Science news articles about 'diets'

... , but not necessarily what it did eat,” Ungar said. Anthropologists have traditionally inferred the diet of this and other ancient human ancestors by looking at the size and shape of the teeth and ...

New research has revealed that binge eating then dieting may significantly reduce lifespan.

... children. The first clinical trial of a ketogenic diet -- high in fats and low in carbohydrates and protein ...

A new study indicates that a high-fat diet has proved effective in reducing seizures in children whose epilepsy does not respond to medication.

Mapping mountains and valleys of fossil teeth can shed light on ancient humans' diets.

Men who consumed high saturated fat diets (HSF) were younger and had higher BMIs at diagnosis than men with who consumed low saturated fat diets (LSF). Saturated fats were most commonly consumed ...

The regimen is one of several diets that can provide relief from the symptoms of various illnesses when medication fails. ...

... can be trained to feed from artificial food sources. The research has highlighted the fact that voluntary dieting is a habit far from exclusive to humans – and appears to reach back at least as far ...

... and food muse, surely he's got some tipsfor the rest of us. In his book "The Best Life Diet," exercise physiologist and fitness author Bob Greene expands on his signature concept: Weight loss is a ...

... the food provided is the answer to the problem. However changing your child’s diet is not likely to settle their over active behaviour. ADHD (attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder) has a strong ...

... reduction in the risk of developing diabetes. Interestingly, those participants who stuck strictly to the diet also had the highest prevalence of risk factors for diabetes such as older age, a ...

... -lowering drugs in that it works by cutting the amount of cholesterol taken in from the diet rather than by blocking cholesterol’s manufacture in the body. Earlier studies had suggested that ezetimibe ...

... of breeding, and likely dominance as reasons for the gender skewing. Rather, it was the composition of the diet consumed in the time period around conception that was responsible for this sex-ratio ...

... . Ezetimibe is unique among cholesterol-lowering drugs in that it works by cutting the amount of cholesterol taken in from the diet rather than by blocking cholesterol's manufacture in the body.

Patients who adhered more strictly to the Mediterranean diet reduced their relative risk of diabetes by 83 percent, a new study found.