Research and Restoration Project have created an American chestnut that is resistant to the blight has all but wiped it out in most of the US.
All is not well in Lower Saxony, Germany. US energy group ExxonMobil carried out a fracking test back in 2011 and now locals are convinced that the company has earmarked the area for the first fracking site in Germany.
Lutein is a carotene found in a number of food sources such as green leafy vegetables, egg yolk and dandelion flowers (yes they are edible).
An interesting bit of research published in the Nutrition Journal claims that, calorie for calorie, oats or porridge will fill you up more than a leading brand oat based cereal.
Yes, it’s every dieters dream, a way to burn fat without the hard work. Researchers have found a way to activate “beige” fat cells that produce heat and therefore expend energy without the need to stimulate them by making them cold.
Another protein blog for you, this time, according to a new meta-analysis we should be eating more protein to reduce our risk of stroke.
Just because the same equipment was used for mincing one type of meat and then another, for example, beef and then lamb, does not mean there should be any detectable beef in the lamb.
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