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Improving Health & Medicine
Here’s Why You’re Not a Bad Aunt if You Make their PB&J with White Bread
Savvy Auntie
Being a Savvy Auntie means being savvy about an extensive range of topics, including nutrition. After all, haven’t we all been responsible at some point for feeding our nieces and nephews? And while we occasionally look the other way when it comes to the ice cream, chocolates, and candy that kids love, we also want to ensure that our nieces and nephews develop healthy eating habits. However, being savvy about nutrition may not be as easy as we thought, as some of our traditional assumptions about food are now being challenged. You’re about to make a sandwich. Do your reach for the freshly stone-milled whole-grain wheat flour, sourdough leavening, superior ingredients baked in a stone-hearth oven to create a picture-perfect, super-healthy loaf of artisanal bread.? Or, white bread -- the industrial kind made from white flour.
June 14, 2017
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Improving Health & Medicine
Believe It or Not, White Bread Might Actually Be “Better” For Some of Us
Food & Wine
When it comes to bread, we’ve known for a long time now that it’s better to pick the brown, whole-grain-y stuff over ultra-processed white bread. Right? Well, maybe not, according to a new study published in Cell Metabolism and reported on by Science Daily. Apparently, we should be focusing less on the bread itself and more on who’s eating it. Here’s how the study went down: Researchers at the Weizmann Institute conducted a randomized trial with 20 healthy subjects in order to figure out how processed white bread and “artisanal whole wheat sourdough” might affect the human body in different ways. Half of the participants were asked to eat more white bread for one week than they normally did, and the other half was assigned to eat more whole wheat sourdough. Then, there was a controlled 2-week period with no bread, after which time the two groups swapped diets. The half that had originally consumed the white bread switched over to whole wheat, and vice versa.
June 09, 2017
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Improving Health & Medicine
Is Wheat or White Bread Healthier? Listen to Your Gut, Study Says
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
It’s the ultimate health-conscious grocer’s dilemma: Is wheat bread really healthier than white? While people have been told for years that wheat bread is hands-down the healthier choice, new research proves otherwise. A team of Israeli scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science conducted a small study in which 20 participants consumed either processed white bread or artisanal whole wheat sourdough. Prior to the study, the participants consumed the same amount of both white and non-white bread for several days. And during the study, the groups consumed at least 100 grams of bread (three to four slices) per day for one week before a two-week break when they switched bread types and repeated the weeklong consumption.
June 09, 2017
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Improving Health & Medicine
White Bread is Just as Healthy as Wholemeal, Claim Experts
Cosmopolitan
Most people would agree taste-wise, white bread is bae. The thing is, it's had a bad rap for a while health-wise, with many of us believing that wholemeal loaves are simply better for you... But are they? Well, according to new research, it turns out white might be alright after all. We hate to break it to you, but if you've been forcing yourself to eat wholemeal then it might have been a total waste of time. Scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science have discovered that opting for wholemeal over white bread made practically no difference to a person's health, the Evening Standard reports.
June 08, 2017
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Improving Health & Medicine
Maya Schuldiner Receives EMBO Gold Medal 2017
EMBO
Heidelberg, 8 June 2017 – Maya Schuldiner from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel is the recipient of the 2017 EMBO Gold Medal. She receives the award for significantly advancing the understanding of protein synthesis, trafficking and quality control. The EMBO Gold Medal is awarded annually and recognizes outstanding contributions to the life sciences in Europe by young independent group leaders.
June 08, 2017
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Exploring the Physical World
Evolution Not Only About Natural Selection but Also Improvisation, Says Israeli Scientist
Haaretz
Prof. Yoav Soen sounds almost angry when he talks about the evolutionary concept of natural selection – or, more precisely, its total acceptance – suggesting it blinds people to thinking more broadly. Instead, they simply embrace the theory of evolution developed more than 150 years ago by Charles Darwin. The blind allegiance to natural selection is a worldwide phenomenon, which is reflected in how research is conducted and scientific questions are explained, says the biomolecular scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot.
June 01, 2017
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Exploring the Physical World
Israeli Scientist Helps Discover “A Whole New Jupiter”
Israel21c
Less than a year into its planned three-year study of the planet Jupiter, NASA’s Juno research spacecraft already has revealed or confirmed facts that the Juno Science Team – including Yohai Kaspi of Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science – could only guess at previously. Less than a year into its planned three-year study of the planet Jupiter, NASA’s Juno research spacecraft already has revealed or confirmed facts that the Juno Science Team – including Yohai Kaspi of Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science – could only guess at previously.
May 28, 2017
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Improving Health & Medicine
Israel Start-Up Preparing for a Post-Antibiotics World
The Jerusalem Post
Israeli startup BiomX, which is developing a treatment that selectively kills specific bacteria, last week completed a $24 million financing round. The company was founded in 2015 on the basis of research by two Weizmann Institute scientists: Dr. Eran Elinav, a specialist in microbiome – the mix of bacteria in the human body (he is also known from DayTwo, which developed an app for nutritional consultation according to a person's individual composition of bacteria), and Professor Rotem Sorek, an expert in genetic engineering and bacterial genetics. The third founder is MIT Professor Timothy K. Lu, who specializes in genetic engineering of anti-bacterial viruses.
May 25, 2017
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Improving Health & Medicine
Aging Cells Are Key to Finding Fountain of Youth
The Jerusalem Post
Dr. Valery Krizhanovsky is a modern Juan Ponce de Leon, looking for a Fountain of Youth. The Weizmann Institute molecular biologist is not, however, seeking an anti-aging cure for wrinkles but a way to eliminate senescent cells in various organs of the body to delay or prevent age-related diseases. Born in the southeastern part of the Ukraine as an only child, Krizhanovsky studied at pharmacy school in the Russian city of Kursk. Fortunately for science, he never completed his studies there due to technical reasons. His father, an aeronautics engineer, and his mother, a dentist, accompanied him at the age of 20 to Israel to settle.
May 21, 2017