IT sounds like something from the pages of a Dickens novel. But there are worrying signs that scurvy is rearing its head once more. With the cost-of-living crisis, more families than ever are ...

Two new studies found that ancient human ancestors carried a surprising diversity of genes for amylase, an enzyme that breaks ...

OUR love of chips, bread and cakes holds millions of us back from a slim waist and perfect health – and it dates back ...

Our craving for bread, pasta, and potatoes may be more than just a cultural preference – it could be encoded in our DNA.

Ancient DNA might be the reason for your love of carbohydrates such as bread and chips, research suggests. Humans may have ...

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New evidence shows how we evolved to crave and digest carbohydrates and how this helped spur today’s carbohydrate consumption ...

suggesting that people already had adapted to eating starchy foods long before they began growing foods like wheat and potatoes. AMY1 gene duplications also were found in ancient human ancestors ...

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Researchers have found that the gene for starch-digesting saliva may have first duplicated more than 800,000 years ago.