News tagged with sugar foods

Got a craving for fast food? Skip the coffee, study says

Eating a fatty fast food meal is never good for you, but washing that meal down with a coffee is even worse, according to a new University of Guelph study.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 01, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

The buzz around beer

Ever wondered why flies are attracted to beer? Entomologists at the University of California, Riverside have, and offer an explanation. They report that flies sense glycerol, a sweet-tasting compound that ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

It takes a community of soil microbes to protect plants from disease

Those vegetables you had for dinner may have once been protected by an immune system akin to the one that helps you fight disease. Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Brain might be key to leptin's actions against type 1 diabetes

New findings by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers suggest a novel role for the brain in mediating beneficial actions of the hormone leptin in type 1 diabetes.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Oct 19, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

More economical process for making ethanol from nonfood sources

Scientists in Wisconsin are reporting discovery of a way to lower the cost of converting wood, corn stalks and leaves, switch grass, and other non-food biomass materials into ethanol fuel. They describe their ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Mar 25, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Trained bacteria convert bio-wastes into plastic

Dutch researcher Jean-Paul Meijnen has 'trained' bacteria to convert all the main sugars in vegetable, fruit and garden waste efficiently into high-quality environmentally friendly products such as bioplastics.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 19, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Gut hormone has 'remote control' on blood sugar

A gut hormone first described in 1928 plays an unanticipated and important role in the remote control of blood sugar production in the liver, according to a report in the August 6th Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication. What's ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Aug 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists find hormone influences sensitivity to sweetness

A hormone that helps to regulate blood sugar levels may also influence a person's sensitivity to sweet-tasting foods, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. They found ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 15, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Garlic oil shows protective effect against heart disease in diabetes

Garlic has "significant" potential for preventing cardiomyopathy, a form of heart disease that is a leading cause of death in people with diabetes, scientists have concluded in a new study. Their report, which also explains ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Sep 29, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Chemicals and biofuel from wood biomass

(PhysOrg.com) -- A method developed at Aalto University in Finland makes it possible to use microbes to produce butanol suitable for biofuel and other industrial chemicals from wood biomass. Butanol is particularly ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The communal stomach of an ant colony

(PhysOrg.com) -- How do ant colonies manage the nutrients in their food? Audrey Dussutour from the Centre de recherche sur la cognition animale (CNRS/Université Paul Sabatier) and Steve Simpson from ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Newer doesn't mean better when it comes to type 2 diabetes drugs

An inexpensive type 2 diabetes drug that has been around for more than 15 years works just as well and has fewer side effects than a half-dozen other, mostly newer and more expensive classes of medication used to control ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Mar 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

UW-Madison scientists create low-acrylamide potato lines

(PhysOrg.com) -- What do Americans love more than French fries and potato chips? Not much-but perhaps we love them more than we ought to. Fat and calories aside, both foods contain high levels of a compound called acrylamide, ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jun 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

FDA approves generic blood thinner

In a closely watched decision, the Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved an application by German drug-maker Sandoz and Momenta Pharmaceuticals of Cambridge, Mass, to make the first generic version of the widely ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jul 26, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Sugar cane to return to Angola in biofuel move

Angola will begin planting sugar cane for the first time in more than 30 years this month as the oil-rich country takes its first step toward biofuels.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0