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Studies in animals suggest that brown seaweed, or wakame, which is commonly used to flavor Asian soups and salads, contains a compound called fucoxanthin that promotes weight loss. Scientists found that fucoxanthin also has anti-diabetes effects, promoting the synthesis of DHA-- an important fatty acid found in fish oil supplements-- in the liver. Prior studies have shown that fucoxanthin also helps promote the death of human prostate cancer cells in culture.

DEFINITION: (noun) A meal at midday; a luncheon. SYNONYMS: luncheon, dejeuner, lunch. USAGE: His impudence still rankled when I came into the dining room at tiffin time.

Pavlov was a Russian physiologist, psychologist, and physician. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1904 for his work on the physiology of the digestive glands. He experimented on nervous stimulation of gastric secretions and thus discovered the conditioned reflex, which has had widespread influence in neurology and psychology. How did he conduct these experiments, and what did they show?

Considered the greatest Abbasid Caliph, Harun al-Rashid was an educated scholar, lover of poetry, and patron of the arts who ruled Baghdad from 786-809. With a vast empire spanning SW Asia and the northern part of Africa, he was known around the world and had diplomatic relations with both China and Charlemagne's Frankish empire. Why did newspapers call future US President Theodore Roosevelt "Harun-al-Roosevelt" when he was a New York Police Department Commissioner?

Cocoa is the dried and partially fermented fatty seed of the cacao tree. The Aztecs revered the cacao and made a drink exclusively for the nobility from cocoa beans and chilies, which they called "chocolatl." In the US, cocoa often refers to cocoa powder, the dry powder made by grinding cocoa seeds and removing the cocoa butter from the dark, bitter cocoa solids. Today, about 3,000,000 tons of cocoa are grown each year and used in foodstuffs. What are some of the uses for cocoa butter?