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According to a new scientific study, published in the latest issue of the esteemed Journal of Physiology, it would appear that consuming a lot of sugar has negative effects on the brains of rats. Scientists use the unsuspecting rodents as proxies for human studies.
University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) inv... |
16 May 2012
09:30 GMT |
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The latest study on the effects that sugar has on the human body have shown that the substance should be cataloged as a toxic chemical, similar to how tobacco and alcohol are currently designated. The bad part is that sweeteners aren't any better for us. The number of researchers arguing that this is the way t... |
6 February 2012
03:25 GMT |
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Sugar proved its complexity once again, demonstrating that it can do more than just satisfying our cravings for sweet things.
A very inspirational conference highlighted creative moments which celebrated the junction between sugar and glass. Who would have thought about actual sugar lamps before?
Chef Albert Adri&... |
20 October 2011
07:30 GMT |
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Researchers in the United Kingdom have recently determined that consuming sweet drinks tends to numb taste buds on the tongue, lowering people's sensitivity to the taste. The correlation is very strong in the overweight and the obese, but also in normal-weight individuals.The investigation was carried out by exp... |
9 June 2011
08:39 GMT |
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A recent investigation conducted on unsuspecting lab mice has revealed that administering a spoonful of sugar to diabetes patients may in fact be one of the best way to address the disease. In the new experiments, researchers looked at how much glucose was used up in pancreatic cells that produce insulin. The team al... |
6 April 2011
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Physicists from the Rice University managed to develop a new method for producing the two-dimensional sheet of carbon atoms known as graphene, which involves the use of sugar and related, carbon-based molecules. The graphene produced in this manner is nearly perfect. This carbon compound is currently being touted as ... |
11 November 2010
10:57 GMT |
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Type 1 diabetes patients are dependent on the hormone insulin for their very survival, and now scientists are engaging in an effort to see whether they can make the therapy more effective by adding the hormone leptin to the mix as well. This type of diabetics has abnormally high levels of sugar in their blood stream,... |
11 October 2010
15:01 GMT |
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A new investigation has recently determined that consuming only moderate amounts of carbonated drinks did not promote weight gain in overweight women. It was found that mood and carbohydrate craving were also undisturbed after the entire study period. The investigation, entitled “Effects of sucrose drinks on ma... |
12 August 2010
05:42 GMT |
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A few days ago, television personality Ellen DeGeneres revealed she kept slim and full of energy by going on what she called “sugar fasts,” which meant all sweet treats, cakes and chocolate, were off limits for certain periods of time. This is something that any of us could try every once in a while &ndas... |
20 April 2010
15:21 GMT |
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Some of the most popular brands of cereals are being marketed as healthy, which makes them ideal for serving them for breakfast to children. As it turns out, reality is far from that, as they contain more sugar than a jam doughnut and double the salt intake recommended daily for an adult, a new survey has concluded, ... |
19 April 2010
16:11 GMT |
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A group of experts at the San Francisco State University has recently released a new scientific paper, showing that removing fast food from American schools could help curb the growing trend of obesity among children. Sugary beverages and junk food are considered to be primarily responsible for the wave of overweight... |
2 March 2010
04:50 GMT |
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Many women struggle to lose weight, but to former Destiny’s Child singer Kelly Rowland, shaking a few pounds came about without as much as putting in too much of an effort. After reading a book that told her she was what she ate, the star decided to follow some of those tips and lost about 10 pounds, she tells ... |
22 January 2010
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Experts at the Texas AgriLife Research have recently managed to map the genome of melons, an accomplishment that translates into farmers and growers now being able to produce sweeter fruits, to be savored by the general public. While many people take into account various traits of a melon when purchasing it, such as ... |
6 July 2009
06:57 GMT |
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After decades of research into what type of drinks would best benefit astronauts aboard the International Space Station, as well as on other voyages to space, the American space agency NASA has finally made available such a product on the market, for the average consumer. Derived from the complex soda that astronauts... |
1 July 2009
05:08 GMT |
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Sodas of any kind are the most popular beverages in the world, especially among teens and children in the developed world. But the problem with these drinks is that they are laden with sugar, which, if consumed in excess, can cause a range of severe medical conditions, including diabetes and obesity. New medical rese... |
15 April 2009
06:27 GMT |
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On March 5, Pepsi announced that it would be launching a revolutionizing soft drink that would replace high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) with natural sugar. Because of the sugar addition, the natural caramel and kola nut extract, the new beverage is being labeled as an all-natural drink that, somehow, would deter soda ... |
25 March 2009
17:11 GMT |
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Experts from the Danish Science Communication and the University of Copenhagen have recently made public some of their findings concerning children's tastes and their ability to “feel” the same products in different ways. The tests have revealed that there are consistent differences between genders i... |
