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Environmental Sciences - Agronomy/Food Science - 14.05
Wasted milk is a drain on resources
Milk poured down Britain's kitchen sinks each year creates a carbon footprint equivalent to that of thousands of cars, research shows. University scientists say the 360,000 tonnes of milk wasted in the UK each year creates greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to 100,000 tonnes of CO2.

Agronomy/Food Science - Medicine/Pharmacology - 7.05
Immune cells found to counter obesity-related diabetes
Immune cells found to counter obesity-related diabetes
For years, researchers have known that obesity, type 2 diabetes and low-level inflammation are linked, but how they are connected has not been well understood. A recent Cornell-led study has found that a type of immune cells - called natural killer'T (NKT) cells - is an important part of the puzzle.

Agronomy/Food Science - Medicine/Pharmacology - 4.05
Low testosterone levels linked to diabetes
Low levels of testosterone in men could increase their risk of developing diabetes. University scientists have found that low testosterone levels are linked to a resistance to insulin, the hormone that controls blood sugar levels.

Agronomy/Food Science - 30.04
Obesity affects job prospects for women, study finds
Obese women are more likely to be discriminated against when applying for jobs and receive lower starting salaries than their non-overweight colleagues, a new study has found. The study, led by The University of Manchester and Monash University, Melbourne, and published in the International Journal of Obesity , examined whether a recently developed measure of anti-fat prejudice, the universal measure of bias (UMB), predicted actual obesity job discrimination.

Life Sciences - Agronomy/Food Science - 11.04
Seed Size Is Controlled by Maternally Produced Small RNAs, Scientists Find
Seed Size Is Controlled by Maternally Produced Small RNAs, Scientists Find
AUSTIN, Texas — Seed size is controlled by small RNA molecules inherited from a plant's mother, a discovery from scientists at The University of Texas at Austin that has implications for agriculture and understanding plant evolution.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Agronomy/Food Science - 9.04
Soy foods can help reduce hot flashes, University of Minnesota study finds
MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (04/09/2012) —Menopausal women can find relief from hot flashes by taking soy isoflavone supplements, a new study from the University of Minnesota and other research institutions has found.

Agronomy/Food Science - Medicine/Pharmacology - 4.04
Obesity accounts for 21 percent of U.S. health care costs
Obesity accounts for 21 percent of U.S. health care costs
Obesity now accounts for almost 21 percent of U.S. health care costs - more than twice the previous estimates, reports a new Cornell study. The research, which is the first to show the causal effect of obesity on medical care costs, uses new methods and makes a stronger case for government intervention to prevent obesity, the authors say.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Agronomy/Food Science - 3.04
Caloric moderation can reverse link between low birth weight and obesity, study finds
Babies who are born small have a tendency to put on weight during childhood and adolescence if allowed free access to calories. However, a new animal model study at UCLA found when small babies were placed on a diet of moderately regulated calories during infancy, the propensity of becoming obese decreased.

Life Sciences - Agronomy/Food Science - 2.04
Babies’ brains are programmed by what mums eat
Women who fall pregnant while dieting are more likely to have a child that could become obese or diabetic in later life, new research suggests. While the study was carried out in sheep, University of Manchester scientists suspect the findings may hold true for humans as well.

Agronomy/Food Science - Architecture - 23.03
From foraging to farming: the 10,000-year revolution
From foraging to farming: the 10,000-year revolution
Excavation of 19,000-year-old hunter-gatherer remains, including a vast camp site, is fuelling a reinterpretation of the greatest fundamental shift in human civilisation - the origins of agriculture.

Life Sciences - Agronomy/Food Science - 19.03
New and much cheaper genomics technique takes off
New and much cheaper genomics technique takes off
Genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS), a powerful new technique developed at Cornell, is leveling the playing field in genomics research. Less than a year after publication, it is being applied to answer questions about diverse species, including hops, fox, turf grass, maize, cow, tomato and raspberry.

Agronomy/Food Science - Medicine/Pharmacology - 14.03
How to Best Help Your Child Lose Weight: Lose Weight Yourself
A study by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and The University of Minnesota indicates that a parent's weight change is a key contributor to the success of a child's weight loss in family-based treatment of childhood obesity.

Agronomy/Food Science - Life Sciences - 12.03
The number of foods in a meal determines how much you’ll eat
The number of foods in a meal determines how much you'll eat
The wider the variety of foods served at a meal, the more a person will eat, new Cornell research shows. Conversely, having a "one-pot" dish, such as a soup, pasta, stew or stir-fry, will cut down on the amount of food and calories consumed.

