Cheese might not make you fat

Cheese might not make you fat

    Here’s the perfect excuse to gorge on a grilled cheese sandwich at breakfast – researchers have found that cheese may not be as bad for cholesterol levels as other types of fat. Doctors and nutritionists have warned those on low-carbohydrate diets against eating animal fats for years. But a new study by Danish researchers says that cheese should not be placed in the same category as butter.
    According to the University of Copenhagen study, people who ate daily servings of cheese at six-week intervals had lower LDL cholesterol, the so-called bad cholesterol, than when they ate a comparable amount of butter. The cheese eaters also had the same level of LDL during the experiment as they did when they ate a normal diet. The group surveyed about 50 people and wrote about their findings in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
    Each person was put on a controlled diet and added a measured amount of cheese or butter daily. Throughout, each participant was compared against his or her self, to follow changes in the body caused by the foods. The researchers gave each person cheese or butter, both made from cows’ milk, equal to 13% of their daily energy consumption from fat.
    So, be it cheese toasts or pizzas, you can eat it all guiltfree. Yummy!

Squeezing out ketchup just got easier

Squeezing out ketchup just got easier

 Here’s some good news for women who often find it a herculean task to get the sauce out of ketchup bottles — researchers claim to have created a super-slippery material based on a carnivorous plant.
    And, the material has properties that allow it to repel both oil and water based liquids, meaning they slide off without leaving any residue, according to a team at Harvard University in US. The researchers behind the substance were inspired by Nepenthes pitcher plants, which has a highly slippery surface at the top of its fluteshaped leaves so that insects tumble down into the digestive juices contained inside.
    They found that the plant’s leaves have a sponge-like texture that are infused with water, which prevent the oils produced on insects’ feet from sticking. The researchers copied the plant by immobilizing a “lubricating film” inside the pores of a sponge-like layer of Teflon to produce a smooth and highly slippery surface. They hope it could not result in self-cleaning coating that can be put on anything from car windscreens, inside oil pipes and on aircraft wings to prevent icing.
    It could also be used to coat the inside of bottles and jars to allow every last drop of a condiment to be removed by hungry consumers.