Why Ultra-Processed Foods Make Us Eat More (And What to Do)
ReviewScientists are investigating why ultra-processed foods, like packaged snacks, fast food, and sugary drinks, seem designed to make us want to …
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Scientists are investigating why ultra-processed foods, like packaged snacks, fast food, and sugary drinks, seem designed to make us want to …
Read studyResearchers discovered that when you eat a high-fat diet for a long time, your liver cells change how they use genetic instructions in ways …
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Annual review of biochemistry
Scientists have discovered that cancer cells don't just rely on genetic mutations to survive and grow. Instead, they manipulate how your …
Read studyWhere you shop for food matters more than you might think. Researchers studied how access to healthy grocery stores affects what families …
Read studyResearchers in India discovered that stone mining is releasing dangerous heavy metals like lead, chromium, and cadmium into nearby farm …
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The Journal of physiology
Scientists discovered that when you combine exercise training with a high-fat diet, your muscles become better at using different types of …
Read studyResearchers discovered that how people understand what causes gout affects whether they believe medicine can help. In this study, 201 people …
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Nutrition (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Researchers looked at 54 different studies involving nearly 2 million people to see if eating a Mediterranean diet, lots of vegetables, …
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Diabetic medicine : a journal of the British Diabetic Association
Researchers looked at 108 studies involving over 500,000 people to understand how diabetes prevention programs actually work. They expected …
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Clinical transplantation
People who receive new livers often struggle with weakness and poor nutrition during recovery. Researchers tested whether giving patients …
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Frontiers in molecular biosciences
Doctors discovered an unusual case of a rare brain disease called Marchiafava-Bignami disease that may have been caused by the body's immune …
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Frontiers in nutrition
Researchers tested whether a purple pigment found in mulberries could help mice with unhealthy diets and heart disease risk. The mice that …
Read studyResearchers tested a vinegar made from Yunnan tea flowers to see if it could help prevent obesity in mice eating a high-fat diet. The …
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Frontiers in nutrition
Researchers discovered something surprising: for older adults with gum disease, the usual rules about healthy eating and heart disease might …
Read studyResearchers in Ecuador studied 400 older adults to understand how eating well connects to staying active. They found that about 6 out of 10 …
Read studyWhen people leave the hospital after being malnourished or weak, doctors often tell them to eat better at home. But many patients don't …
Read studyResearchers tested whether adding a special fat called glycerol monodecanoate (GMD) to cattle feed could help their digestive systems work …
Read studyResearchers explored whether a diet designed to help save the planet could also help people maintain their strength and independence as they …
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NPJ science of food
Researchers discovered that some everyday foods and supplements contain powerful chemicals that could accidentally show up on athlete drug …
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Scientific reports
Researchers studied 201 young adults with heart conditions present from birth to understand how their beliefs about health influence their …
Read studyResearchers in China followed babies from birth to age 2 to understand how a mother's vitamin D levels during pregnancy might affect whether …
Read studyResearchers tested whether a natural substance called humic acid could improve the gut health of young lambs. They gave one group of lambs …
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Cardiorenal medicine
Researchers studied a urine test that measures a protein called albumin to see if it could help doctors understand when heart failure …
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American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology
Menopause causes changes in the brain that can affect memory and thinking, but estrogen therapy may help protect brain health. Scientists …
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