Sentences with phrase «human diets as»

Julie Lesnik's research focuses on food culture and the evolution of the human diet as they relate to edible insects.

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The influential paper identified insects as playing a key role in solving global food security issues and urged for the diversification of human diets.

Paleoanthropologists have disproven the basic premise that the modern human digestive system is the same as that of early humans, but research also suggests that a diet of unprocessed, hormone - free meat sources coupled with fresh fruits and vegetables has clear benefits.

On a normal diet, the human body breaks down carbohydrates into glucose, which are used for energy or stored as glycogen in liver and muscle tissue.

When carbohydrates go missing from a person's diet — as happened when humans foraged for food — the body taps its fat stores for energy.

> Recognizing some sins (as you say, murder) as worse (more damaging to oneself and others) than say, falling > off your diet, is not something one «loves» to «pick» as you say; but it does apply a measure of human ability and > accountability.

Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

Indeed in agriculture and in human and animal health, diseases are now forestalled wherever possible, by such methods as the application of trace elements to the soil, sterilization, a balanced diet and immunization.

Since ages, cheese has been an important part of the human diet, both as a dietary staple and gourmet food.

Some of us have to consider health as well as taste (I use a low carb diet to maintain normal blood glucose instead of taking diabetes drugs, while at the same time I focus on foods that have a long tradition of supporting healthy populations, as well as limit processed «fake food» ingredients which are novel to the human diet).

«Previous research, including human clinical trials, supports that diet beverages are an effective tool as part of an overall weight management plan.

Some words of wisdom grace the walls with none other than Albert Einstein's famous quote,» Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.»

The best comparison in nature as to the percentage of MCFAs being consumed in a diet is human breast milk.

As a result of this Monoculture model, the human diet has been reduced from the diversity of nearly 8500 species providing a diversity of nutrients that the human body needs, to just 8 crops, largely producing carbohydrates.

But Millennials must also practice a healthy diet of connected and disconnected behaviors to serve as their children's role model of how best to leverage tech to enrich life while still remaining human.

Vitamins, scientists learned, existed not only in meat, grains, and dairy products, foods they had always considered vital to nourishment and growth, but also in fruits and vegetables, which had previously been regarded as benign at best and as suspicious by many, although several nineteenth - century groups did espouse the virtues of a vegetarian diet.43 The promotion of fruits and vegetables as vital to human growth and nourishment grew during the Great War.

To determine whether a completely human milk based diet during the first 10 days of life reduces the combined incidence of serious infection, NEC, and mortality as compared to formula feeding and 2.

The findings in this study also provide new evidence for pediatricians as they provide guidance to breastfeeding mothers who may be considering incorporating formula into their infant's diet, and they may have implications for decisions around the use of donor human milk in cases when supplementation is needed.

As ecosystems of the human environment change during development, pregnancy, or with changing diets, which bacterial species remain or how these microbial species function may shift is slowly becoming understood.

Sugar gliders can form very strong bonds with their human families, but as highly social animals they should live in pairs or small groups and must have a spacious enclosure, as well as a carefully monitored diet.

Keeping atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases below 550 ppm, let alone going back to 350 ppm or below, will not only require a massive shift in human society — from industry to diet — but also, most likely, new technologies, such as capturing CO2 directly from the air.

Instead of connecting online with other people — who very likely are zombie spambots peddling pregnancy hormones as diet aids, or zombie humans insisting that the president of the United States is an alien — we will link up with the objects we own and love.

Our results suggest, in specific circumstances, there may be a potential benefit to eating more soy foods as part of an overall healthy diet and lifestyle,» said Zhang, who is also the 2016 - 2017 Miriam E. Nelson Tisch Faculty Fellow at the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life and an adjunct scientist in nutritional epidemiology at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts.

Humans have a perplexing tendency to fear rare threats such as shark attacks while blithely ignoring far greater risks like unsafe sex and an unhealthy diet.

In this baseline diet, roughly 80 percent of available cropland was used to grow crops for animal feed, such as hay, while the other 20 percent was devoted to fruits, vegetables and grains for human consumption.

It is a common issue with nutrition studies, she notes — given the vast diversity of human research subjects, variations in the concentration or mixture of supplements, and often uncontrolled factors such as baseline diets or preexisting illnesses, it's not unusual to see different studies canceling each other out.

