Fat ‘disrupts sugar sensors causing type 2 diabetes’
US researchers say they have identified how a
high-fat diet can trigger type 2 diabetes, in experiments on mice
and human tissue. Writing in the journal Nature Medicine, they say
that fat interferes with the body’s sugar sensors.
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Coffee suncream could slow skin cancer
Applying caffeine to the skin in sunny weather
may protect against a type of skin cancer, US researchers hope.
Experiments on mice, reported in the Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences, suggest that caffeine prevents UV damage.
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German boy, 11, calls police over housework
A boy of 11 called a German police emergency
line to complain of “forced labour” after his mother told him to
help clean the home. Police say the boy from Aachen, who has not
been identified, spoke to an officer via the 110 number.
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