Starch is a vital component of the human diet, serving as a primary energy source. However, high-glycemic starches are linked ...

Explore how starchy foods and agriculture shaped the human genome, driving evolutionary changes in starch digestion.

Over the past 12,000 years, humans in Europe have dramatically increased their ability to digest carbohydrates, expanding the ...

Our bodies absolutely need carbohydrates for energy. It’s a matter of survival. So much so, that some human populations have ...

Symptoms for patients with the gastrointestinal disease IBS improved as much by eating less sugar and starch as for those who followed FODMAP -- the diet currently recommended to patients. The results ...

Bodil Ohlsson is a professor at Lund University and consultant at Skåne University Hospital. Her choice to investigate the role of sugars and starches in IBS is linked to a geneticist's discovery: a ...

A fresh loaf of sourdough / Photo courtesy of Melissa GriffithsWhen Rhonda Flatberg died in 2018, her best friend passed ...

Some treatments and procedures become routine despite lacking strong evidence to show that they’re beneficial. Recent studies ...

Dave Eggers is the author of “The Circle,” “What Is the What” and, most recently, “The Eyes and the Impossible,” winner of ...

To date, about 90% of fish resources worldwide have already reached their sustainable fishery limit. Meanwhile, intensive ...

Increasingly, doctors and scientists are recognizing that rather than dismissing placebos as mere trickery, they may be able ...

Scientists have suspected that modern humans have more genes to digest starch than our hunter-gatherer ancestors, but the amylase locus of the genome is hard to study. Researchers have now developed ...