http://pharmaco-nutrition.net Putting Science First. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:36:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The facts stated in the current editorial of Nature (Vol. 454) on the bad shape of global nutrition & dietary habits are certainly not new to most of us; nonetheless, I very much liked the comment on the state of current funding practices in the field of nutrition as it - at least for ... http://pharmaco-nutrition.net/2008/07/03/nature-editorial-on-bad-nutrition-and-public-health/ The latest issue of PNAS contains a collection of more than a dozen articles on reactive oxygen species (ROS): "(...) The contents of this Special Feature on Reactive Oxygen Species in Chemistry and Biology represents a sampling of the excellent work that is being carried out at this important interface of chemistry ... http://pharmaco-nutrition.net/2008/06/19/ros-special-feature-pnas-17-june-2008/ For the last couple of days I have been digging myself through I don't know how many webpages and articles in search of the truth: to fear cholesterol or not to fear. What a mess! And what a shame to be part of the biomedical research field. Whenever I thought that I had ... http://pharmaco-nutrition.net/2008/06/18/the-killing-fields-of-cholesterol-research/ Source: Neuroscience Letters 439 (2008): 208-211 Article Type: Original Research Authors: Kushida S et al. In their latest paper, Kushida and colleagues examined in Amyloid beta-infused rats the effect of soft-diet feeding on two parameters which are typically affected in Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) patients a) the release of the neurotransmitter dopamine b) the learning ability ... http://pharmaco-nutrition.net/2008/06/15/low-chewing-efforts-worsen-alzheimer%e2%80%99s-disease-pathology/ I don't know whether many of you already read this article. As it is not (yet?) listed in the PubMed and has been published in a rather new journal (Current Aging Science) most probably not. Anyway, I very much liked reading the review by Alberto Sanz and Rhoda Stefanatos (University of ... http://pharmaco-nutrition.net/2008/06/06/supporting-or-denying-mfrta/ For the past almost 20 years my body weight remains constant – no matter what I eat. Bad metabolizer is what most people (and maybe textbooks) would say. Another explanation I once heard from a colleague is that people like him and me would ‘suffer’ from a reduced gut surface ... http://pharmaco-nutrition.net/2008/05/25/gut-microbiota-transmission-affects-body-weight-regulation/ Sorry for my long absence, but the arrival of the young lady shown below kept me considerably busy during the last few weeks; now I hope to be back on track....if & when Mia allows.... http://pharmaco-nutrition.net/2008/05/24/time-out/ Today I would like to introduce a new category which I wanted to add for quite some time already, i.e. book reviews. Not necessarily of brand new releases only, but also of those (older) publications that hopefully will provide you with same enlightenment and diversion I experienced while reading these ... http://pharmaco-nutrition.net/2008/04/21/the-dna-time-machine/ Source: J Neuroinflammation (2008), 5: 12 (open access) Article Type: Original Research Authors: X Chen et al. A morning without coffee is unthinkable for me. And especially during the day in the lab I need the regular ‘perfusion’ with the black gold. A habit, which - based on the latest publication by Chen ... http://pharmaco-nutrition.net/2008/04/18/coffee-food-for-thought/ Source: Journal of Gerontology (Biol. Sci.) 63A (2008): 242-252 Article Type: Original Research Authors: I Lenaerts et al. When working with C. elegans myself (limited times though) I didn’t break my head too much about the pros and cons of feeding them with heat-inactivated E. coli as long as each plate contained the ... http://pharmaco-nutrition.net/2008/04/12/c-elegans%e2%80%99-food-better-dead-or-alive/