Agronomy/Food Science - Business/Economics - 29.02
Scientific research to sports supplement in time to boost training
PA 70/12 When new evidence published last year in the Journal of Physiology revealed the dramatic benefits of taking L-carnitine and carbohydrate in combination with exercise, researchers at The University of Nottingham did not stop there.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Agronomy/Food Science - 22.02
Exposure to micronutrients prior to pregnancy has been associated with gene modifications in offspring
Exposure to micronutrients prior to pregnancy has been associated with gene modi
Scientists find that micronutrients affect methylation, which has been associated with changes in the immune system.

Agronomy/Food Science - Medicine/Pharmacology - 20.02
Faulty fat sensor implicated in obesity and liver disease
Imperial College London Media Release Defects in a protein led by researchers at Imperial College London. The findings highlight a promising target for new drugs to treat obesity and metabolic disorders.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Agronomy/Food Science - 15.02
Owning a dog encourages exercise in pregnant women
  Scientists at the University of Liverpool have found that women who own dogs are more physically active during pregnancy than those who don't. The study of more than 11,000 pregnant women, in partnership with Mars Petcare, showed that those who owned dogs were approximately 50% more likely to achieve the recommended 30 minutes of exercise a day through high levels of brisk walking than those without dogs.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Agronomy/Food Science - 15.02
Owning a dog encourages exercise in pregnant women
Owning a dog encourages exercise in pregnant women
A study of more than 11,000 pregnant women in Children of the 90s at the University of Bristol shows that those who owned dogs were approximately 50 per cent more likely than those who didn't to achieve the recommended 30 minutes of exercise a day through high levels of brisk walking.  Scientists suggest that, as walking is a low-risk exercise, walking a dog could form part of a broader strategy to improve the health of pregnant women.

Agronomy/Food Science - Medicine/Pharmacology - 15.02
Parent-training intervention curbs pediatric obesity rates, study shows
Researchers found that after one year, there was a 9 percent reduction in overweight and obese children in the parent-training intervention group, while a control group that did not receive the parent training had a 16 percent increase in overweight and obese children.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Agronomy/Food Science - 13.02
Sri Lanka diabetes warning
Sri Lanka diabetes warning
Scientists at King's College London and the National Diabetes Centre (Sri Lanka) have found evidence of a high number of risk factors for type 2 diabetes among the young urban population in Sri Lanka.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Agronomy/Food Science - 7.02
Baby-led weaning promotes healthy food preferences
A new study by psychologists at The University of Nottingham has shown that babies who are weaned using solid finger food are more likely to develop healthier food preferences and are less likely to become overweight as children than those who are spoon-fed pureed food.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Agronomy/Food Science - 2.02
Higher intake of processed meat linked to greater type 2 diabetes risk in population with high diabetes rates
Diabetes risk is increased in men and women who eat a diet that is high in processed meats, according to a study published online this week in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition . Processed meats include hot dogs, lunch meat, sausages and canned meats.

Agronomy/Food Science - Environmental Sciences - 30.01
Kids under chronic stress more likely to become obese
The more ongoing stress children are exposed to, the greater the odds they will become obese by adolescence, reports Cornell environmental psychologist Gary Evans in the journal Pediatrics (129:1). Nine-year-old children who were chronically exposed to such stressors as poverty, crowded housing and family turmoil gain more weight and were significantly heavier by age 13 than they would have been otherwise, the study found.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Agronomy/Food Science - 26.01
Heart attack deaths have halved
The death rate from heart attacks in England has halved in the last decade, according to Oxford University research. The study published in the British Medical Journal found that there were fewer heart attacks in the last decade – and fewer of these were fatal – compared with earlier years.

Agronomy/Food Science - Life Sciences - 23.01
Straight from the horse’s mouth -- study reveals owners supplement choices
PA 22/12 Horse owners are most likely to use their vet to guide the choice of nutritional supplements they feed their animal, but also rely heavily on recommendations from other riders, a unique study has revealed.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Agronomy/Food Science - 20.01
Sleep Problems Increase Risk for Cardiovascular Disease, Diabetes and Obesity, Penn Study Shows
People who suffer from sleep disturbances are at major risk for obesity, diabetes, and coronary artery disease, according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Agronomy/Food Science - 19.01
Tuna-eating teenagers less likely to suffer depression
Tuna-eating teenagers less likely to suffer depression
New research from the Children of the 90s study at the University of Bristol, which has been charting the health of 14,500 children since their birth in the early 1990s, shows that the link between low levels of vitamin D and depression is established in childhood and that ensuring children have a good intake of vitamin D could help reduce depression in adolescence and adulthood.

