Father's diet before conception affects offspring's body fat in mice ( The Endocrine Society ) When fathers eat a high-fat diet before conception of offspring, the male offspring have increased body weight after weaning and high body fat in midlife despite eating a low-fat diet, a new study in mice finds. The results were presented Sunday at The Endocrine Society's 95th Annual Meeting in San Francisco.
June 17, 2013 - EurekAlert!
Woman trying to ‘live on light’ instead of food ends experiment Naveena Shine, 65, is the Eastside woman who wanted to test out whether she could live just on sunshine and no food. She’s calling it quits Wednesday, on what would be Day No. 47, after dropping 20 percent of her body weight.
June 17, 2013 - Seattle Times