Prevention starts with recognizing one's own limits Each year, more than 1,000 people die from heat stroke in the United States. Long thought to be the product of dehydration, traditional prevention and treatment of heat related illness has been to drink more water. More recent research by the...
Knowing the temperatures that viruses, bacteria, worms and all other parasites need to grow and survive could help determine the future range of infectious diseases under climate change, according to new research. Princeton University researchers developed a model that can identify the prospects...
Cancer cells need food to survive and grow. They're very good at getting it, too, even when nutrients are scarce. Many scientists have tried killing cancer cells by taking away their favorite food, a sugar called glucose. Unfortunately, this treatment approach not only fails to work, it...
I never seem to put on weight however much I eat. The more I ingest the more I egest. I'm over 6 foot and weigh less than 60 kilos... Good you say... Except that I'm a guy. I eat plenty. I stuff myself but I can't put on weight at all. Are there any foods or supplements that might help slow my...
New research by a University of Rhode Island professor suggests that the length of human pregnancy is limited primarily by a mother's metabolism, not the size of the birth canal. The research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences the week of August 27, challenges the...
According to a small study*by researchers at the Fred Huchinson Cancer Research Center, which was published yesterday, yo-yo dieting (known as weight cycling) doesn't impede future weight loss. However, this study shouldn't be taken as a green light for not-great-for-you practice. Instead, look...
Women comprise nearly half of the HIV-infected population worldwide, but these 15.5 million women tend to be under-represented in clinical trials of anti-HIV drug therapies. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has created a database from 40 clinical studies to assess gender differences...
In mammals, most lipids (such as fatty acids and cholesterol) are absorbed into the body via the small intestine. The complexity of the cells and fluids that inhabit this organ make it very difficult to study in a laboratory setting. New research from Carnegie's Steven Farber, James Walters and...
Male and female mice engineered to express the inflammatory enzyme IKKbeta in their fat tissue ate more but gained less weight. They burned sugar and fat more effectively than mice who were left unaltered. The research may shed light on how obesity and inflammation affect insulin resistance and...
Alcohol is known to be carcinogenic to humans in the upper aerodigestive tract, liver, colorectum, and the female breast. Evidence suggests that acetaldehyde, the primary metabolite of alcohol, plays a major role in alcohol-related esophageal cancer. A new study using human cells has established...
By tracking what parasites eat and detailing the exact pathways down which they metabolize nutrients for growth, researchers in Australia believe they have revealed new drug targets for fighting the deadly tropical parasite Leishmania which infects 12 million and kills half a million people...
I mean, I started off healthy; like when I was younger I would refuse sweets anytime I was asked, instead opting for fruit. But when I gots older, I wasn't so healthy >.< And still, I am not as healthy as I could be. I do eat well most of the time as I do really enjoy healthy food. But, on the...
so i don't gain the weight back. ive been on an off and on fast for the last year or so. i lost over 70 lbs. i used 2 be 240 now im 170 ish. but when i get off my fast, i gain weight at an incredible rate, like 1 decently ballanced meal has the potential to make me gail like 5 lbs. wtf!!!
Does anyone have something to say about GNC's Men's Mega Men, Energy & Metabolism?
Since I started working a year ago, I was never feeling energized or able to do the amount of workout I wanted to do. A friend recommended that I take complete daily vitamins. I went to GNC and they recommended I...
Metabolon, Inc., the leader in global metabolomics, biomarker discovery and analysis, announces the publication of "Metabolomic Profiling Reveals Biochemical Pathways and Biomarkers Associated with Pathogenesis in Cystic Fibrosis Cells", in the Journal of Biological Chemistry (2010, Vol. 285...
I'm 18 and weigh about 110-125 and am about 5'7.I aparently have a fast metabolism and I want to gain weight.I used to work out but all it did was make me skinnier so now I'm just lazy. I wanted to know if it could be able to get a medical marijuana card from a doctor or something? I used to be...
Ok so i'm 15, male, 5'6 and i starved myself for about 4 months and got all skinny but then started to binge and gain a little fat so i started eating healthy and exercising a lot (and when i say a lot i mean a lot. i'm home schooled so i have plenty of workout time) and eating 5 times a day and...