LiveScience Topics: Diet

More Diet News and Information

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  Lizards Bask in Sun for Vitamins

  Lizards look like they're tanning, but they're really soaking in the Vitamin D.

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  Key to Affordable Health Care Revealed

  A breakthrough therapy lowers the risk of developing the most common and deadly chronic diseases.

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  How a Desert Rat Feasts on Poisonous Plants

  Genes help rats survive on a toxic diet.

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  Getting Fat? Blame the Recession

  Science has confirmed what we suspected — financial stress has a way of turning into body fat.

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  5 Myths About the Male Body

  From rumors about feet size to sex life, here are five assumptions about men\'s bodies that are totally false.

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  Pot-Bellied Dinosaur Skeleton Found in Utah

  Remains of a pot-bellied dinosaur shed light on evolution of paleo veggie diets.

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  Even Cockroaches Get Fat on Bad Food

  Cockroaches who eat an unhealthy diet become fat and mature late.

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  Study Hints at What and How Dinosaurs Ate

  Tiny scratches on fossilized dinosaur teeth suggest the animal ate low-lying grasses.

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  Nut-Cracking Dinosaur Like a Giant Parrot

  Parrot-beaked dinosaur devoured nuts and seeds.

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  American Diets Getting Worse

  Even fewer Americans in their middle and later years adhere to this healthy lifestyle advice than they did two decades ago.

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  Obesity Paradox: When Fat Only Seems Healthy

  Obese patients with heart disease do better and live longer. But there's a catch.

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  Brain's Willpower Spot Found

  Scientists may have discovered the seat of willpower and self-restraint in the brain.

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  FDA: Cut the Hydroxycut

  Add Hydroxycut to the "too good to be true" files.

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  Epigenetics: A Revolutionary Look at How Humans Work

  Scientists are pinpointing how life experiences — from toxin exposure to receiving affection — can alter genome expression.

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  Red Pandas Have a Sweet Tooth

  Red pandas found to have taste for aspartame, could lead to better understanding of sweet receptors.

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  Chewing Gum Touted as Diet Strategy

  One type of sugar-free gum might reduce calorie intake in some people.

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  The Chemistry of Life: The Human Body

  The body is full of elements. But just which are essential and which are not is still not completely sorted out.

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  Mom's Diet Can Change Unborn Baby's Genetics

  If a mother rat does not eat well, her offspring exhibit genetic changes that affect what they'll become.

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  Diet Tip: Watch What You Drink

  Liquid calories are the bigger culprit than food itself, when it comes to weight loss.

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  Calories Count, Diets Fail

  Health meets physics in a real good study.

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  FDA Issues Serious Reality Check on Diet Pills

  FDA finds several dozen products sold as weight-loss supplements contain potentially harmful drugs.