The discovery could spell trouble for rotavirus vaccines in development which could trigger diabetes. Researchers in Maryland found that cinnamon makes fat cells more responsive to insulin.
Clinical trials are due to begin in people within a year.
Air France and British Airways are only halfway through a program to eliminate these risks-some of which could lead to uncontrolled fire or engine failure. The shoe's designers from Canada hope that one day they can be adapted to make walking less physically tiring for the elderly. The emergence of conscious thought has been witnessed for the first time by monitoring brain activity. Canadian researchers have recorded the difference between the number of neurons firing in the brain in an unconscious response, and the number firing in a conscious one. The mysterious death of 95 per cent of the lobster population off the coast of New York could be a result of pesticides being sprayed in the surrounding area in an attempt to prevent another outbreak of West Nile virus.