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Increasing long-term exercise reduces the amount of calories we burn according to new research
A new collaborative study which included researchers from the University of Aberdeen has found that a long-term increase in exercise leads to a 28% reduction in calories burned by the body during basic activities like sleeping.
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Metabolism changes with age, just not when you think it does
Researchers have measured life's metabolic highs and lows from birth to old age, and have discovered the rate at which we burn calories actually peaks much earlier, and starts to decline much later, than previously thought.
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Surviving winter on the roof of the world
Scientists from the University of Aberdeen School of Biological Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have completed a 13-year long investigation into the survival strategies of an enigmatic small mammal, the plateau pika, that lives on the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau in China.
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Aberdeen academic achieves trio of prestigious fellowships
Congratulations to Professor John Speakman from the School of Biological Sciences who was elected to the National Academy of Sciences of the USA this week. Following his election to the Chinese National Academy in 2019 and the Royal Society in 2018, Professor Speakman becomes one of only 28 scientists in...
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Prestigious honour for Aberdeen academic
A University of Aberdeen academic has received the highest honour that can be bestowed upon a scientist by China. Professor John Speakman has been elected a foreign Academician in the Chinese National Academy of Sciences – the first ever from a Scottish University to be elected. Election to the Chinese Academy of...
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Sugary drinks but NOT sugary food, linked to weight gain in mice
New research has found that consumption of sugary drinks, but not sugary food leads to weight gain in mice.
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New study finds that fat consumption is the only cause of weight gain
Scientists from the University of Aberdeen and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have undertaken the largest study of its kind looking at what components of diet - fat, carbohydrates or protein - caused mice to gain weight.
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Professor John Speakman becomes Fellow of the Royal Society
A University of Aberdeen professor who is the world's leading expert in animal energy expenditure has been elected to The Royal Society - one of the 50 most eminent scientists from across the UK and Commonwealth recognised with the honour in 2018.
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High densities of fast food restaurants are not associated with high levels of obesity
New research from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and University of Aberdeen published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition suggests that higher densities of fast food (and full service) restaurants are NOT associated with higher levels of obesity in the USA.
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'Evolutionary fitness' key in determining why some females more physically attractive than others
Scientists from the University of Aberdeen have been working as part of an international collaboration co-ordinated by the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing to try and discover why there is a link between body fatness and perceived physical attractiveness.