Eating just one serving of beans, peas, chickpeas, or lentils a day could help contribute to a modest weight loss, according to a meta-analysis of clinical trials. Researchers founding eating 130 grams (or ¾ of a cup) of the food group known as pulses each day led to just over half a pound of […]
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Eating two homemade meals a day cuts diabetes risk
Eating two homemade meals per day lowers the risk of developing type 2 diabetes according to recent research from the American Heart Association. Researchers found that individuals who ate a homemade lunch and dinner everyday had a 13 per cent lower risk when compared to individuals who ate fewer than six homemade meals each week. […]
Drinking 170-year-old champagne for science
Tasting and chemically analyzing 170-year-old champagnes recovered from the Baltic Sea in 2010 has revealed some features of 19th-century winemaking practices. Researchers compared the chemistry of the historic bottles to that of modern champagnes and found the recovered bottles had less alcohol but higher levels of iron, copper, sodium and chlorine. The discovery of traces […]
Human or cow? Breast milk from the Internet is not always what it appears to be
Human breast milk bought on the Internet is not always pure human breast milk according to a new American study. Parents purchase human breast milk from the Internet to help supplement their supply, and in some cases the parents are purchasing milk for infants with sensitivities to cows milk or formula. Researchers tested 102 samples […]
Genetically-modified salmon reproduce as fast as wild-type
Growth hormone (GH) transgenic salmon doesn’t reproduce faster than wild-type salmon, but transgenic salmon can reproduce with wild-type fish, a new study shows. GH transgenic salmon contains a chinook salmon growth hormone gene fused to an ocean pout antifreeze gene which significantly accelerate its growth rates. Researchers reared salmon in large (350,000 L), semi-natural, seawater tanks […]
Artistic food tastes better
Food arranged to resemble an abstract painting is perceived as tastier, according to a new study. Researchers asked 60 participants to rate the same salad arranged three ways: randomly mixed, neatly arranged or designed to resemble artist Wassily Kandinsky’s “Painting number 201.” Participants rated the artistic salad as the most tasty and were willing to […]
Fruit flies follow their gut instincts
Fruit flies are most attracted to fruit that already has flies on it, but what exactly are they smelling? A new study shows that the odour that attracts the flies is produced by neither the fruit nor the other flies and larva. Instead bacteria living in the guts of those other flies and larva produce […]
Climate change and impacts on maize, spring wheat and soybeans
A new study predicts that by the 2080’s global production of maize will have fallen by nearly 13 per cent. By balancing a variety of factors, such as rising CO2 levels and patterns in climate change, researchers are able to establish a model to predict future crop yields. While maize will decrease, yields of spring […]