18 December 2008
09:58 GMT |
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Researchers at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, led by professor Bart Hoebel, have recently made public the results of their studies concerning the effects of sugar addiction in rats. They have concluded that sugar dependence leads to the same brain changes as alcohol, nicotine, or drugs addiction. More than tha... |
15 December 2008
03:29 GMT |
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New research from Princeton University (PU) proves that sugar is indeed addictive to small animals, such as rats and innocent lab mice. During the tests, PU scientist Bart Hoebel offered mice sugared water for weeks, and then analyzed the effects sugar deprivation had on the little creatures. He described their react... |
11 December 2008
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An international team of astronomers has managed to detect the presence of a sugar molecule in the outer space. The chemical compound is known to be among the few primal building blocks that form life, and thus the discovery proves to be highly important in the search for Earth-like planets where life could appear an... |
26 November 2008
10:18 GMT |
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How many of you ever imagined that the innocent fruit smoothies could possibly present a very serious hidden danger? No, it's not a deadly chemical hidden in the ice cream or yogurt that go into the smoothie itself, but rather the effect such drinks have on our teeth. Recent studies conducted in Britain have sho... |
20 May 2008
08:21 GMT |
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The Australian OLPC office has no plan of joining mother company's intentions of switching to Windows XP. According to a news report published by tech website ITWire, two of the five OLPC Australia executives are active members in the local Linux community. Both board director Jeff Waugh and his partner Pia Wau... |
9 May 2008
06:32 GMT |
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The One Laptop Per Child charity organization led by Nicholas Negroponte seemed to have terminated its business with Linux in favor of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. The move raised waves of protests among open source developers, and the very purpose of the organization was questioned. The large number... |
7 May 2008
06:31 GMT |
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Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child charity project has just got a new president and chief operating officer. The move is part of the restructuring and reshaping policy announced in mid-March, a policy that forced many of the executives involved in the project to pack their bags to brighter ideals.Accordi... |
5 May 2008
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Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child charity organization is strolling towards replacing its currently existing Linux-based Sugar operating system with Microsoft's Windows XP. Negroponte's concern towards Microsoft has triggered a wave of complaints from the company's employees that topped w... |
24 April 2008
06:56 GMT |
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Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child charity foundation lost another executive on their way to delivering inexpensive and user-friendly educational notebooks. Walter Bender, the former President of Software and Content, has just resigned.The official explanation for Bender's departure is that there ha... |
22 April 2008
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Geckos are really some of the most amazing lizards. They are mostly known for their ability to climb vertical walls and walk on ceilings using their adhesive toes. The secret behind this amazing ability lies in an unique quick-release mechanism that permits geckos to strongly adhere to a surface, but then detach with... |
18 February 2008
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And not just by eating it, but by blowing up in your face as well! What are the chances of that ever happening? Well, I was just about to say none, but the fact is that a sugar explosion happened a week ago at the Imperial Sugar Company refinery in Port Wentworth, killing six people, injuring seventeen and severely d... |
14 February 2008
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80 computers, 320 CPUs of power, 640 Gigabytes of RAM and 96 terabytes of hard disk memory. If that's not music to your years, I don't know what music is. Don't be fooled by the name though, the SUGAR complex will be the new supercomputer complex which will help physicists at the California Institute o... |
11 February 2008
04:43 GMT |
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Drinking only "zero" beverages and gorging only on the "lightest" yogurts and diet bars, and still having a seal line? No wonder, as a new research published in the journal "Behavioral Neuroscience" has revealed that rats fed on artificial sweetener put more weight compared to sugar-fed rats, a finding challenging c... |
11 February 2008
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Life is subdued to a continuous development. With each new generation, advantages increase, while disadvantages are removed, and new possibilities are exploited. An ancestral species forms several new species and can disappear, or to survive in its original form adapting to its own niche in the system. The result is ... |
28 January 2008
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Telepathy sounds like something out of the freak show, or SF stories. But, this trait has been found to be displayed by the DNA molecules. DNA double helixes can recognize fitting sequences from a distance and then join together, without the implication of enzymes or other molecules. Researchers had not suspected tha... |
28 January 2008
03:32 GMT |
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Doctors say that chewing sugar-free gum after a meal decreases mouth's bacterial acidity, the main factor involved in tooth decay, due to the abundant salivation, diluting and neutralizing the acid. And here comes the shock: a new research published in the "British Medical Journal" shows that exaggerating with t... |
11 January 2008
05:31 GMT |
