Here are some of the interesting things I read this week.

Nutrition Related

The ISSN published a huge 93 page, 511 reference review on sports nutrition (PDF).

A new study suggests that food form and portion size affect satiety.

Commentary on the recent saturated fat meta-analysis, raising a number of questions and questioning some of the interpretations by the authors.

A New York Times article about paleo-nutrition enthusiast John Durant.

The Warburg effect (that a low carbohydrate diet may starve cancer cells) is finally being tested on humans.

Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation, is apparently done writing about food issues.

A trial is recruiting older participants for a large study on Vitamin D and omega-3 fatty acids, as pointed out by sweatscience.

Other

Active resting may strengthen memory of newly learned information.

Some people in vegatative states may have some level of awareness and be able to communicate via fMRI.

The Primordial Soup theory of how life started seems to be increasingly rejected by new findings, one theory being from chemiosmosis.

Mechanical forces, along with biochemical regulation, alters gene expressions.