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THE ATWATER SYSTEM. "Caloric values are calculated by the Atwater System, a 100 year old method, that recent research shows can be inaccurate by up to 50%. It treats all foods as the same, which is not true." Like the RDU for vitamins, it needs updating. https://lnkd.in/erqrSbY View in LinkedIn

MARCH 3: "Serenus Biotherapeutics, Inc., a specialty biopharmaceutical company bridging the divide between the world's leading pharmaceutical markets and the growing demand for access to innovative therapies in the emerging nations of Africa, today announced it had secured investment of up to $43 million from Malin Corporation plc, an Ireland-based global life sciences company focused on healthcare." A historic Series A round. https://lnkd.in/e2Vi8Ce View in LinkedIn

JUST FOR EMPHASIS. "In a nutshell, "from a metabolic perspective, all calories are not alike," said study senior author Dr. David Ludwig, director of the New Balance Foundation Obesity Prevention Center at Children's Hospital Boston. "The quality of the calories going in affects the quantity of the calories going out." https://lnkd.in/eyiHknP View in LinkedIn

MEMBRANE SHAPES. "In the cell there is a great variety of membrane shapes" including: flat; cylindrical tubules of 30-100 nm diameter; spheres (endocytosis, exocytosis and cell trafficking) of 40-100 nm diameter; and saddle shapes if the Golgi. "These membranes undergo relentless shape transformations, and in many cases, drastic rearrangements of membrane structures, leading to their fusion and fission." " " View in LinkedIn

CALORY MYTH. "Among the dramatic changes to our food supply is the extensive use of sugar, primarily in the form of high fructose corn syrup, which is added to virtually all processed foods. And this is where the fallacy of "a calorie is a calorie" comes into play, because a calorie from fat does not impact your body in the same way a calorie from fructose does." https://lnkd.in/exrg2Cj View in LinkedIn

SCIENCE OF THE SMALL. "The ability of cell membranes to adopt a great variety of shapes is one of the most striking and intriguing properties of cells. Computer simulations indicate that the forces necessary for this shaping arise from the concerted efforts of many proteins integrated within the membrane, mediated by the 4.7-5.2 nm thick lipid bilayer that form the membrane matrix, and resists strong bending."" "" " View in LinkedIn

MORE BUNKUM. "One dogma that has contributed to the ever-worsening health of the Western world is the belief that "a calorie is a calorie." This is one of the first things dieticians learn in school. Unfortunately, this is completely FALSE... Another dogmatic belief that simply isn't true is the idea that obesity is the end result of eating too much and exercising too little." https://lnkd.in/exrg2Cj View in LinkedIn

DIFFERENT FORCES. "Although gravitational forces become less important on the micron length scale, intermolecular and surface forces are only significant over ranges of 0.2 nm (weak interatomic/molecular) to 100 nm (micron sized particles). This is because thermal motion of the molecules and particles has a tendency to disrupt these interactions on longer length scales." https://lnkd.in/exZCxMK View in LinkedIn

BUNKUM. "Diet myths abound in the health industry, but one of the biggest myths of all is the idea that a calorie is a calorie, no matter where you get it from, or what the chemical or nutritional makeup of it is." https://lnkd.in/exrg2Cj View in LinkedIn

"MANY ASPECTS of biological function and structure are governed by weak non-covalent bonds between and within single molecules. Mechanical force plays a key role in modulating the kinetics of these interactions, which in turn can regulate more complex biological processes." https://lnkd.in/eHMNJbv View in LinkedIn