Vitamin D is already well known for its benefits in building healthy bones. A new study supports the idea that it also may reduce cancer risk as well as breast cancer mortality, especially in women with a lower body mass index....
With age, expression of a small molecule that can silence others goes way up while a key signaling molecule that helps stem cells make healthy bone goes down, scientists report....
A new study is the first to quantitatively map the flow of energy, protein, fat, essential amino acids and micronutrients from field-to-fork at a global level and identify hotspots where nutrients are lost. The study shows that while we produce far more nutrients than is required for the global population, inefficiencies in the supply chain leave many people nutrient deficient....
To date, most electricity-generating bacteria have come from weird environments, but researchers have found more than 100 in the human microbiome, both pathogenic and probiotic. They were unsuspected because they employ a different and simpler extracellular electron transfer system, which may prove useful in creating bacterial batteries. Their electrogenic ability may be important in infectivity, or in how they ferment cheese and yogurt....
Naturally-derived anti-oxidants have become the it health ingredient to look for in food. But researchers have now discovered that TEMPO -- a well-known artificial anti-oxidant -- is up to 100 times more powerful than natures best and could help counteract everything from skin damage to Alzheimers Disease....
If more phosphate is consumed with food, blood pressure and pulse rate increase in healthy young adults, according to a new study....