Non-nutritive sweeteners – also known as sugar substitutes or artificial sweeteners – are supposed to deliver all the sweetness of sugar without the calories. But a controlled trial conducted by Weizmann Institute of Science researchers, published this week in Cell,...
Every day, millions of people take probiotics – preparations containing live bacteria that are meant to fortify their immune systems, prevent disease or repair the adverse effects of antibiotics. But do probiotics facilitate the recolonisation of gut bacteria? A new...
Following a successful diet, many people are dismayed to find their weight rebounding – an all-too-common phenomenon termed 'recurrent' or 'yo-yo' obesity. Worse still, the vast majority of recurrently obese individuals not only rebound to their pre-dieting weight but...