– Fast food is cheap and convenient. But hidden in between the burgers and tacos are some “healthy” options: salads, grilled chicken, yogurts, oatmeal, power burritos. Doesn’t sound too bad, right? I spent a week eating nothing but these “healthy” fast foods and I lost six-and-a-half pounds. But even though I lost about a pound […]
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Translator: Katrin R. Reviewer: Rosa Rey As I was introduced, my topic is about nutrition. A big, big topic, a word, a concept, an idea that we’ve all spoken about from time to time. But in reality, it seems to me that we haven’t been able to find very much consensus about what that word […]
If you time-warped a few Pilgrims to your Thanksgiving table, they’d probably accuse you of being a witch. [YELLING] But they’d recognize a lot of the food, just bigger, better, and tastier versions of what they ate. Many traditional Thanksgiving foods are scienced up versions of native New World species. What may surprise you is […]
The coming together of proteins to form molecular machines is essential to life. But these protein complexes are often quite weakly bound Today’s molecular machine, well…actually it’s more of a spanner in the works. The beta amyloid protein can form a complex with itself, and so it stacks together and forms a very strong interaction. […]
schizophrenia is a poorly understood group of brain disorders that affects about 100 people, men and women equally, and our group at QBI, Queensland Brain Institute, are trying to find the causes of schizophrenia. We know that there are genetic factors, and we know there are factors that impact on early brain development like nutrition […]
>>I’m Dr. Kevin Hall. I’m at the National Institute of Diabetes Digestive and Kidney Disease, here in the National Institutes of Health. And my research is primarily regarding how does the body adapt to different diets, and in particular the macronutrients of the diet; that is the carbohydrate, the fat and the protein. What happens […]
SciShow is supported by Skillshare. [♩INTRO] In the food world, salt is kind of a superhero. Without it, french fries are bland, potato chips are boring, and chocolate chip cookies lose their pop. And that’s because salt doesn’t just make things salty—it has lots of effects on flavor perception. In fact, if you’re thinking about […]
(gentle piano music) – The key finding of our study is the identification of a new mechanism, by which a type of cancer called B-cell lymphoma can happen. We have been stundying a specific type of lymphoma called MALT lymphoma. And in the sub-set of MALT lymphomas, the cancer cells actually possess a, what’s called […]
Why does Bill Gates have so much money? Because he earned more money than he spent Why did Basketball Team X win the big game? They scored more points than Team Y. “Goddamnit Pete, why are you fat?” The typical answer is that more calories went in than out of Pete’s body. The responses to […]
We’re all told to eat healthy, and be aware of our calorie intake through the day. But have you ever stopped to see what does calories look like? For example, this is 200 calories worth of apple On the other hand, if we take 200 calories worth of cheese, it doesn’t look quite the same […]