Vitamin D discovery outpaces FDA decision making
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Research findings that extensive use of vitamin D as a food supplement provides only short-term advantage, while future generations are likely to suffer from an epidemic expansion of obesity and chronic diseases are presented. It is suggested that the role of vitamin D must be reexamined by the FDA and its recommendation to expand addition of Vitamin D to foods must be curtailed.
Publication Name: BioEssays
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 0265-9247
Year: 2008
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A walk from the wild side: The genetics of domestication of livestock and crops
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The major issues such as the genetic changes that were selected for during domestication and the information that genetics provides about the history of domestication, were discussed. The Genetics Society Autumn Meeting brought together many researchers on livestock and crop domestication and provided an exciting list of recent progress in the field.
Publication Name: BioEssays
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 0265-9247
Year: 2005
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Got milk? a pheromonal message for newborn rabbits
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This article discusses the feeding habits of rabbit pups, how they communicate their need and whom they go to. Research reveals 2-methylbut-2-enal is present in rabbit milk which acts like a pheromone. Data indicate that pups respond to pheromone odor from mothers across strains and breeds, but not from closely related species.
Publication Name: BioEssays
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 0265-9247
Year: 2004
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