Researchers alter mouse gut microbiomes by feeding good bacteria their preferred fibers
Humans choose food based on the way it looks, smells, and tastes. But the microbes in our guts use a […]
Infants and young children with epilepsy due to a confirmed genetic abnormality had a better response to treatment with ketogenic […] With every unfinished meal since Band Aid, you’ve heard it: “people are starving in Africa, y’know.” True, the UN estimates […] Introducing plant-based foods to a diet is a common-sense approach to healthy eating, but many people don’t like the taste […] Blame junk food or a lack of exercise. But long before the modern obesity epidemic, evolution made us fat too. […] Consumption of sugary drinks is considered to be a key driver behind the global obesity epidemic, and is linked with […] Regardless of how much you exercise or how balanced your diet is, controlling your weight is more brain-related than you […] New research in The Journal of Physiology has found, using a mouse model, that microbes in the maternal intestine may […] Blocking the action of an enzyme involved in protein digestion may improve metabolic health, according to a new study published […] Researchers using sophisticated MRI technology have found that higher levels of body fat are associated with differences in the brain’s […]Diet and Weight Loss
Better seizure control with ketogenic diet in infants with genetic epilepsy: Ketogenic diet could start earlier in infants as young as 3 weeks old
The fat of the land: Estimating the ecological costs of overeating: Overeating wastes far more food than we throw away, suggests research
With bitter foods, what you eat determines what you like to eat: Taste of bitter foods changes as repeated consumption alters the constellation of salivary proteins
What made humans ‘the fat primate’? Changes in DNA packaging curbed our body’s ability to turn ‘bad’ fat into ‘good’ fat
Evidence on ways to reduce consumption of sugary drinks
Obesity: The key role of a brain protein revealed: Researchers clarify the mechanism controlling food intake
Maternal microbes mediate diet-derived damage
New pathway for improving metabolic health: Blocking protein-digesting enzyme tricks mice into releasing more beneficial hormones
Obesity linked with differences in form and structure of the brain