Can using social media boost your career?
Interesting subject – nutrition. Almost anyone can claim to become an expert overnight. There are plenty of examples of celebrities, random bloggers and social media commentators giving all sorts of advice to the world at large about what we should and should not be eating.
Today anyone can set up their own blog, have their own YouTube channel and social media feeds, all for free. It is a crowded, competitive, complex virtual landscape. Yet, what consumers of information want most of all, is trusted sources.
Many nutrition researchers and academics may look at that crowded Internet landscape and recoil in horro...
Source: The Nutrition Society - May 12, 2015 Category: Nutrition Authors: Robin Banerji Source Type: news
Health-seeking behaviour & community perceptions of childhood undernutrition in rural Bihar, India
Image of jallachatu. Jallachatu is believed to occur when a vulture flies over the mother during pregnancy. Drawing from an exhibition on malnutrition in Bihar by artist Vinoy Jha.
This month’s featured paper is from Public Health Nutrition and is entitled ‘Health-seeking behaviour and community perceptions of childhood under-nutrition and a community management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) programme in rural Bihar, India’. Médecins Sans Frontières’ (MSF) qualitative study is based on narrative interviews of over one hundred and fifty family members of severely malnourished children.
Co-authored by Doris Burts...
Source: The Nutrition Society - April 16, 2015 Category: Nutrition Authors: Cassandra Ellis Source Type: news
Student Nominations Open
Become a Student Representative
With the Student Representative election fast approaching, we spoke to Sebastian Achterfeldt, the current Student Representative, to see why it is important for students to have a voice with the Nutrition Society, and what he has learnt during his two years in this position.
1. Why is it important to have a Student Representative on the Council of the Nutrition Society?
This is very important as students form a large section of the overall membership. The Student Representative is part of the Training and Education committee and the Nutrition Society Council. In both committees, the Student...
Source: The Nutrition Society - April 2, 2015 Category: Nutrition Authors: Cassandra Ellis Source Type: news
Scottish Section Meeting – Diet, Gene Regulation & Metabolic Disease
One of the highlights of the Scottish meeting this year was the addition of a new, interactive ‘Question Time’ style Q&A session chaired by Professor Harry J McArdle. After an extremely busy scientific meeting with experts from around the globe sharing their knowledge and research, it was time for the audience to get involved.
The eight members of the panel enthusiastically offered to answer questions on any topic the audience chose! However, luckily for them, delegates stuck to topics from the conference.
To start, the audience were keen to hear a summary of the themes and take home messages from the conferenc...
Source: The Nutrition Society - April 1, 2015 Category: Nutrition Authors: Cassandra Ellis Source Type: news
Nutrition Policy to Practice in Pakistan: Exploring the challenges and research opportunities
by Professor Nicola Lowe
Day One:The long journey finally came to an end, and we all arrived in Islamabad! After months of planning by the co-ordination team, which I affectionately referred to as the “dream team”, the big launch day arrived. It had been quite a journey to get to that point. Not just the travelling, but all the manic last minute activity; applying for visas which needed flight reservations, making flight reservations that required a visa, not to mention the letter of invitation from the British Council. I never did figure out which bit of this eternal circle depended on what. But we were there.
The in...
Source: The Nutrition Society - March 16, 2015 Category: Nutrition Authors: Cassandra Ellis Source Type: news
Muscle loss: Can nutrition make a difference?
Our muscle strength peaks when we reach 30 years old. Over the age of 50, our muscles get weaker at a rate of around 15 per cent every ten years; increasing to 30 per cent per decade after the age of 70. Additionally, our skeletal muscle mass decreases by up to 50% between the ages of 20 to 90 (McLean & Kiel, 2015). A recent systematic review published in Age and Ageing, reported that age-related muscle loss, or sarcopenia, affects up to 1 in 20 of us over 60 years old, and up to one third of older people living in institutional settings like care homes.
The high prevalence of sarcopenia is of particular concern gi...
Source: The Nutrition Society - March 11, 2015 Category: Nutrition Authors: Cassandra Ellis Source Type: news
Age-related muscle loss: Can nutrition make a difference?
