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Friendly gut bugs could fight diabetes Last Updated: 12:01am BST 26/05/2008 A new study suggests that microbes in the gut could help fight diabetes. Roger Highfield reports. Probiotic drinks containing certain kinds of "friendly bacteria" could help prevent adult diabetes according to a new study. Now a new insight into the disease has come from scientists focusing on the microbes in the gut, which outnumber the cells in the body and play a crucial role in extracting calories, vitamins and nutrients from food. Consuming excess calories usually spurs what scientists call insulin resistance, when cells in the body that normally...

Go With Your Gut -- Intuition Is More Than Just A Hunch, Says New Research ScienceDaily (Mar. 6, 2008) — Most of us experience ‘gut feelings’ we can’t explain, such as instantly loving – or hating – a new property when we’re househunting or the snap judgements we make on meeting new people. Now researchers at Leeds say these feelings – or intuitions – are real and we should take our hunches seriously. According to a team led by Professor Gerard Hodgkinson of the Centre for Organisational Strategy, Learning and Change at Leeds University Business School, intuition is the result...

Source: Mount Sinai School of Medicine Date: August 21, 2007 Your Gut Has Taste Receptors Science Daily — Researchers in the Department of Neuroscience at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have identified taste receptors in the human intestines. Scientists have previously shown that the absorption of dietary sugars in the intestine is mediated by a protein – a sugar transporter – that varies in response to the sugar content of foods. The intestine uses a glucose sensing system to monitor these variations, but until now the nature of this system was unknown. The taste receptor T1R3 and the taste G...

During the evening hours of Jan. 7, the team hit the road from Camp Taji for a convoy that would take them about 200 miles in the southeast direction. By Spc. Dustin Perry 1/34th Battalion Combat Team Public Affairs CAMP ADDER, Iraq, Jan. 31, 2007 — Thirty seconds. Within a short sliver of time, a dozen U.S. soldiers, conducting a routine convoy operation, endured an engagement with the enemy under the Baghdad twilight, quickly and safely quashed the threat with a textbook reaction, and came away with a war story they will be able to take home and tell to...

Many people worry about putting on a few pounds during the holiday season. But when you reach for a Christmas cookie, keep in mind that you're not the only one who's going to enjoy that tasty treat: It will also get eaten by the bacteria living in your gut. And it turns out that the kind of bacteria living there may affect how much weight you gain. Until a couple of years ago, scientists didn't have the tools to figure out exactly what lives in a person's digestive tract. But with new genetic probes, they can do a kind of...

When your gut instinct rules (Filed: 03/01/2006) Logic is the loser in uncertain situations, says Roger Highfield Investing money, changing jobs, getting married: all big decisions that can mark a leap into the unknown. Now, a new brain-imaging study finds that the higher the level of uncertainty, the more likely it is that emotion and gut insinct, not logic, will rule. This insight into what goes on in the brain when decisions are made in the face of missing information sheds light on how people save for retirement, how companies price insurance and how countries evaluate risks, ranging from climate...

I ask each of you just to look into your hearts, look into your guts. Gut-check time.

CONTEMPLATING KERRY'S "GUT"   Sunday, August 22, 2004 ELECTION 2004Ed Koch: I'm voting for BushNew York Democrat: Kerry doesn't have stomach to go after terrorists Posted: August 22, 2004 7:02 p.m. Eastern   By Aaron Klein © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com   Former New York City Mayor Edward Koch, a Democrat, will for the first time in his life vote for a Republican presidential candidate this year because he feels Kerry "doesn't have the stomach" to fight terrorism, Koch told WorldNetDaily. "While I don't agree with Bush on a single domestic issue, they are all trumped by the issue of terrorism, where he has...

Kerry, NOT Bush, paralyzed by 9/11 attacksHear Kerry admit he could not thinkWHY JOHN KERRY IS DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA by Mia T, 8.07.04   (viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE) johnkerryisdangerousforamerica.blogspot.com ATLANTA - Thursday Senator John Kerry criticized President Bush for his immediate reaction to the 9/11 attacks on America soon after Michael Moore's use of the footage in Fahrenheit 911. Addressing minority journalists in DC, Mr. Kerry said he would have moved into action much faster than the President on that morning. Kerry said, "Had I been reading to children and had my top aide whispered...

Kerry, NOT Bush, paralyzed by 9/11 attacksHear Kerry admit he could not thinkWHY JOHN KERRY IS DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA by Mia T, 8.07.04   (viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE) johnkerryisdangerousforamerica.blogspot.com ATLANTA - Thursday Senator John Kerry criticized President Bush for his immediate reaction to the 9/11 attacks on America soon after Michael Moore's use of the footage in Fahrenheit 911. Addressing minority journalists in DC, Mr. Kerry said he would have moved into action much faster than the President on that morning. Kerry said, "Had I been reading to children and had my top aide whispered...

PAT ROBERTSON ISSUES CORRECTION TO STATE DEPARTMENT ON TODAY’S EDITION OF “THE 700 CLUB”.VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., October 13, 2003-- PAT ROBERTSON: A couple of weeks ago I had guest on with me named Joel Mowbray. He’d written a book called Dangerous Diplomacy. It was so scathing about the State Department that I characterized it in rather graphic terms, and I want to issue a correction to the State Department. I mentioned the question of nuking the State Department. Mr. Mowbray did not use the term “nuke,” he said it should be gutted, and I think we ought to make that...

(2003-04-24) -- In the wake of the Dixie Chicks attempt to blunt criticism by appearing mostly naked on a magazine cover, Academy Award-winning documentarist Michael Moore has agreed to appear shirtless on the cover of an unnamed periodical. "There's nothing like a little skin to change the tone of the debate," said Mr. Moore. "Since I have more skin than most folks, it should really alter the mood of the discourse." Among liberal political strategists, nudity is considered a highly-effective tactic. It's credited with almost single-handedly changing the image of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals from 'a...

Beer-Belly Gene Found Gene Type Linked to Fat Abs in Men By Daniel DeNoon Reviewed By Charlotte Grayson, MD on Monday, January 06, 2003 WebMD Medical News Jan. 6, 2003 -- It's the end of the season for too much TV football, too much food, and, well, too much. But now some men can put the blame for their beer guts on something else -- their parents. Men who inherit a certain gene from both parents have a higher risk of abdominal fat, an Italian study finds. "Overweight and abdominal [fat] were more common in men with the [certain gene...

GM crop DNA found in human gut bugs 12:10 18 July 02 NewScientist.com news service For the first time, it has been proved that bacteria in the human gut can take up DNA from genetically modified food. However, the UK's Food Standards Agency, which commissioned the research, says that the overall findings are reassuring rather than alarming because the amount taken up was barely detectable and only occurred in special circumstances. Nonetheless, opponents of GM foods say the results vindicate their warnings that this might happen, and that the risk of gut bacteria scavenging antibiotic resistance genes from GM food...