For many people, gaining weight as they age is an unfortunate, but unavoidable, fact of life. Some people gain it in the belly area, some pack on the pounds lower down, in the thighs. Now, not gaining weight at all is probably the best option. But if...
What is known is that theres a correlation between people who gain lots of weight around the middle and people who develop metabolic disease. New Fat Cells Seem To Ward Off Disease In the thighs and other lower body parts, meanwhile, overeating resul...
Gardeners and botanists have known for a long time that when a green plant is shaded by neighboring plants it will often react by elongating its stem. This so-called shade-avoidance reaction raises the plants leaves out of the shade, toward the light...
Our last program talked about table salt, technically called sodium chloride, which is available in iodized formthat means that it includes a small amount of potassium iodide or sodium iodide added to the sodium chloride. Iodized salt is intended to...
It takes a lot of mental power to speak more than one language. In fact, being multilingual may help people cope with dementia better than people who speak only one language. Being Multilingual Is An Advantage Scientists think that people who are mul...
A baker adds yeast to a mixture of flour, water, and sugar for a very different reason, but the yeast does exactly the same thingit changes the sugar into alcohol and carbon dioxide. The carbon dioxide fills the dough with gas, making it rise. The al...
Do you have trouble with math? Are the re treatments or therapies that can help you get better at mathematics? Good question. And the answer is, yes. Or, at least, there may be. First, though, understand that youre not alone. Researchers estimate tha...
Bread and wine make fine companions in a picnic basket, but the two have more than that in common. To make either one, the baker or the vintner has to enlist the help of yeast. Yeast isnt an important ingredient in the final product, but its the biol...
The point is that the enhanced cognitive control that may accrue from speaking more than one language could help people better cope with the onset of dementia. Other studies looking at memory clinic patients diagnosed with dementia showed that multil...
After receiving the current, the volunteers were taught symbols representing numbers, and then tested on how quickly they could solve problems using the symbols. In the end, the volunteers getting the electrical stimulation performed better than the...
Before iodized salt became available, people living near seacoasts got adequate iodine because seawater and coastal soil contain iodine compounds. On the other hand, people living inland or in mountainous country tended to have iodine-deficient diets...
Pure, ordinary salt is simple. The scientific name for it is sodium chloride. But the label on a salt box shows that table salt usually contains more than just sodium chloride. Table salt often comes in iodized form which means it includes a small am...
At night when the res no food in your stomach, the protease is deactivated so it stops working. Unfortunately, disease, alcohol, and some drugs can override the enzyme that is supposed to be controlling the protease. When that happens, the protease b...
The human body is capable of digesting a very wide range of foods, including sugars, fats, and proteins. But the trick to such a varied diet is in the bodys ability to stop digesting when the foods all gone so that it doesnt start in on itself. One o...
Sure, you think the world is full of solid objects. You think the radio youre listening to is solid. You think the floor youre standing on or the chair youre sitting in is solid. Heck, you probably think that you yourself are a solid object. Wrong. O...
