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Medicine/Pharmacology - Agronomy/Food Science - 15.05
Body fat hardens arteries after middle age
Having too much body fat makes arteries become stiff after middle age, a new study has revealed. - In young people, blood vessels appear to be able to compensate for the effects of obesity. But after middle age, this adaptability is lost, and arteries become progressively stiffer as body fat rises – potentially increasing the risk of dying from cardiovascular disease.

Agronomy/Food Science - Medicine/Pharmacology - 13.05
Researchers develop smart phone app to help weight loss
Researchers at the University of Liverpool have developed a smart phone app that helps users lose weight by carefully recording their food consumption. - The app was developed in response to research from the University's Institute of Psychology, Health and Society , which showed that paying attention to what you eat while you eat it helps reduce food intake and prevents consuming excess calories at future meals.

Agronomy/Food Science - Medicine/Pharmacology - 15.04
Smartphone way to lose weight
Their study is the first to evaluate a smartphone app as the sole method for monitoring weight loss, with researchers creating My Meal Mate to trial against similar products for monitoring food intake, an online food diary and the traditional paper version.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Agronomy/Food Science - 4.04
Following lifestyle recommendations could reduce risk of death by a third
Landmark study backs advice from World Cancer Research Fund - People who follow seven diet and lifestyle recommendations have a 34 per cent reduced risk of dying from several diseases compared to people who don't follow the recommendations, a landmark study has shown.

Agronomy/Food Science - 28.03
Eating more fibre may lower risk of first-time stroke
People who eat a high fibre diet experience a lower risk of first-time stroke, according to new research from the University of Leeds. - Dietary fibre is the part of the plant that the body is unable to completely digest.

Agronomy/Food Science - Medicine/Pharmacology - 6.02
Obesity leads to vitamin D deficiency
Obesity can lead to a lack of vitamin D circulating in the body, according to a study led by the UCL Institute of Child Health (ICH). Efforts to tackle obesity should thus also help to reduce levels of vitamin D deficiency in the population, says the lead investigator of the study, Elina Hypponen.

Agronomy/Food Science - Environmental Sciences - 14.01
Growing evidence of global warming threat to future food supplies
Increasingly hot summer weather could cause a fall in crop yields over the next two decades unless farming techniques are improved more quickly, scientists at the University have found. - High temperatures are having an increasingly damaging effect on maize (sweetcorn) in France – the largest supplier of the crop to the UK – which may explain a recent slowdown in the trend towards higher yields, according to researchers at the Universities of Leeds, Reading and Exeter.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Agronomy/Food Science - 28.11.2012
Research indicates risks of consuming high fructose corn syrup
A new study indicates that large amounts of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), a sweetener found in national food supplies across the world, may be a contributory factor to the rising global epidemic of type 2 diabetes.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Agronomy/Food Science - 31.10.2012
Obese dogs at risk of same health condition experienced by humans
University Home - Obese dogs at risk of same health condition experienced by humans - - Veterinary scientists at the University of Liverpool have found that, like humans, obese dogs can experience metabolic syndrome, a condition that describes multiple health issues that occur in the body at the same time.

Medicine/Pharmacology - Agronomy/Food Science - 26.09.2012
Obese children already seeing effect on their health
Obesity in school-age children may be having a significant effect on the health of their hearts, an Oxford University study suggests. - The researchers show that obese children and adolescents have several risk factors for heart disease – including raised blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar levels, and a thickening of the heart muscle – compared with normal weight children.

Agronomy/Food Science - Administration/Government - 26.07.2012
Programme for jobless in India boosts agricultural wages by 5.3%
New research by the University of Oxford has found that the National Rural Employment Guarantee (NREG) programme has increased real agricultural wages rates by 5.3% across India since its introduction in 2006.

Agronomy/Food Science - Medicine/Pharmacology - 22.05.2012
Study suggests one-third of US homeless are obese
A new study dispels the myth that in general the homeless are starving and underweight. New research by Oxford University and Harvard Medical School has found that obesity is just as common among the homeless as it is among the general non-homeless population.

Environmental Sciences - Agronomy/Food Science - 14.05.2012
Wasted milk is a drain on resources
Milk poured down Britain's kitchen sinks each year creates a carbon footprint equivalent to that of thousands of cars, research shows. - University scientists say the 360,000 tonnes of milk wasted in the UK each year creates greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to 100,000 tonnes of CO2.

Agronomy/Food Science - 30.04.2012
Obesity affects job prospects for women, study finds
Obese women are more likely to be discriminated against when applying for jobs and receive lower starting salaries than their non-overweight colleagues, a new study has found. - The study, led by The University of Manchester and Monash University, Melbourne, and published in the International Journal of Obesity , examined whether a recently developed measure of anti-fat prejudice, the universal measure of bias (UMB), predicted actual obesity job discrimination.

Agronomy/Food Science - Architecture - 23.03.2012
From foraging to farming: the 10,000-year revolution
Excavation of 19,000-year-old hunter-gatherer remains, including a vast camp site, is fuelling a reinterpretation of the greatest fundamental shift in human civilisation - the origins of agriculture.