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How excess holiday eating disturbs your 'food clock' Posted: 24 Dec 2012 08:33 AM PST If the sinful excess of holiday eating sends your system into butter-slathered, brandy-soaked overload, you are not alone: People who are jet-lagged, people who work graveyard shifts and plain-old late-night snackers know just how you feel. All these activities upset the body's "food clock," a collection of interacting genes and molecules known technically as the food-entrainable oscillator, which keeps the human body on a metabolic even keel. A new study is helping to reveal how this clock works on a molecular level.

Nearly one in three children with food allergies experience bullying, survey shows Posted: 24 Dec 2012 08:33 AM PST Nearly a third of children diagnosed with food allergies who participated in a recent study are bullied, according to researchers. Almost eight percent of children in the U.S. are allergic to foods such as peanuts, tree-nuts, milk, eggs, and shellfish.

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