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Here's how it works. When you eat, your body breaks down the food into a stream of nutrients, including glucose (sugar), lipids (fats), and amino acids (the building blocks of protein). If your meal happens to be junk food - say, a processed bun with a cheap beef patty, French fries and a Coke - the rush of sugar causes something called "post-prandial hyperglycemia": a big spike in blood-sugar levels. Poor diet in the long-term leads to hypertension and buildup of gunk in blood vessels that increases heart-attack risk. But there are short-term effects too. "People...
Against all odds, my science Core requirement, Science B-47, “Molecules of Life,” is my favorite class this semester. I swore off amino acids and lipids in high school after a nightmarish AP Chemistry experience, but I had one core class left so I picked the one with the best CUE rating and thought I would sit through it quietly...
...which translates into about 350 cases of wine). Sauvignon Blanc vines would yield three times as much. Add to that the risk that the fruit will be unstable during the fermenting process (although we'll forgo the science lesson on the effect of Pinot's native yeasts and 18 amino acids...
...rich as that question has been for scientists, at least one fact is not in dispute. While a graduate student at the University of Chicago, Stanley Miller masterminded the most famous experiment in the field. By fashioning a semblance of a young earth, oceans and all, Miller discovered that amino acids--key building blocks of life--could be generated from the chemicals presumed to have been present on the earliest earth. The experiment, results of which were published in 1953, helped launch the scientific study of the origin of life...
...part by causing blood to clot abnormally. A small emergency-room study found that drugs used to break up clots may help revive cardiac-arrest patients when such methods as CPR and electrical shock have failed. There were murkier findings regarding people with high levels of homocysteine, an amino acid linked to heart disease. Folic acid and B vitamins help bring homocysteine down, but one study cast doubt on whether this actually improves heart health...