Life Sciences - Agronomy/Food Science - 13.01
Maize gene could lead to bumper harvest
Maize gene could lead to bumper harvest
The discovery of a new ‘provisioning' gene in maize plants that regulates the transfer of nutrients from the plant to the seed could lead to increased crop yields and improve food security. Scientists from Oxford University and the University of Warwick, in collaboration with agricultural biotech research company Biogemma-Limagrain, have identified the gene, called Meg 1.

Life Sciences - Agronomy/Food Science - 13.01
Discovery of plant ‘nourishing gene’ brings hope for increased crop seed yield and food security
University of Warwick scientists have discovered a “nourishing gene” which controls the transfer of nutrients from plant to seed - a significant step which could help increase global food production.

Agronomy/Food Science - Life Sciences - 12.01
Wasp rediscovered in upstate New York after 100 years
Wasp rediscovered in upstate New York after 100 years
Two entomologists in search of one insect have discovered two others: a tiny wasp that hadn't been seen in North America in nearly 100 years, and one that has never been recorded here. First found in Ithaca, N.Y., in 1915 by Cornell researchers M.D. Leonard and C.R. Crosby, the fairyfly Gonatocerus ovicenatus has not been collected on the continent since then, prompting some European entomologists to question whether it truly was established in North America.

Agronomy/Food Science - Medicine/Pharmacology - 26.12.2011
Evidence found for brain injury in diet-induced obesity
Agronomy/Food Science - Medicine/Pharmacology - 23.11.2011
Obesity as a Vicious Circle
Social Sciences - Agronomy/Food Science - 18.11.2011
Size matters?
Life Sciences - Agronomy/Food Science - 11.11.2011
Better muscles thanks to a genetic knock-out
Medicine/Pharmacology - Agronomy/Food Science - 27.10.2011
Tiny teeth in tatters
Life Sciences - Agronomy/Food Science - 18.10.2011
Protein key to curbing overeating and preventing obesity
Agronomy/Food Science - Medicine/Pharmacology - 5.10.2011
What are you feeding your horse this autumn?
Business/Economics - Agronomy/Food Science - 3.10.2011
Research uncovers what increases chicken wellbeing
Medicine/Pharmacology - Agronomy/Food Science - 26.09.2011
Cell dysfunction linked to obesity and metabolic disorders
Life Sciences - Agronomy/Food Science - 1.09.2011
‘Gene overdose’ causes extreme thinness
Life Sciences - Agronomy/Food Science - 29.08.2011
Researchers identify how insects resist Bt pesticides
Chemistry - Agronomy/Food Science - 20.07.2011
Honey bee tolerates some synthetic pesticides
Medicine/Pharmacology - Agronomy/Food Science - 20.06.2011
Family meals promote healthier weights, eating behaviors in children
Medicine/Pharmacology - Agronomy/Food Science - 9.06.2011
Will rising BMIs reverse heart attack decline?
Life Sciences - Agronomy/Food Science - 16.05.2011
Genetic master switch identified in obesity and diabetes
Agronomy/Food Science - Medicine/Pharmacology - 16.05.2011
’Master switch’ gene for obesity and diabetes
Life Sciences - Agronomy/Food Science - 9.05.2011
Obesity impairs muscle function in rats, Penn State researchers find
Agronomy/Food Science - Environmental Sciences - 6.05.2011
Air-quality issues gain importance in animal agriculture
Agronomy/Food Science - Medicine/Pharmacology - 3.05.2011
Midlife overweight may increase risk of dementia
Agronomy/Food Science - Medicine/Pharmacology - 31.03.2011
Research shows taste perception of bitter foods depends on genetics
Medicine/Pharmacology - Agronomy/Food Science - 28.03.2011
Researchers discover link between a gene, lack of folate and colon cancer risk in mice
Agronomy/Food Science - Life Sciences - 15.03.2011
Gene identified that causes neural tube defects in mice
Life Sciences - Agronomy/Food Science - 3.03.2011
Researchers find that modern humans originated in southern Africa
Medicine/Pharmacology - Agronomy/Food Science - 3.03.2011
Middle aged diabetics can die six years earlier
Medicine/Pharmacology - Agronomy/Food Science - 1.03.2011
