Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) affects a large portion of the general population. New research coordinated by Karolinska Institutet now shows a link between defective sucrase-isomaltase gene variants ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Mutations in the gene encoding the enzyme sucrase-isomaltase, responsible for the digestion of small ...

Trying to reduce your carbohydrate intake means going against nearly a million years of evolution. Humans are among a few species with multiple copies of certain genes that help us break down starch — ...

Eating carbs makes you fat and sick. Case closed. Or at least that's what the most popular diets of the past few decades have told us. But the reality is a little more complicated. Enter the so-called ...

FOR an accurate system of dieting it is essential to know the content of different foodstuffs in digestible protein, fat, and carbohydrate: analyses by different authors differ somewhat in the case of ...