Don’t have room for dessert? The bacteria in your gut may be telling you something. Twenty minutes after a meal, gut microbes produce proteins that can suppress food intake in animals, reports a study published November 24 in Cell Metabolism. The researchers also show how these proteins injected into mice and rats act on theContinue reading “Gut microbes signal to the brain when they are full”
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Americans buy health plan to avoid high cost of medical care
I buy a health plan to avoid high cost of medical care and most Americans have the same reason (motherjones.com). And if health insurance against devastating medical costs is a good thing for us middle-class types, it is a good thing for the poor people too. I remembered my co-worker who few months ago sufferedContinue reading “Americans buy health plan to avoid high cost of medical care”
Cancer rate dropping in the USA
During 2000 through 2009, death rates among men decreased for 10 of the 17 most common cancers (lung, prostate, colon and rectum, leukemia, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, kidney, stomach, myeloma, oral cavity and pharynx, and larynx) and increased for melanoma of the skin and cancers of the pancreas and liver. During the same 10-year period, death ratesContinue reading “Cancer rate dropping in the USA”