The December Nutrition Society Paper of the Month is from Nutrition Research Reviews and is entitled ‘Food-derived serotonergic modulators: effects on mood and cognition’ Food is a primary requirement to live.…
In the chemical age of agriculture that began in the 1960s, potassium chloride (KCl), the common salt often referred to as potash, is widely used as a major fertilizer in the Corn Belt without regard to the huge soil reserves that were once recognized for their fundamental importance to soil fertility.…
New research from nutrition experts at the University of Sheffield has revealed that sandwiches, pizza and puddings are the most popular dishes with pupils.…
The November Nutrition Society Paper of the Month is from Public Health Nutrition and is entitled ‘Vegetable variety: an effective strategy to increase vegetable choice in children’ Do you remember the last time you were at a buffet and regretted not trying everything?…
Obese women voluntarily reduce what they eat in response to additional soft drinks being added to their diets – a new 4 week study finds1.…
Saeed A. Khan, Ph.D., ,Richard L Mulvaney, Ph.D. and Timothy R Ellsworth, Ph.D. have published a compelling and provocative article on “The potassium paradox: Implications for soil fertility, crop production and human health.”…
The animal Article of the Month for October is entitled ‘Precursors for liver gluconeogenesis in periparturient dairy cows’ Balancing diets for transition dairy cows is a challenge due to limitations in our ability to delineate basic responses and interactions between energy and protein during the periparturient period.…
The October Nutrition Society Paper of the Month is from Public Health Nutrition and is entitled ‘Food choice, plate wastes and nutrient intake of elementary- and middle-school students participating in the US National School Lunch Program’ Elementary and middle school students, eating school lunch, do not frequently select vegetables and waste considerably more fruits and vegetables than the entrée or milk, a new study, published in Public Health Nutrition, from Colorado State University (CSU) shows.…
The EU FP7 research project RobustMilk investigated ways of breeding cows that will produce healthy milk, e.g. packed with healthy fats, without drawing on the health of the dairy cows themselves.…
Researchers at the National Spinal Injuries Centre (NSIC) in Stoke Mandeville Hospital, a research partner of the Centre of Gastroenterology and Clinical Nutrition at University College London, have found that a daily commercial probiotic drink (containing Lactobacillus casei Shirota: Yakult Light) significantly reduces incidence of antibiotic-associated diarrhoea in spinal injury patients.…
Eating two kiwifruit a day can improve a person’s mood and give them extra energy, new research, published in Journal of Nutritional Science, from the University of Otago, Christchurch (UOC) shows.…
The September Nutrition Society Paper of the month is from Public Health Nutrition and is entitled ‘Current salt reduction policies across gradients of inequality-adjusted human development in the WHO European region: minding the gaps’.…
An optimal immune system is crucial to human health. After vaccination, nutrition is one of the major factors which modulates immune function.…
What we eat, or do not eat, may have an important impact on our cognitive ability and mental performance. Changes in brain functions can be long-term events difficult to demonstrate by traditional means.…
The August Nutrition Society Paper of the month is from British Journal of Nutrition and is entitled ‘Vitamin D in serum is influenced by diet and season in North Greenland: indicators of dermal 25OHD production north of the Arctic Circle’ No need to worry about vitamin D deficiency if you live in North Greenland.…
People who believe being overweight is caused by the food environment or genes – both seen as outside individual control – are more likely to support a wide range of government policies to tackle the obesity epidemic, new research shows.…
The July Nutrition Society Paper of the month is from British Journal of Nutrition and is entitled ‘Slow pace of dietary change in Scotland: 2001 –9’.…
The animal Article of the Month for July is entitled ‘Impact of dietary protein on microbiota composition and activity in the gastrointestinal tract of piglets in relation to gut health: a review’ The microbial ecosystem of the intestinal tract of pigs is influenced by various factors.…
Dr. Garth Youngberg and Suzanne DeMuth have made a fundamental contribution to the literature on organic and sustainable agriculture with the recently published first view article: ‘Organic Agriculture in the United States: A Thirty-Year Retrospective’.…
The June Nutrition Society Paper of the month is the Sir David Cuthbertson Medal Lecture published in Proceedings of the Nutrition Society and is entitled ‘ Mechanisms and effectiveness of prebiotics in modifying the gastrointestinal microbiota for the management of digestive disorders’ The gastrointestinal (GI) microbiota is a complex and metabolically active ecosystem that plays an important role in health and disease.…
The May Nutrition Society Paper of the month is from Nutrition Research Reviews and is entitled ‘An insight into the public acceptance of nutrigenomic-based personalised nutrition’.…
The April Nutrition Society Paper of the month is from Public Health Nutrition and is entitled ‘School food standards in the UK: implementation and evaluation’.…
Quality and size portions, rather than stigma, are the main reasons that pupils are not taking up their free school meals, according to new research by Leeds Metropolitan University, published this week in the journal Public Health Nutrition.…
The World Health Organization defines obesity as an excess of body fat that negatively affects health. A common method to determine body fat percentage in children and adolescents is the use of prediction equations based on the measurement of subcutaneous adipose skinfolds.…
The March Nutrition Society Paper of the month is from British Journal of Nutrition and is entitled ‘Nutrition economics – food as an ally of public health’.…
In his second post, Cambridge University Press Social Science Publisher John Haslam offers a few more notes on getting your first book ready for publication. …
In the first of three posts, Cambridge University Press Social Science Publisher John Haslam offers a few notes on getting your first book ready for publication.…
Integrating Exercise into a curriculum can modify unhealthy eating behaviour and reduce sedentary lifestyle in school Children In a study published in Public Health Nutrition, researchers from the Minas Gerais State Secretariat for Health – Brazil demonstrated the effectiveness of a Brazilian version of the American program ‘TAKE 10!®’…
Study: Food Ads Target Parents with Taste and Convenience and ignore nutrition interventions recommended to help parents understand nutritional information. ALBANY, N.Y…
The impact on children of alcohol and fast-food advertising in sports sponsorship is concerning health experts at The University of Western Australia.…
People can burn up to 20% more body fat by exercising in the morning on an empty stomach, according to new research from Northumbria University.…
The January Nutrition Society Paper of the month is from British Journal of Nutrition and is entitled ‘Fewer adults add salt at the table after initiation of a national salt campaign in the UK: a repeated cross-sectional analysis’ The UK Food Standards Agency’s consumer awareness campaign and trends in discretionary salt use There is a strong body of evidence that links high dietary salt intakes to hypertension, which is a major cause of cardiovascular disease.…
New Standard Needed to Help Consumers, Organizations Choose Foods Rich in Whole Grains Boston, MA – Current standards for classifying foods as “whole grain” are inconsistent and, in some cases, misleading, according to a new study by Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers.…
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