Fatty foods can impair the body’s response to everyday stress – study
Different findings from a study, published recently in Frontiers in Nutrition and Nutrients, have shown that consuming foods high in fat before a mentally stressful episode can reduce brain oxygenation and cause poorer vascular function in adults.
Grains overlooked as source of sustainable protein
Cereal foods already play a major role in the diet in most countries world-wide, as the main dietary source of energy, carbohydrate, dietary fibre, and plant-based protein.
Western projects receive new Canada Brain Research Fund grants
A research project on fast-tracking drug development for neurodegenerative diseases and another on technology to study the brain at the patient’s bedside are two Western projects among four across Canada awarded grants through the Canada Brain Research Fund (CBRF)...
Predicting outcomes of pregnancies with foetal growth problems
New methods to predict outcomes for pregnancies where there are issues with poor growth of the baby inside the womb have been developed by a team of scientists.
Canterbury earthquake resources find a permanent home
Lessons learned from the Canterbury earthquakes will be shared widely and preserved for the future when a collection of reports and information...
E-Fuels can replace fossil fuels
The aircraft, ships, and lorries of the future must be powered by e-fuels—fuels produced partly from captured CO2—and partly from hydrogen produced by the splitting of water.
Wine consumptton Patterns Relatively Stable Under COVID
Wine consumers have reported that their consumption hasn’t changed much despite the stresses of lockdown. The results from a survey by a team of experts led by the University of Adelaide...
Light physical activity shows great promise in reversing childhood obesity caused by being sedentary
Increased sedentary time from childhood through young adulthood caused increased body fat and abdominal fat in a new follow-up study. However, the results also showed that light physical activity (LPA) may completely reverse the adverse process.
University Technology Colleges failing younger students
Young people who join a University Technical College (UTC) at the age of 14 do far worse on average in their GCSEs than similar teenagers at other schools...
Academic conference on Sino-EU relations held at University of Macau
The Jean Monnet Chair (JMC) Academic Conference: ‘European Union-China Relations from the Perspective of Global Governance’...
