Apr. 1st, 2014

agoodwinsmith: (Little Seagull)
Not that this will influence the fat-shamers, but this is pretty darned exciting:
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_31-3-2014-9-58-51

I'm excited because this is like being lactose-intolerant (loss of milk-digesting enzyme in adulthood). Nobody tries to say to me that if I JUST TRIED HARDER I could digest milk IF I HAD ENOUGH WILLPOWER and REALLY WANTED TO and wasn't a SELF-INDULGENT LUMP.

It also means that now I know why controlled carb gives me the best results when I can stick to it (I challenge anyone, who wishes to try, to get an inexpensive restaurant meal without a whole bunch of cheap white starch making up most of it). Woo. :)

No, seriously: woo! :)
agoodwinsmith: (Little Seagull)
Determinants of the Diurnal Course of Salivary Alpha Amylase (2007):
http://p113367.typo3server.info/uploads/media/Nater_Kirschbaum_Determinants_of_the_diurnal_course_of_salivary_alpha_amylase.pdf

Effect of Fluoride on Human Salivary Amylase Activity (1995):
http://www.fluorideresearch.org/282/files/FJ1995_v28_n2_p071-074.pdf

Amylase and Human Evolution (2008):
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/12/11/amylase-and-human-evolution/

Hartnell Lab manual for enzyme experiments (no date listed):
http://www.hartnell.edu/faculty/kharris/bio10labmanual/labs/Enzymes.pdf

Davidson College assignment page [only certain mammals have salivary amylase] (2010):
http://www.bio.davidson.edu/Courses/Molbio/MolStudents/spring2010/Webb/a-amylase.htm

Original study for Amylase and Human Evolution (2007):
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2377015/



I shall add more as I find them.

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