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Source: Nutrition Today - May 1, 2022 Category: Nutrition Tags: DEPARTMENTS: News From ASN Source Type: research
NT0322-Trends in Food Allergy Research, Regulations and Patient Care
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Source: Nutrition Today - March 1, 2022 Category: Nutrition Tags: NCPD Test Source Type: research
Anise: Potential Health Benefits
Anise (Pimpinella anisum L., family Apiaceae) is an aromatic annual herb native to the eastern Mediterranean region and western Asia. Although the small fruit is incorrectly referred to as a seed, nonetheless, the fruit is commonly known as aniseed. When ripe and dried, it is the popular spice. Aniseed and its essential oil are used in traditional therapies, for example, for relief of coughs, respiratory congestion, migraines, gastrointestinal distress, and colic; for treatment of skin infections; as a tranquilizer and aphrodisiac; and to improve lactation. Limited and preliminary clinical research has examined the efficac...
Source: Nutrition Today - March 1, 2022 Category: Nutrition Tags: Food Science Source Type: research
Vitamin C: From Ancient Times to Today
Vitamin C or ascorbic acid is a required nutrient for humans. Should this vitamin be lacking in the human diet, the disease, scurvy, will develop. Scurvy has been described since ancient times, and its cure through the provision of ascorbic acid has had a torturous path. Vitamin C is an important contributor to the overall regulation of the redox state of the body due to its easy interconversion from an oxidized form to a reduced form and vice versa. It is important for collagen synthesis and serves as an essential coenzyme to a wide variety of enzymes. Not all animals require dietary intakes of the vitamin, but humans, so...
Source: Nutrition Today - March 1, 2022 Category: Nutrition Tags: Human Nutrition Source Type: research
The Quantified Caveman: A Yearlong Case Study of the Paleolithic Diet
This is a detailed study of nutritional and lifestyle data on a single individual who adhered to the Paleolithic diet (PD) for a full year. The dietary intake was compared with evidence-based guidelines and various PD iterations from the research literature and popular diet books. Although the subject's diet aligned with PD book recommendations, several nutrients differed markedly from estimations in the scientific literature, highlighting the importance of relying on evidence-based dietary advice. These findings provide insight into a contemporary PD in practice, the feasibility of nutrition tracking, and how self-tracked...
Source: Nutrition Today - March 1, 2022 Category: Nutrition Tags: Human Nutrition Source Type: research
Doris Howes Calloway: A Woman Who Changed Nutrition Around the World
At the beginning of her career after World War II, Doris Howes Calloway pushed forward into the rapidly expanding world of science and medicine and, for more than 50 years, focused her energies, abilities, and knowledge of foods, biochemistry, and physiology to advance the field of human nutrition as a science and to improve public health for all. She extended the importance of her research and thinking into contemporary social issues of poverty, disparity, diversity, and inequities of hunger and malnutrition. Dr Calloway was a product of her times, overcoming obstacles presented by the Great Depression, World War II, and ...
Source: Nutrition Today - March 1, 2022 Category: Nutrition Tags: Nutrition Science Source Type: research
Pandemic Health Science Communications: Lessons Learned (or Not Learned)
When the authors, in an article 2 years ago, explored early communication lessons from COVID-19, it was thought that the world would likely have gotten past the pandemic by publication date. Now, nearly 2 years later, the virus continues to wreak public fear and seemingly confound policy makers, the health/medical community, and risk communicators about how to address the virus. It is time to take stock again of what has worked and what has made matters worse in communicating about severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2—in other words, what may have gone wrong and what seems to have gone right. In the present ar...
Source: Nutrition Today - March 1, 2022 Category: Nutrition Tags: Nutrition and Communications Source Type: research
Trends in Food Allergy Research, Regulations and Patient Care
This review provides an overview of food allergies, their impact on affected individuals and caregivers, regulatory activities, and current research efforts to improve allergen management and patient care. Food allergies have been reported to affect up to 32 million Americans, including approximately 6 million children. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that food allergies in children have clearly increased by 50% between 1997 and 2011. Recent years have seen significant advances in the understanding of responses to food allergens such as the development of response thresholds that hold promise for de...
Source: Nutrition Today - March 1, 2022 Category: Nutrition Tags: Nutrition and Communications Source Type: research
Gene Editing in Plants: A Nutrition Professional's Guide to the Science, Regulatory, and Social Considerations
Gene editing has the potential to become a transformative tool of plant breeding. Modern plant breeding programs are built on a rich history of crossing and selection of desirable varieties, made more efficient in recent decades with the application of genomics. The additional precision of gene editing techniques such as CRISPR is poised to enable better identification and advancement of beneficial traits such as disease resistance that appeals to farmers or enhanced flavor that appeals to consumers. It is important to recognize, however, that gene-edited crops are coming to market in the wake of debates surrounding geneti...
Source: Nutrition Today - March 1, 2022 Category: Nutrition Tags: Nutrition and Communications Source Type: research
NEWSbreaks
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Source: Nutrition Today - March 1, 2022 Category: Nutrition Tags: DEPARTMENTS: Newsbreaks Source Type: research
NUTRITION Gazette
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Source: Nutrition Today - March 1, 2022 Category: Nutrition Tags: DEPARTMENTS: Nutrition Gazette Source Type: research
Nutrition 2022: A Year-Round Experience for Learning, Networking, and Engagement
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Source: Nutrition Today - March 1, 2022 Category: Nutrition Tags: DEPARTMENTS: News From ASN Source Type: research
Food Perceptions, Beliefs and Behaviors amid a Global Pandemic: Results of the International Food Information Council 2021 Food & Health Survey
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Source: Nutrition Today - January 1, 2022 Category: Nutrition Tags: NCPD Test Source Type: research
Cardamom: Potential Health Benefits
The spice cardamom, also known historically as the “queen of spices,” is produced from the seeds of the plant Elettaria cardamomum, which is cultivated commercially on plantations in the south of India, Sri Lanka, Central America, and Southeast Asia. It enhances both sweet and savory dishes in many regions around the world. In ancient traditional medicines, cardamom was used to alleviate digestive disorders and obesity, and even today, it is used in local cultures for individuals with ailments such as bronchitis, depression, dysentery, influenza, and infections. This narrative review discusses human investigations of c...
Source: Nutrition Today - January 1, 2022 Category: Nutrition Tags: Food Science Source Type: research
Fighting Nutrition and Health Misinformation: Enlisting the Public's Help
The twin phenomena of scientific misinformation and disinformation have recently been the object of an intense discussion among communicators of nutrition, health, and other science information. Especially with the rapidly evolving social media ecosystem, issues of public trust in consensus science have increasingly concerned those professionals whose mission it is to convey truthful and credible information. For several years, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine have been studying the “Science of Science Communication” and other aspects of public credulity in scientific findings, and recently...
Source: Nutrition Today - January 1, 2022 Category: Nutrition Tags: Nutrition and Communications Source Type: research
