Diet and Weight Loss
- Healthy diet linked to healthy cellular aging in women August 20, 2018Eating a diet that is rich in fruits, vegetables and whole grains and low in added sugar, sodium and processed meats could help promote healthy cellular aging in women.
- Poor sleep and type 2 diabetes means slower wound healing August 20, 2018People with Type 2 diabetes who don't sleep well could need more time to heal their wounds, according to a new study.
- Consuming milk at breakfast lowers blood glucose throughout the day August 20, 2018A change in breakfast routine may provide benefits for the management of type 2 diabetes, according to a new study. A team of scientists found that milk consumed with breakfast cereal reduced postprandial blood glucose concentration compared with water, and high dairy protein concentration reduced postprandial blood glucose concentration compared with normal dairy protein concentration. […]
- Strawberries could help reduce harmful inflammation in the colon August 20, 2018Inflammatory bowel disease is a set of painful conditions that can cause severe diarrhea and fatigue. Researchers are now reporting that a simple dietary intervention could mitigate colonic inflammation and improve gut health. In this case, a strawberry -- or rather, less than a cupful of strawberries -- a day could help keep the doctor […]
- Saliva could influence taste preferences August 20, 2018Saliva is crucial for tasting and digesting food. But scientists have now found that saliva could also be part of a feedback loop that influences how food tastes to people -- and by extension, what foods they're willing to eat. They hope that, one day, the findings could help consumers stick to a healthier diet.
Top Health News
- Genetic model offers elegant tool for testing Parkinson's disease therapies August 21, 2018For the past decade, Parkinson's disease researchers have relied on the experimental equivalent of using a sledgehammer to tune a guitar to test new therapies for the disease. This may be a reason clinical trials of promising neuroprotective drugs fail. But, in new research published today in Nature Parkinson's Disease, University of British Columbia researchers […]
- New type 1 diabetes therapy shows promise for long-term reversal in both humans, dogs August 21, 2018A collagen formulation mixed with pancreatic cells is the first minimally invasive therapy to successfully reverse Type 1 diabetes within 24 hours and maintain insulin independence for at least 90 days, a pre-clinical animal study shows.
- Certain antibiotic-resistant infections on the rise August 21, 2018Nearly six percent of urinary tract infections analyzed by a California emergency department were caused by drug-resistant bacteria in a one-year study period.
- New method may allow country-level real-time surveillance of drug-resistant tuberculosis August 21, 2018Medical researchers describe a new technique for linking samples submitted for tuberculosis testing to the individuals who provided the samples and the location from where they were submitted, in a way that can provide the continuous national surveillance necessary for eradicating tuberculosis and drug-resistant tuberculosis.
- Lower-risk malaria regions are breeding grounds for drug-resistant strains August 21, 2018New drug-resistant strains of the parasite that causes malaria tend to evolve in regions with lower malaria risk; in areas with high transmission rates, they get outcompeted by the more common, drug-sensitive strains inside the human host. In high-transmission settings, it takes a long time for drug-resistant strains to take hold, but once they do, […]