The spinach-eating cartoon character Popeye has much to teach us, new research from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet shows. The muscles’ cellular power plants — the mitochondria — are boosted by nitrate, a substance found in …
BOSTON — November 30, 2010 — The brain contains more cholesterol than any other organ in the body, has to produce its own cholesterol and won’t function normally if it doesn’t churn out enough. Defects in cholesterol metabolism have been linked …
URBANA — The University of Illinois scientists who linked eating tomatoes with a reduced risk of prostate cancer have developed a tool that will help them trace the metabolism of tomato carotenoids in the human body. And they’ve secured funding fr…
There may be a fundamental link between aspects of an individual’s personality and their capacity to exercise or generate energy, recent research suggests.
Humans are not the only animals that choose to exercise and — as with people – individual…
Smokers with a specific genetic variant may be more vulnerable to cigarette cravings and relapse when trying to quit smoking, a study has found. This study also shows that the anti-depressant drug bupropion may lessen these effects, especially among females.