A group of investigators from the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium announces that consuming small amounts of bitter drinks before sitting down to eat may be a good strategy for better assimilating foods. It would appear that bitterness is responsible for boosting the production of hunger hormones. Stimulating... |
19 January 2011
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The discovery of a surprising interaction that helps break down fat could open the way to slowing down fat digestion and create food structures that trigger satiety.Scientists from the Institute of Food Research have conducted several experiments where they used protein layers to stabilize emulsions, thus slowing dow... |
19 August 2010
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The 5,000-year-old Tyrolean iceman mummy found in a melting glacier almost two decades ago still has some surprises in store for researchers. As an example, during a recent study, they discovered that the Copper Age man ingested, more or less accidentally or conscientiously, six different moss types, including one th... |
2 December 2008
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The largest ever land animals were the enormous plant-eater dinosaurs called sauropods, of which Apatosaurus (former Brontosaurus) is the best known. These creatures could grow up to 42 m (130 ft) in length (but the neck and tail could be longer than their body) and at least 110 tons in weight. Researchers have been... |
8 February 2008
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1.Digestion takes place inside a 9 m (30 ft) long duct called digestive tube. It starts in the mouth and even if the food stays very little here, this is the place where the break down of the starches begins. The taste detects food's flavor, size, composition, texture and temperature. By chewing the food, the su... |
17 January 2008
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You may have heard that the snake venom in some species starts the digestion of the prey before being swallowed. Spiders put into their meals abundant saliva quantities that turn the body of an insect into a juice that the spider sucks. But even if a human doesn't start digesting the juicy steak from its mouth, ... |
12 September 2007
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The only magical formula to get slim is combining diet and exercising. But in the case of the persons that are prone to obesity, drugs and natural products can help, as long as they are taken under the medical control, as most of them have secondary effects. Orlistat is commercialized under the name of Xenical, and b... |
28 July 2007
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In many primitive tribes, people binge themselves during periods of plenty, accumulating a round belly, and after that pass the time fasting during the season of scarcity. Many big carnivores can binge after a big kill. Lions and tigers can engulf up to 40 kg of meat at once (which represent up to 15 % of their weigh... |
5 April 2007
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