Feeding the Clock
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 - 21:28
in Biology & Nature
When you eat may be just as vital to your health as what you eat, found researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Their experiments in mice revealed that the daily waxing and waning of thousands of genes in the liver--the body's metabolic clearinghouse--is mostly controlled by food intake and not by the body's circadian clock as conventional wisdom had it.