Anorexia may be caused by bacterial infections
Scientists now suspect that anorexia nervosa, irritable bowel syndrome and chronic fatigue syndrome may all be connected with an imbalance in the bacteria in the gut. They speculate that the…
Scientists now suspect that anorexia nervosa, irritable bowel syndrome and chronic fatigue syndrome may all be connected with an imbalance in the bacteria in the gut. They speculate that the…
A team of 31 scientists and clinicians from institutions all over the world are suggesting that microbes, particularly the herpes virus and chlamydia bacteria, are major cause of dementia. They…
A study by Dr Nancy Zucker (Duke Centre for Eating Disorders), published in the journal Pediatrics, found that children with highly selective eating habits were more than twice as likely…
This research by Tim Spector, professor of genetic epidemiology at King’s College London, shows that eating junk food kills stomach bacteria which protect against obesity, diabetes, cancer, heart disease, inflammatory…
A large number of studies have shown that probiotics reduce the severity of hay fever. Scientists now suspect that a lack of beneficial bacteria in the gut can lead to…
This study of 22 healthy men found that those who took a probiotic containing Bifidobacterium longum 1714 performed better in a visual memory task. Previously the same team had found…
Common sugar alternatives, such as aspartame, sucralose and saccharin, have been shown in trials with mice and humans to raise blood sugar levels and trigger disease by altering the bacteria…
This study is the fourth in a series of studies which have been able to correlate brain activity with world-class performances in athletics, music and business management. It found that…
Dr James Meadow, University of Oregon found that it was possible to identify most of the occupants of a room just by sampling their unique ‘microbial cloud’ – the personalised…
People communicate positive emotions like happiness through the smell of their sweat suggest researchers led by Gün Semin at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. They showed that we produce chemical…
This study found a clear correlation between mothers’ stress levels in late pregnancy and how well coordinated their children were at ages 10, 14 and 17. Mothers who had to…
This research suggests that the lifestyles of men are written into their sperm and produce heritable traits that can be passed on to their children. Lean and obese men were…
Highly stressed people are more than twice as likely to develop mild cognitive impairment as their less stressed peers according to this study. The research studied the connection between chronic…
This study found that being bullied as a child has more damaging consequences than being the victim of abuse or neglect. These children were five times more likely to experience…
This study, led by Lucy Bowes from Oxford University, found that nearly one third of young adults who suffer depression were bullied frequently at school. The most common types of…
This study at the University of Helsinki suggests that the use of antibiotics in young children may alter the natural populations of gut microbes and leave them vulnerable to weight…
This study, led by Sergueï O. Fetissov, a professor from Rouen University in France, found that certain strains of gut bacteria, including a benign strain of E.Coli, were capable of…
This 5 year study of more than 3,300 American teenagers led by Lauren Asarnow of the University of California indicated that every extra hour that teenagers stayed up during the…
This study, led by Dr. Mari Hysing at the regional Centre for Child and Youth Mental Health and Child Welfare in Bergen, Norway, found that electronic devices of all kinds…
This study, run by the Harvard School of Public Health, indicated that children lose seven minutes of sleep for every hour of television they watch a day. They followed 18,000…