Can your genes help create ‘designer’ diets?
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The studies question long-held beliefs about food selection and weight loss. For example, could 1,000 calories of turkey cause more weight gain in some people than 1,000 calories of cashews? If so, could a person lose weight through food selection without cutting total calories?
Drug Slims Down Obese Monkeys by Killing Fat Cells
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In a study that provides provocative support for a new approach to treating obesity, a drug that kills a particular type of fat cell by choking off its blood supply was shown to cause significant weight loss in obese monkeys.
After four weeks of treatment at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center …
Sugar, and candy, do not make kids hyper
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In my favorite of these studies, children were divided into two groups. All of them were given a sugar-free beverage to drink. But half the parents were told that their child had just had a drink with sugar. Then, all of the parents were told to grade their children’s behavior. …
Who wants to live forever?
Do you want to live for a long time, in decent health? If the rate of innovation in medical science doesn’t slow down, you just may be able to.
If Aubrey de Grey’s predictions are right, the first person who will live to see their 150th birthday has already been born. And the first …
High Fat Foods Don’t Appear to Cause High Cholesterol
As I think about losing weight (which I do (think about, that is) from time to time), I’m always interested in what kind of a diet would be most effective. I’m most convinced by what I’ve read about low-carb, high protein, high fat diets. But, inevitably, the first objection I’ll hear is that a diet …
Shyness: Evolutionary Tactic?
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An interesting overview of the importance of introverts, the ways in which our society is marginalizing introverts (possibly even describing introversion as a mental disease). We introverts should probably think about this article carefully, to ponder its ramifications. I doubt the extroverts will even see it though.
Once you know about sitters and rovers, …
A Release Valve for Cyclists’ Unrelenting Pressure
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Should you get a new bike seat, for the good of your sexual health? As the Blogfather would say, why take chances?
John Tierney, reports.
“I’ve spent much of my journalistic career debunking health scares, but the bike-saddle menace struck me as a no-brainer when I first heard about it. Why, if you had an …
Milk Doesn’t Make Coughing Worse
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This is good news because milk is my daughter’s favorite drink even (especially?) when she’s sick. We used to tell her that drinking milk would make her cough worse. Now, we won’t have to.
“The question has been formally investigated in studies, which demonstrated no increase in mucus production,” Dr. Sulica said, “although subjects …
That’s How a Dark Age Begins
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“Daddy, is it really true that they used to fly to the moon when you were a boy?” That shook me and it still does. It shook me because that’s how a dark age begins. A dark age is not just when you as a civilization have forgotten how to do something. It’s when you forget that you ever could.
No Evidence of Climate Change Harm
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while economic growth and technological development fueled mainly by fossil fuels are responsible for some portion of the warming experienced this century, they are largely responsible for the above-noted improvements in human well-being in developing countries (and elsewhere). The fact that these improvements occurred despite any global warming indicates that economic and technological development has been, overall, a benefit to developing countries.