Sentences with phrase «few scientific studies of»

Almost all, from Wikipedia re Liver (food): «There have been several anecdotal reports and a few scientific studies of vitamin A poisoning due to the consumption of the livers of polar bears, seals and huskies.

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I make this statement not on the basis of a scientific quantitative study but on the basis of qualitatively interviewing a few hundred buyers in the last few years.

It can be consumed either before or after exercise and scientific studies demonstrate that within a few hours of consuming a product with cocoa flavanols, the cocoa flavanols enter the body and start to help support your cardiovascular system.

A few commenters on the Strollerderby post, They Say: Spanking Makes Your Kid Mean, a Bit Dumb, question how scientific this study was and if other variables could have played a role in the aggressiveness of the children.

While advocates of solitary infant sleeping arrangements have claimed any number of benefits of infant sleeping alone, the truth o the matter is, few, if any, of these supposed benefits have been shown to be true through scientific studies.

Scientific studies have shown us that breastfed children have far fewer and less serious illnesses than those who never receive breast milk, including a reduced risk of SIDS, childhood cancers, and diabetes (1, 2, 3).

Since the few studies GFI cites are from lesser known medical journals, and even those studies don't fully back up their claims, one must wonder whether they are citing all the information they view as being «friendly» while ignoring the bulk of scientific research.

AAAS developed the questionnaire because serving society is part of the mandate for many professional societies and funding programs, and its importance is often cited in public statements and international conventions — but few agree on what those social responsibilities are or ought to be, said Mark Frankel, director of the AAAS Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights and Law program, which conducted the study along with the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition.

Many of the submissions from doctors (she recognized a few of the names from questionable JAMA papers) read more like advertising testimonials than well - designed, well - executed scientific studies.

Needing to write a thesis in the late 1970s for his doctorate in dentistry at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Szyf approached a young biochemistry professor named Aharon Razin, who had recently made a splash by publishing his first few studies in some of the world's top scientific journals.

«We Should Have Been Told» Cross-checking U.S. and European public records, including regulatory filings, scientific studies and civil lawsuits, ProPublica was able to identify a few of the drugs that are on the U.S. market because of tests performed at Cetero's Houston lab (see chart.)

This makes it very difficult to accurately predict weather changes more than a few days in advance, though weather forecasters are continually working to extend this limit through the scientific study of weather, meteorology.

As several of the speakers noted, scientific studies in the past few years have proved the value of potentially powerful new prevention tools.

In his commentary on the AHA's new scientific statement on the Social Determinants of Risk and Outcomes for Cardiovascular Disease Siscovick explains that the social determinants of health are multi-dimensional and multi-level, yet we have few studies that examine the social determinants in large, diverse populations.

«I've been working, studying, and taking photos of the wonderful wildlife in the Chernobyl area for over 20 years and am very pleased our work is reaching an international scientific audience,» says Tatiana Deryabina from the Polessye State Radioecological Reserve in Belarus, a few miles from the site of the Chernobyl accident.

He recognized that the study of aging had lacked robust scientific inquiry, and he conjectured that molecular biology tools could fuel real progress in the field — a forward - looking viewpoint that few others espoused at the time, says immunologist Claudio Franceschi, director of the Italian National Research Center on Aging in Ancona.

In just a few decades, the study of ancient DNA has gone from a scientific curiosity to an extremely powerful method for reconstructing past biological phenomena.

The results of these studies, which are expected to be made public by the end of the year, can be seen as preparatory work, soliciting ideas from the scientific community for the next Planetary Science Decadal Survey that is due to come out in a few years.

Due to an aging scientific workforce within NOAA and fewer students going into the necessary fields of study for fish stock assessment, there could be as many as 180 vacancies within NMFS over the next decade, according to a 2008 report issued by the Departments of Commerce and Education.

Lee and his colleagues at GenEdit already have a few scientific studies under review, including one that uses gold nanoparticles as a core material to load the three components of the CRISPR system.

What is lost in many headlines is that scientific studies usually express their results as a change in risk of developing a disease, not a direct causation, and very few diseases are caused by one chemical or one food additive.

Here are a few of the most encouraging scientific studies on the role nature can play in recovery:

I can't speak to the power of ESP for certain, as very few scientific studies have addressed this topic.

While several benefits of HGH have been clinically proven, the «effect» on penis size can be a topic of huge debate mainly because there are no scientific studies done on it except a few like this one which was done on young boys with growth hormone deficiency.

Despite its long history of use in aromatherapy, cedar essential oil has been tested in very few scientific studies.

While I have read of a few people online with testimonials who have had success with Protocel, there are no scientific studies for it at this time, so I can not recommend it.