Happiness improves health and lengthens life
Agronomy/Food Science - Medicine/Pharmacology - 1.03.2011
Sugary drinks associated with higher blood pressure
History/Philosophy - Agronomy/Food Science - 14.02.2011
Ancient Mesoamerican sculpture uncovered in southern Mexico
Medicine/Pharmacology - Agronomy/Food Science - 4.02.2011
Obesity has doubled since 1980, major global analysis of risk factors reveals
Medicine/Pharmacology - Agronomy/Food Science - 25.01.2011
Rising indoor winter temperatures linked to obesity?
Agronomy/Food Science - Life Sciences - 25.01.2011
Insects that deter predators produce fewer offspring
Medicine/Pharmacology - Agronomy/Food Science - 19.01.2011
Researchers discover susceptibility gene for skin cancer
Agronomy/Food Science - Veterinary Science - 18.01.2011
Obesity in horses could be as high as in humans
Agronomy/Food Science - Business/Economics - 10.01.2011
Obesity linked to economic insecurity
Agronomy/Food Science - 15.12.2010
Eating at screen can lead to later snack attacks?
Agronomy/Food Science - Life Sciences - 14.12.2010
Sipping green tea regularly can alter how we perceive flavor
Medicine/Pharmacology - Agronomy/Food Science - 10.12.2010
Genome of barley disease reveals surprises
Medicine/Pharmacology - Agronomy/Food Science - 1.12.2010
More fruit and veg unlikely to protect against cancer
Medicine/Pharmacology - Agronomy/Food Science - 30.11.2010
Report sets new dietary intake levels for calcium and vitamin D
Agronomy/Food Science - 16.11.2010
Researcher explores whether fish feel pain
Agronomy/Food Science - Medicine/Pharmacology - 15.11.2010
Overactive FTO gene does cause overeating and obesity
Agronomy/Food Science - Life Sciences - 10.11.2010
Book, research explore whether fish feel pain
Medicine/Pharmacology - Agronomy/Food Science - 7.11.2010
Low blood levels of vitamin D linked to chubbier kids, faster weight gain
Medicine/Pharmacology - Agronomy/Food Science - 4.11.2010
Probing Question: Why is it so hard to lose weight?
Agronomy/Food Science - Medicine/Pharmacology - 27.10.2010
New insight into links between obesity and activity in the brain
Medicine/Pharmacology - Agronomy/Food Science - 13.10.2010
Compound in celery, peppers reduces age-related memory deficits
Life Sciences - Agronomy/Food Science - 11.10.2010
Apple and pear shapes: partly down to genes
Life Sciences - Agronomy/Food Science - 11.10.2010
Large-scale analysis identifies 32 genetic loci for obesity
Agronomy/Food Science - 30.09.2010
Research examines cycle of overeating and obesity
Agronomy/Food Science - Medicine/Pharmacology - 30.09.2010
New research: infant nutrition and obesity
Agronomy/Food Science - Medicine/Pharmacology - 28.09.2010
Obesity increases risk of periodontal disease in teens
Earth Sciences - Agronomy/Food Science - 20.09.2010
NASA Study Shows Desert Dust Cuts Colorado River Flow
Earth Sciences - Agronomy/Food Science - 20.09.2010
NASA Funded Study Shows Desert Dust Cuts Colorado River Flow
Environmental Sciences - Agronomy/Food Science - 8.09.2010
Expanded Irrigation Masks Global Warming Effects While Sowing the Seeds for Famine
Medicine/Pharmacology - Agronomy/Food Science - 25.08.2010
Some vitamin supplements increase presence of the HIV virus in breast milk
Medicine/Pharmacology - Agronomy/Food Science - 23.08.2010
Polyphenol antioxidents inhibit iron absorbtion
Medicine/Pharmacology - Agronomy/Food Science - 23.08.2010
Polyphenol antioxidants inhibit iron absorption
Medicine/Pharmacology - Agronomy/Food Science - 5.08.2010
Excess maternal weight gain increases birth weight, study finds
Medicine/Pharmacology - Agronomy/Food Science - 12.07.2010
Video: Eating pistachios lowers cholesterol, boosts antioxidants, more
Agronomy/Food Science - Earth Sciences - 5.07.2010
Hunger atlas takes a new look at an old problem
Agronomy/Food Science - Life Sciences - 5.07.2010
Scientists find natural way to curb your greed
Agronomy/Food Science - Medicine/Pharmacology - 5.05.2010
Obesity epidemic may be flattening out - but no time for complacency say experts