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What is the energy balance of cooking?
If I cook some food, I get apparently several energetic advantages:
thermal : the temperature of the food is closer or superior to the temperature of my body or internal organs, so I do not have to ...
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What gaseous substances do humans emit?
Other than CO2 and Methane what other gases do humans produce or emit?
For example, does skin decomposition, or aerobic respiration emit any special gases that people don't normally realize or know ...
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Negative feedback in the fructose metabolism in liver
What happens in liver when large amount of fructose is consumed?
I vaguely remember my biochemistry lecturer telling us that the enzymes that process fructose in the liver does not have negative ...
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Why is coffee a laxative?
How does caffeine (or any additional agents) act as a laxative when ingested? I'm interested in the metabolic/signaling pathway.
