Here's a few things that caught my eye-
Difficult to break the soda habit? Sugar-sweetened beverages suppress body's stress response
Drinking sugar-sweetened beverages can suppress the hormone cortisol and stress responses in the brain, but diet beverages sweetened with aspartame do not have the same effect, according to a new study.People less focused on recurrent bad feelings when taking probiotics
'Plaque Bank' launches a new model for noninvasive disease prediction, treatment
Scraped from the gums, teeth and tongue in the form of plaque, the researchers behind Canada's first plaque bank are betting that the bacterial content of plaque will open up a new frontier of medicine. By collecting and analyzing plaque samples gathered from the fecund bacterial environment of the mouth, researchers at the newly formed Oral Microbiome and Metagenomics Research Lab (OMMR) at the Faculty of Dentistry argue that plaque can be used can be used to predict, identify and even treat disease.
There's a couple good new scientific articles too...
Sex differences in feeding behavior in rats: the relationship with neuronal activation in the hypothalamus.
Apparently fasting increases orexin activity in female but not male rats.
Orexin receptor 1 signaling contributes to ethanol binge-like drinking: Pharmacological and molecular evidence
This one shows that unlike sugar, ingesting alcohol does not lower orexin levels.
Yeah, that explains a whole lot of things now doesn't it...
