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New research shows how children want their food served

Getting children to eat their food is a challenge for many parents and new research could help. It turns out that children have different preferences for how food should be arranged on the plate to make them want to eat it, depending on gender and age. Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. David […]

Published on September 3, 2018

Age, race or need for instant gratification — which best predicts how much you will earn?

Traditional statistics have allowed researchers to understand which things — like education, occupation and gender — predict how much a person will earn. Now, in the first study of its kind, researchers have used machine learning to rank the importance of these factors, finding that a person’s ability to delay immediate gratification is among the […]

Published on September 3, 2018

Eating in 10-hour window can override disease-causing genetic defects, nurture health

Scientists found that mice lacking the biological clocks thought to be necessary for a healthy metabolism could still be protected against obesity and metabolic diseases by having their daily access to food restricted to a 10-hour window. Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. David Lowemann, M.Sc, Ph.D., is a co-founder of the Institute […]

Published on August 31, 2018