Humans
Lucky accidents of human evolution: Switch to starch
In 6 million years, our diet gradually changed from fruit and leaves to starchy grains. Genes involved in digestion offer a timeline to those dietary changes
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Health
Weight-loss surgery reduces desire for alcohol
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When you eat beats what you eat in staying healthy
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Fat busters: Are diet pills an impossible dream?
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Immune retune: Eat yourself strong
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Life
Immune retune: Befriend your bacteria
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Humans
Ash traces hint at cave cuisine 1 million years ago
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Health
Is ‘pink slime’ being unfairly demonised?
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Earth
Hybrid wheat is worth its salt on irrigated land
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Earth
Japan’s refusenik farmers tackle nuclear waste
The farmers in the evacuation zone around Fukushima who refused to leave are trying to reduce radiation levels
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Diet pill aims for US regulatory approval
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Earth
Wheat will age prematurely in a warmer world
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Physics
Salad-bar strategy: The battle of the buffet
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Health
Eight lazy ways to lose weight
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