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A diet based on resistant starch promotes a favorable composition of the gut microbiome in obese people. This leads to weight reduction and measurable positive health outcomes such as improved insulin ...

Gokcumen speculated that people today who have fewer amylase genes may be more vulnerable to diseases like diabetes that are fueled by a starch-heavy modern diet. Down the line, the findings could ...

Is a plant based, vegan diet good for you? It can be for some and for others its a disaster. A lot depends on your metabolism ...

Researchers based at The Jackson Laboratory in Farmington ... favored by natural selection as humans adapted to the starch-rich diets resulting from the shift from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle ...

Decades before they would be lionized by the rise of glycobiology and demonized by the Atkins diet, carbohydrates ... using potato starch–based slabs 1 —a considerable step forward from ...

Cereals such as rice, wheat, maize, and barley are essential in the human diet and have ... "In this study, based on our screening for SG morphology, we isolated starch BE mutants in barley ...

Down the line, the findings could point to potential amylase-based treatments for these ... New York Times As people depended more on starch in their diet, he hypothesized, natural selection ...