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Lose Weight by Altering Your Eating Schedule

January 9, 2017 SrijitaAltering, by, Eating, lose, Schedule, Weight, Your

Weight loss becomes easier if your daily diet is in place. Experts suggest that even minor tweaks in your daily intake – like taking the last meal of the day by the mid-afternoon – can help burn fat and lose weight. According to a latest study – that tested early time-restricted feeding (eTRF) on humans – this meal-timing strategy reduced swings in hunger and altered fat and carbohydrate burning patterns, which may help with losing weight. With eTRF, people eat their last meal by the mid-afternoon and do not eat…

Altering ‘Flavour’ of Humans Can Tackle Malaria

October 13, 2016 SrijitaAltering, Can, Flavour, humans, malaria, of, Tackle

A specialised area of the mosquito brain mixes tastes with smells to create unique flavours, scientists have revealed, suggesting the development of a powerful odourant that can make “human flavour” repulsive to malaria-bearing species. Instead of feasting on us, the mosquitoes can then keep the disease to themselves, potentially saving an estimated 450,000 lives a year worldwide, said the team from Johns Hopkins University. “All mosquitoes, including the one that transmits malaria, use their sense of smell to find a host for a blood meal. Our goal is to let…