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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
You are what you eat -- and so are your offspring. And in the title bout featuring protein versus sugar, protein is the winner.
That's what a researcher at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) found while studying the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) as part of a multi-institutional team.
In a finding that may have application to human beings, the scientists discovered that a larval diet that's predominantly protein is better than a diet of sugar when it comes to the reproduction and development of the next generation of the small flies, which count humanlike metabolism among their many biological similarities.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/07/130708102748.htm
That's what a researcher at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) found while studying the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) as part of a multi-institutional team.
In a finding that may have application to human beings, the scientists discovered that a larval diet that's predominantly protein is better than a diet of sugar when it comes to the reproduction and development of the next generation of the small flies, which count humanlike metabolism among their many biological similarities.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/07/130708102748.htm