To date, few scientific studies have tested the health effects of yucca.

The Danish study, «Richness of human gut microbiome correlates with metabolic markers,» (or read the University of Copenhagen scientific article «One in four has alarmingly few intestinal bacteria» showed that «one in four had 40 % less gut bacteria than average.

In the case of some chemicals few scientific studies have been carried out or they are still controversial, but they are nevertheless strongly suspected to damage our friendly gut bugs, including:

In scientific studies, women who ate a large salad at the beginning of a meal ate fewer calories from the rest of the meal, and larger salads reduced calories more than smaller ones.

Ashwagandha is one of the few herbs that has been rigorously studied by researchers — and it has a mountain of quality scientific research behind it showing that it truly does work to improve health on many levels — from repairing and rebuilding the brain and nervous system, to balancing hormone levels, to strengthening the immune system, fighting aging, reducing anxiety and stress and improving mood, among many other things.

Although there haven't been many scientific studies undertaken to see and verify the usefulness of creatine nitrate, nevertheless, from the very few studies so conducted, it has been successfully concluded that creatine nitrate approximately contains almost ten times the water solubility like its counterparts creatine monohydrate.

Suggesting these kinds of radical lifestyle changes to otherwise healthy women who experience painful menstrual cramps seems cruel and irresponsible since there are very few scientific studies on curing menstrual pain and therefore no proof these changes work.

Castor oil, derived from the castor seed, has been used for thousands of years to treat a wide variety of health conditions, although scientific studies are few; there are reports of some side negative effects from castor oil, so you should proceed with caution in experimenting with its use

Scientific studies have proven that punishment fails in dog training, and here are just a few of the reasons why: The use of punishment is training your dog what NOT to do, while using positive reinforcement trains the dog... Read More

While we still need a lot more scientific evidence to back up the use of probiotics for specific conditions in canines, a few studies have been done.

There have been scientific studies that indicate that a few cases of cardiac failure, particularly in boxers, are due to a deficiency in the amino acid L - carnitine.

The ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center notes there are very few scientific studies looking at the efficacy and safety of CBD use in companion animals.

Other specialized blood tests that detect DNA of the organism, such as Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) a technique used in molecular biology to amplify a single copy or a few copies of a piece of DNA across several orders of magnitude, generating thousands to millions of copies of a particular DNA sequence and serologythe scientific study or diagnostic examination of blood serum, especially with regard to the response of the immune system to pathogens or introduced substances, are helpful.

Like climate change deniers, TNR advocates ignore the preponderance of scientific evidence, but love to cite a few flawed studies and anecdotes that they believe prove their point.

The judge accepted the proposition that ``... in any event, nothing in the 1996 Act (or elsewhere) obliged teachers to adopt a position of studied neutrality between, on the one hand, scientific views which reflect the great majority of world scientific opinion and, on the other, a minority view held by a few dissentient scientists.»

A study to be released in November by an American scientific group will expose ExxonMobil as the primary funder of no fewer than 29 climate change denial front groups in 2004 alone.

These are just a few of the considerations that lead me to insist on being open - minded in pursuing my scientific study.

In scientific literature a few comparisons between the SRES projections and reality exist, like a 2007 PNAS study, which stated «The emissions growth rate since 2000 was greater than for the most fossil - fuel intensive of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change emissions scenarios developed in the late 1990s.»

Although numerous reviews have examined the credibility of climate researchers (Anderegg et al. 2010), the scientific consensus on climate change (Doran and Kendall Zimmerman 2009) and the complexity of media reporting (Corner et al. 2012), few studies have undertaken an empirical review of the publication record to evaluate the existence of publication biases in climate change science.

But according to government and scientific studies, all of these sources will yield at most a few million additional barrels of liquid fuels per day (this includes coal liquifaction [GTL], hydrogen, oil sands, oil shale, biofuels, and solar.).

One of the few studies that does ask citizens, a paper by Kahan et al released this month, produced an interesting finding: that when people read scientific material about geoengineering, it reduces political polarization on climate change.

I would say that the more a scientific issue overlaps with world views, the more politics interferes, but I would say that there are relatively few scientific issues that have no political ramifications (even the very act of studying science is politically linked), and many, many scientific issues that have overlap with political issues.

«By writing these lines I will just probably achieve that a few of my future studies will, again, not see the light of publication,» Zorita candidly admits, a reference to the ClimateGate emails discussing how to suppress data and scientific studies that do not agree with the UN IPCC views.

Through clear descriptions of actual scientific studies, a young reader absorbs clues that are symptoms of global warming: rainforest deforestation, rising sea levels, and changing carbon dioxide levels, to name a few.