Tag: choline

  • Nation & World

    CAGEs lock up fats to treat obesity

    Harvard researchers have found an orally administered liquid salt — choline and geranate — that can reduce the absorption of fats from food with no discernable side effects in rats, lowering total body weight by about 12 percent.

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    Portrait of a rat.
  • Nation & World

    Microbial menace

    A new study has shown that — under certain conditions — gut microbes can consume enough of a key nutrient to cause a deficiency in their hosts.

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    E. coli