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We associate energy with movement, but any living organism needs energy for fueling life processes, even long ones, like growth and reproduction. On Earth, the whole life energy comes from the Sun. Plants capture the Sun's energy, animals eat plants as food. Plants can store the sun energy in chemicals. The othe... |
3 January 2008
10:38 GMT |
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"We are what we eat". The food we eat has various chemicals with different functions: some deliver "building blocks" for our body components (bones, muscles, hair, teeth, nails) and repairing material. Others come with energy or eliminate toxins. That's why the diet must be balanced, a fact reflected in the ove... |
28 December 2007
14:16 GMT |
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If you think that human evolution has stopped, you're extremely wrong: in fact, it has just sped up! And people on various continents are just turning more different. "Humans are evolving rapidly, and that the pace of change has accelerated a lot in the last 40,000 years, especially since the end of the Ice Age ... |
7 December 2007
04:48 GMT |
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Apparently, carnivorous mothers give birth to boys and chocolate-addicted ones to girls. But even if seems funny, what a mother eats seems to really bias the sex of her offspring, as revealed by a new research published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Low blood-sugar amounts seem to boost the birth of females.... |
28 November 2007
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Metabolism is the process through which the body processes and burns the nutrients. Even the basal metabolism (when the person is resting) varies among different individuals. In the end, the balance between storing and burning defines the way we look. 1. Miserly type. It characterizes individuals that can store with ... |
24 November 2007
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Columbus and his crew were the first Europeans to taste the pineapple in the Caribbean in 1493. The king of Spain liked its taste very much and the fruit was spread worldwide; by 1548 it was already cultivated in the Philippines. By the 18th century, pineapple was considered a luxury fruit on the European royal table... |
23 November 2007
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1. Specialists say that if during an accident you lose a tooth, do not throw it. Your chances of reimplanting the teeth can be of 50 % if you go to the dentist 30 minutes after the 'incident'. Try to stay calm, as much as possible. Hold the tooth by the corona and rinse it gently with warm water. Don't... |
20 November 2007
13:41 GMT |
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No sex, alcohol and other risk factors have been proven to cause a rapid development in prostate cancer, the ultimate blow that can 'ruin' a man's sex life. Too few recover after surgery without remaining impotent. Now, a research led at Duke Prostate Center and published in the online journal Prostate... |
14 November 2007
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Could you imagine your life without pumping every day countless amounts of sugar in your body? If not, you should at least know that it can affect your sexuality: high levels of fructose and glucose entering your blood can deactivate the gene controlling the amounts of sex hormones in both men and women, as revealed ... |
10 November 2007
05:16 GMT |
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Scientists have been studying biofuels and ways to extract it from biomass for years, but the search for such fuels has accelerated in the last few years as a result of US' dependency on foreign oil.There is now an accentuated need for biofuel and new ways to produce it. Annual Meetings of the American Society o... |
6 November 2007
06:13 GMT |
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Those guys hanging out at the pub with their buddies till morning do not avoid the company of their wives, they are just rehydrating. The Spanish got it right: a new research made at the Granada University points that after a game of football or rugby, a beer is more efficient in rehydrating the body than water, even... |
6 November 2007
05:18 GMT |
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This is the first chemical to which we get addicted. What would we do without sugar? Many types of dishes and sweets should be changed. Today, eating sugar is part of the daily menu, and the stuff is delivered by a worldwide industry, driving millions of people from Cuba to India, Brazil to Africa and Australia. Suga... |
30 October 2007
16:01 GMT |
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1.Hummingbirds are found only in Americas, from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego (in the southern tip of South America). Half of the hummingbird species (160) live in the Amazon forest. The northernmost species is the rufous hummingbird (Selasphorus rufus), the only species that reaches Alaska. The southernmost species is ... |
23 October 2007
14:06 GMT |
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The secret of being smart all day has been found: eat the right cereals for breakfast, like whole-grain barley or rye and your blood sugar will be constant all day, as a result of a mix of low GI (glycemic index) and indigestible sugars encountered in some grains. The research made at Lund University reveals that eve... |
25 September 2007
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As the general computer industry trend is to find cleaner and greener ways to power up hardware parts and make them use as little energy as possible, Sony and a number of other companies are researching the ultimate green battery that runs on sugar and relies on microbes and enzymes to transform the fuel into usable ... |
24 August 2007
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You get fat by only drinking water, but bats can burn sugar faster than top-class athletes, having the fastest sugar-burning metabolism amongst all mammals on Earth. This is the result of a research made on American nectar-feeding bats (encountered in tropical America): within minutes of stopping for sugar-rich flowe... |
9 August 2007
05:19 GMT |
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Craving for sugar seems to be a much more serious problem than you thought. If you believe that craving for cocaine in the case of addiction to this drug is terribly difficult to bear, you'd better find out the result of a research team at the University of Bordeaux in France. "[W]hen rats were allowed to choose... |
3 August 2007
14:06 GMT |
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