Can Regular-Fat Meat Products Actually Be Good for You?

CO2 can be good for you!

The role of exercise testing and gas-exchange measurement in the prognostic assessment of patients with heart failure. The study of the effects of noninvasive positive pressure ventilation to reduce chronic compensated CO 2 retention in COPD patients 1 ignores the possible adaptive advantage of " resetting " the Pco 2 to a higher level than normal. As experts in the mechanics of COPD have argue...

Work–Life Balance: Can You Actually Make That Happen?

Let me start off by saying – there is no such thing as “work–life balance” in a biomedical research career. In today’s modern society, the world is evolving at an unprecedented fast pace. The speed of progress in the biomedical research field is astonishing. The publications indexed by PubMed was ~9,000 during 2000 and increased to ~60,000 during 2013 (1). Unfortunately, the growth of federal a...

Curdlan Properties for Application in Fat Mimetics for Meat Products

been accomplished with any single ingredient except for synthetic fat. The most practical way to mimic fat is widely proposed to be by using a combination of materials, with food hydrocolloids as the main ingredient (Glicksman, 1991). Curdlan can be considered to have notable potential as a fat mimetic system by itself or in conjunction with other hydrocolloids. Our objective was to study the r...

Can trade be good for the environment?

We analyze the impact of trade in a differentiated good on environmental policy when there is local and transboundary pollution. In autarky, the (equivalent) pollution tax is set equal to the marginal damage from own emissions. If the strategic policy instrument is a tax, leakage occurs under trade and tends to lower the tax. The net terms of trade effect, due to the exportable and importable v...

Can Market Forces Be Used for Good?