Professor Will Waites, a professor of food microbiology at the University of Nottingham who speaks on behalf of Cropgen, a scientific body linked to the GM food industry, was critical.
Sir Henry had a wide and varied interest in health, the human body and artefacts linked to the famous.
Excessive body weight is linked to the development of heart disease and diabetes.
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The two murders were linked in 2010 after the body of Miss Halstead, who was a model and photographer from the US, was identified in 2008.
But through this new work they aimed to investigate whether known cross-cultural differences in body size preferences linked to stress were also mirrored in short-term stressful situations.
It was found that a reduced-calorie diet cut the activity of genes linked to stress responses in the body that cause inflammation and the release of free radicals.
There are helpful primers on the role of different fats, the importance of protein and how excess weight plays into harmful inflammation in the body, which is linked to heart disease and other chronic conditions.
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Dopamine effectively ferries messages around the brain, and is linked to the co-ordination of body movement.
Several other diseases have been linked to the gene but also to having a high body mass index.
Body piercing performed under nonsterile conditions has been linked to infections such as hepatitis B and C viruses as well as HIV.
Cashmore thinks the apparent rise in people getting tattoos is closely linked to the importance that modern society places on the body and personal grooming.
An increased risk of diabetes was also linked to drinking artificially sweetened soft drinks, but this disappeared when body mass index was taken into account.
Dr Mrazek told BBC News Online that it was possible that the stress associated with parental problems caused chemical changes in the body that had an effect on the function of genes thought to be linked to the development of asthma.
Past research has linked the graveyard shift to certain health issues, in part because it disrupts our circadian rhythm and shifts body chemistry.
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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.
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