Public Health

Mercury Levels In Tuna Are Getting Higher

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Article - The Conversation - Feb 16 2015 - 2:30pm

Obesity Paradox: A High-Fat Diet Reduces Heart Attack Damage 50 Percent

Over the long term, a high-fat diet is bad for heart attack risk. Yet a new study finds that if you are going to have a heart attack, you are likely to get through it better if you ate a high-fat diet before it happened. Mice fed a high-fat diet for one da ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 17 2015 - 1:41pm

Organic Milk Offers No Nutritional Boost Over Regular Milk

By Leigh Cooper, Inside Science (Inside Science) – Two bottles of whole milk sit side-by-side in a supermarket refrigerator. One costs $3.46 per gallon while the other costs $7.08 per gallon. The difference? The second bottle of milk is labeled organic. ...

Article - Inside Science - Feb 17 2015 - 2:43pm

Tackling Fat And Fitness Starts With Getting Off The Couch

Photo: Taber Andrew Bain, CC BY The link between exercise, diet and ill health has been recognized for a considerable length of time. ...

Article - The Conversation - Feb 18 2015 - 3:00pm

Fewer Drugs: Precision Medicine To Prevent Diabetes?

Precision medicine could prevent the flawed 'one size fits all' diet recommendations we currently get from the federal government and self-professed nutrition experts who latch onto the latest fad to sell books. 29 million Americans already alrea ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 19 2015 - 1:25pm

The Teenage Brain on Drugs

One way to look at addiction is to consider it a form of learning, a type of learning that is extremely effective in its ability to affect the adolescent  brain, report researchers working under an NIH grant. ...

Blog Post - Richard Taite - Feb 19 2015 - 3:52pm

Kidney Patients Start Dialysis Sooner Than Ever

There has been a long-running belief that greedy insurance companies deny patients needed care to maintain profits but in hindsight it seems to have been just the opposite; health care was expensive because of defensive medicine policies needed to ward off ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 19 2015 - 7:12pm

Hookah Smokers Are Breathing In High Quantities Of Heavy Metals

Contrary to claims by proponents, only a minimal amount of heavy metals are removed in the hookah 'filtration' process. On average, only 3% of heavy metals present in tobacco are removed and this would not be enough to protect users from exposure ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 19 2015 - 9:14pm

It's not only what you eat--it's when.

Time is imprinted in our genes. Daily circadian rhythms (circa, about; diem, a day) control the harmonious oscillation in all biological systems. “At the gene level, circadian rhythm is the most conserved cluster of genes in biology. Fruit flies and human ...

Blog Post - Akiva Gross - Feb 19 2015 - 9:18pm

Vivo-Morpholino: To Boost Calorie Burning, Make Your Muscles Less Efficient

Less efficiency sounds bad, in the modern world of optimization, where everyone wants to sell you a 10-minute workout that maximizes your time.  But in the ancient world of evolution, you need to turn the tables. Due to the boom-and-bust nature of existenc ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 20 2015 - 10:35am