Everyone loves a counterintuitive scientific paper, unless they don’t like it. Here’s a new counterintuitive scientific paper: “Artificial sweeteners produce the counterintuitive effect of inducing metabolic derangements,” Susan E. Swithers [pictured here], Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism, epub 2013. The author, at Purdue University, explains: “The negative impact of consuming sugar-sweetened beverages on weight and other […]
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Slow Bite™ — Bite Slow and Fight Obesity (new patent)
“Overweight [sic] and obesity are some of the most common health and social problems. Millions of people suffer from overweight [sic], which is considered to be a main cause for diseases and early death. “ So what’s to be done? The quote above comes from a new US patent (Feb. 19th 2013) which offers a […]
A fat lot of fine literary wording about a seminar
A faculty member at the University of Bristol alerts us to the multiple singular literary merits of this announcement of a coming event: Obesity surgery and the management of excess: exploring the body multiple 25 April 2013, 4 pm — Canynge Hall, Room LG.08 Speaker: Professor Karen Throsby – Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of […]
Dodos – were they fat, or not?
A lively debate has recently taken flight within the pages of the prestigious natural sciences journal Naturwissenschaften. It all centres around the question of whether Raphus cucullatus, a.k.a. the (now extinct) Dodo might have been waddlingly plump or sprightly slim. Here are some example papers from either side of the debate : • The end […]