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Parental contact improves student diet
I. Hoskins
17 May 2013
[Subjects] Nutrition & health
Students at a US college ate more healthily on days on which they communicated with their parents for 30 minutes or more finds a study in Journal of Adolescent Health.
Students are not a group that eats particularly healthily....
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Restaurant meals - bad for the waistline
I. Hoskins
15 May 2013
[Subjects] Nutrition & health
A study in JAMA Internal Medicine this week highlights the oversized portions...
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European Commission proposes new rules for safer food
R. Wood
08 May 2013
[Subjects] Food safety
The European Commission has adopted a package of measures to strengthen the enforcement of health and safety standards for the whole agri-food chain.
The Commission says the...
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Obesity: Is carbohydrate the problem?
I. Hoskins
17 April 2013
[Subjects] Nutrition physiology / Nutrition & health
Despite all the advice and campaigns to lose weight the obesity epidemic continues unabated. In the BMJ, Gary Taubes argues that we need to reconsider our approach. He advocates taking another look at the theory that obesity is an endocrinological...
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Phenylbutazone in horse meat: risk assessment
17 April 2013
[Subjects] Food safety
A joint assessment from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) concludes that the illegal...
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Carnitine could it be linked to heart disease?
Isobel Hoskins
10 April 2013
[Subjects] Nutrition & disease
Carnitine, found in abundance in red meat, and a popular food supplement, may be implicated in heart disease according to a recent study in Nature Medicine. In the study, researchers led by Robert Koeth of the Cleveland Clinic report that...
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Campylobacter and E. coli cases show upward trend in EU
10 April 2013
[Subjects] Food science
Campylobacteriosis remains the most reported zoonotic disease in humans in the EU, with a continuous increase in reported cases over the last five years, according to The European Union Summary Report on Trends and Sources of Zoonoses, Zoonotic Agents and Food-borne Outbreaks in 2011...
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Many mothers feed solid food too soon finds US study
I. Hoskins
04 April 2013
[Subjects] Nutrition & health
As much as 40% of US mothers introduce their child to solid foods before the age of 4 months against the recommendations of the American Academy of Pediatrics to wait until 6 months of age. Bottle fed infants were at greatest risk of being fed solid...
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Antioxidants- good or bad?
I. Hoskins
20 March 2013
[Subjects] Nutrition physiology / Nutrition & health
Antioxidant supplements are taken by many people in the belief it will improve their health and they represent a large income to food companies. But an article this week by James Watson, one of the discoverers of the DNA double helix, questions...
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Salt, could it be implicated in autoimmunity?
I. Hoskins
07 March 2013
[Subjects] Nutrition physiology
A high salt environment may be the trigger that sets off autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis suggest several papers in Nature this week. They showed salt stimulates development of a type of T cell important in some autoimmune diseases... |