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Find Out How Fruit Flies Detect Sweet Foods
Insects represent remarkable diversity and have adapted to all sorts of ecological nooks and crannies to sustain in this nature. For example, they have taste receptors - novel proteins - with which...
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Keep Off Fruit Juice, Says UK Obesity Expert
Fruit juice shouldn't be one of the five-a-day diet, warns Dr. Susan Jebb, diet and obesity expert and health adviser to the UK government. Five-a-day is a a href="...
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Process of Breaking Down Fibrous Fruits and Vegetables by Gut Bacteria...
Researchers have identified the sequence of genes that help bacteria living in our stomach to break down dietary fiber found in fruits and vegetables. The findings of the study, conducted by...
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Movement of Fruit Fly Influences Its Circadian Clock
A new study published in the journal Science suggests that the internal circadian clock of a Drosophila or fruit fly is influenced by its own movements and it can be synchronized by using vibrations....
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International Space Station Farm Bears Fruit and Vegetables
People those who have a garden attached to their house and still don't grow vegetables must go green with envy at the news. Astronauts are growing vegetables in an experimental greenhouse named Lada...
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Heavy Consumption of Fruit Juices is Bad for the Health
While drinking fruit juice is considered as healthy, researchers at University of Glasgow's Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences suggest that drinking more than one glass of fruit juice in...
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Fruit Prices may be Linked to Your Kid's Obesity!
The prices of fruits and vegetables could actually be linked to the risk of your child suffering from obesity. When the prices of fruits and vegetables go up, families may buy less of them and...
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Treatment of Brain Injury Might be Possible by Using Fruit Fly's Pruning...
Duke University researchers have revealed that a protein that controls the metamorphosis of the common fruit fly could help reverse brain injuries. This protein directs both the early development and...
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New School Meal Standards Increase Vegetable and Fruit Consumption
New federal standards launched in 2012 that require schools to offer healthy meals have led to an increase in the amount of fruit and vegetable consumption. This is according to a new study from...
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School Meal Standards Positively Impact Students' Fruit and Vegetable...
Getting children the right nutrition they need is a priority for schools as well as legislators, with nearly 32 million American students receiving government-subsidized meals every day. In the fall...
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Gene That Helps Fruit Flies Go to Sleep Discovered
Wide Awake - a mutant gene that sabotages how the biological clock sets the timing for sleep has been discovered by Johns Hopkins researchers. The finding also led them to the protein made by a normal...
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Young Women Who Include Lots of Fruits and Vegetables in Diet are Healthier...
New research suggests young women who eat a diet rich in fruits and vegetables show significantly lower rates of hardening in the arteries 20 years later. However, men did not appear to benefit the...
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Take 7 Helpings of Veggies and Fruits to Live Longer: Study
A new study has revealed that consuming seven helpings of fruits and vegetables daily will reduce the risk of dying from cancer and heart diseases. Till now the WHO has been recommending that people...
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Britons Should Eat More Fresh Fruit and Veg: Study
A new research into healthy eating reveals that Britons should eat seven portions of fresh fruit and vegetables a day. The state-run National Health Service currently recommends each person eats five...
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Seven Servings of Fruits and Veggies Needed to Cut Cancer, Heart Disease Risk
The struggle to eat enough fruit and vegetables had just got harder with a new advice being passed on in Britain. Over the past decade, Britain has absorbed if not adopted the idea of five a day, the...
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Fruit Flies Antennae Help Them Cruise Through Wind
Scientists have discovered the mechanism used by fruit flies to regulate their flight speed from their antennae by using both vision and wind-sensing information. The researchers traced the flies'...
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Sleep Deficits Among Fruit Flies may Disrupt Mating Later in Life
When your mom emphasized about having a good night's sleep, she was right. According to a new study published in iScience/i this week from researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the...
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Link Between Sleep and Immune Function in Fruit Flies Identified
In fruit flies scientists have discovered an association between sleep and immune system response. The findings are published in i Sleep /i. "It's an intuitive response to want to sleep when you get...
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Brain Circuit That Drives Daily Cycles of Rest and Activity Identified in...
A circuit in the brain of fruit flies that controls their daily, rhythmic behaviour of rest and activity has been described in emCell/em by Amita Sehgal, PhD, a professor of Neuroscience at the...
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Fruits and Vegetables may Cut Down Stroke Risk
Consuming more fruits and vegetables may cut down the risk of stroke. Researchers conducted a meta-analysis of 20 studies published over the last 19 years to assess the effects of fruit and vegetable...
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