But "Thinner This Year" provides some fresh insights on how the body processes food and burns calories.
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Unfortunately, the FDA also had questions about a patient death and the way the body processes the drug.
Alpha, discovered in 1990, is involved in controlling how the body processes fat.
He began reading everything he could about weight loss, how the body processes food and exercise regimens for Olympic athletes.
In general, the idea is to consume only the amount of phenylalanine that's necessary for normal growth and body processes, but no more.
Though Acomplia was initially designed as a weight-loss drug, Sanofi researchers had found by 2001 that the affected receptors play a role in how the body processes fat.
Regrettably, although much is known about the chemistry of how the body processes alcohol - and how that can have effects on everything from our digestion to our immune systems - the scientific literature is mute on a cure.
Many of the body's processes are governed by circadian rhythms which repeat in 24-hour cycles.
Something interesting emerged in the results: "The network that normally processes your body movements is more active when you view an android, " compared with when you look at a stripped-down robot or a human, Saygin explains.
Damage that occurs at the cellular or molecular level can disrupt the body's natural control processes and allow an uncontrolled growth of cells, or cancer.
Prof John Beattie, head of the micronutrients group at the University of Aberdeen, said NF-kB cropped up in many processes in the body, including atherosclerosis, which leads to blocked arteries seen in heart disease and has been linked to zinc deficiency.
How deeply does this affect other physiological processes occuring in the body?
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With hopes of getting more people up and moving, scientists are looking at the body's biological and chemical processes for clues to understanding what's behind differing attitudes toward exercise.
Beachrock: ledges of rock formed within the body of the beach consisting of sand grains cemented by calcium carbonate and formed by chemical processes.
Gene Block, a professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at University of California, Los Angeles, and colleagues found that by middle age, the signal the master body clock in the brain sends out to other internal clocks to help resynchronize the different processes gets weaker.
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