And perhaps surprisingly, these molecules are not produced by human cells, but by a person's gut microbes as they process food in the diet.

Lean beef can be enjoyed as the predominant protein source in a DASH - like diet, along with fruits, vegetables and low - fat dairy, to effectively help lower blood pressure in healthy individuals, the researchers report in the Journal of Human Hypertension.

In the Vet Record today, a team of researchers based in The Netherlands say these diets may be contaminated with bacteria and parasites, and as such may pose a risk to both animal and human health.

Using procedures established by Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease research, rats received resveratrol once a day for seven days in about the same concentration as a human would receive from a healthy diet.

But this should not deter you, for there are plenty more accessible contributions such as those by Coppens («Brain, locomotion, diet, and culture: how a primate, by chance, became a man»), Phillip Tobias on «The brain of the first hominid» and Rebecca Cann's chapter «Mitochondrial DNA and human evolution», which as a relative novice, I found very helpful.

Apis mellifera — seen here above as it hatches from a honeycomb — provides other benefits: About one - third of the human diet is derived from bee - pollinated crops.

Rivet recommends that the «availability of human refuse in natural areas inhabited by bears should be eliminated for bear, as well as human, health and safety,» adding that, «diets of captive [bears] should be carefully selected to avoid high saturated [fat] content.»

A new study published today in the Canadian Journal of Zoology found that captive bears fed a diet high in saturated fats and low in «healthy» polyunsaturated fats did not show symptoms of disease typically observed in humans eating foods high in saturated fats such as insulin resistance, a precursor to type 2 diabetes.

Black bears in Yosemite National Park that don't seek out human foods subsist primarily on plants and nuts, according to a study conducted by biologists at UC San Diego who also found that ants and other sources of animal protein, such as mule deer, make up only a small fraction of the bears» annual diet.

In both human and laboratory studies, the offspring of mothers who are obese or consume a high - fat diet during pregnancy are much more likely to be overweight and have weight - related problems such as metabolic syndrome, diabetes and heart disease later in life.

The hypothesis on dietary differences between modern humans and Neandertals is based on the study of animal bones found in caves occupied by these two types of hominids, which can provide clues about their diet, but it is always difficult to exclude large predators living at the same time as being responsible for at least part of this accumulation.

This narrow, muscular tube attached to the large intestine served as a special area to digest cellulose when the human diet consisted more of plant matter than animal protein.

The mice were then placed on a calorie - restricted diet, which usually precedes the development of anorexia in adolescent humans and may act as a trigger for eating disorders.

«Preclinical evidence suggests that dietary interventions, such as calorie restriction, intermittent fasting, low - fat diet and the ketogenic diet, have the potential to reverse some of these obesity - associated alterations; however, more clinical data are needed to confirm translation to human subjects.»

«Teeth are usually really well - preserved and can tell you so much about diet and health, in addition to genetic relationships and social structure,» says Marin Pilloud of the University of Nevada, Reno, who studies the size and shape of teeth as part of her work in Çatalhöyük's human remains lab.

The results imply there is likely some olfactory component affecting humans on caloric restriction diets as well.

The results come as close as any can to proving that calorie restriction could significantly slow aging in humans — even if such a lean diet would not appeal to most of us.

«We have used a relatively new method known as ancient starch analysis to analyse ancient human diet.

«Fasting blood sugar is easily measured and our findings suggest that it could serve as a useful measure in advising some patients on the type of diet that is most beneficial for their weight loss,» said senior author Sai Krupa Das, Ph.D., scientist in the Energy Metabolism Laboratory at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University in Boston.

Males will vary their fruit diet on occasion by driving their hardened, fruit - piercing mouthparts into mammals, such as cattle, tapirs and even elephants and humans, for a drink of fresh blood.

As processed foods become more common elements of our diet, there has been a significant increase in concentrations of these particles found in the human body.

Walford and researchers have demonstrated that mice that eat only 60 percent of their preferred diet will live as long as 56 months — the equivalent of 165 human years — provided they start their diets before three months of age.

This research could have important implications for developing countries whose populations rely on rice as a staple of their diets and are in need of cheap, readily available material to improve soil quality and decrease arsenic levels that threaten human health.

Joseph Poore highlighted vast reductions in human land use as yet another clear and positive benefit of diet change (12...