Our muscle strength peaks when we reach 30 years old. Over the age of 50, our muscles get weaker at a rate of around 15 per cent every ten years; increasing to 30 per cent per decade after the age of 70. Additionally, our skeletal muscle mass decreases by up to 50% between the ages of 20 to 90 (McLean & Kiel, 2015). A recent systematic review published in Age and Ageing, reported that age-related muscle loss, or sarcopenia, affects up to 1 in 20 of us over 60 years old, and up to one third of older people living in institutional settings like care homes.
The high prevalence of sarcopenia is of particular concern gi...
Source: The Nutrition Society - March 11, 2015 Category: Nutrition Authors: Cassandra Source Type: news
Future foods: Bug burger or lab burger?
New lab-grown meat products could be on supermarket shelves within seven years, according to creator Professor Mark Post, potentially revolutionising the way we produce meat globally. Is this the answer to the world's ever increasing appetite for meat?
According to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), livestock farming is one of the most pressing environmental problems we face globally. Livestock produce 18 per cent of the world’s greenhouse gases – more than transport. Grazing occupies 26 per cent of the world’s land surface. In some parts of the world like South America, 70 per cent of wha...
Source: The Nutrition Society - March 9, 2015 Category: Nutrition Authors: Robin Banerji Source Type: news
Do you have the experience and vision to help lead our Society?
No one doubts the importance of nutrition science and research in improving and maintaining human and animal health world-wide.
But who are the leaders in nutrition? How do you develop your skills as a leader? Does it enhance your own career and professional reputation? And what can you give to your peers, allied professions and the public more broadly by taking on a leadership role?
Since its inception in 1941, the Nutrition Society has been leading the way in promoting the importance and relevance of high quality, peer-reviewed nutrition research. Our Trustees (also called Honorary Officers) are seen as leaders in their ...
Source: The Nutrition Society - March 5, 2015 Category: Nutrition Authors: Mark Hollingsworth Source Type: news
Carbohydrates and obesity: from evidence to policy in the UK
This month’s featured paper is from Proceedings of the Nutrition Society and is entitled 'Carbohydrates and obesity: from evidence to policy in the UK'.
Carbohydrates provide the major source of energy in the diet and hence the type and amount of carbohydrate consumed is an important consideration for weight control. Recent risk assessments have shown that there is no consistent association between the proportions of energy consumed as carbohydrate and body weight and reinforce the dominance of total energy intake as the primary determinant of body weight. However, they have highlighted evidence that different types of ...
Source: The Nutrition Society - March 2, 2015 Category: Nutrition Authors: Cassandra Source Type: news
What does it mean to be a scientific learned society in the 21st Century?
Welcome to my first CEO Blog. I will be using this forum as a means to regularly keep all our members, stakeholders (and visitors to our website) informed on what might best be called the ‘view from my office’, here at the HQ of the Nutrition Society in London.
I joined the Nutrition Society as CEO on 1st July 2014, and enjoyed a two month transition into the role whilst the outgoing CEO Fred Wentworth-Bower eased himself (deservedly so) into his retirement. Fred had selflessly served the Nutrition Society for 10 years. The period since I was handed the full reins on 1st September has been preoccupied with developing a...
Source: The Nutrition Society - February 25, 2015 Category: Nutrition Authors: Mark Hollingsworth Source Type: news
Learn about the impact of diet on diabetes, cancer and heart disease
The Nutrition Society’s next scientific conference on 25-26 March in Aberdeen, Scotland, will focus on Diet, Gene Regulation and Metabolic Disease, and brings together leading scientific speakers on these topics from around the world:
Professor Donald B Jump, Nutrition Program, School of Biological and Population Health Sciences, Oregon State University, USA;
Professor Romano Regazzi, Vice-Director of the School of Medicine, Department of Fundamental Neurosciences, University of Lausanne, Switzerland;
Professor Loranne Agius, Professor of Metabolic Biochemistry, Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University, ...
Source: The Nutrition Society - February 17, 2015 Category: Nutrition Authors: RB Source Type: news
The impact of front-of-pack nutrition labels on consumer product evaluation and choice
This month’s featured paper is from Public Health Nutrition and is entitled 'The impact of front-of-pack nutrition labels on consumer product evaluation and choice: an experimental study'.In the last five years, front of pack (FOP) nutritional labelling has been a topic of significant attention in public health fields. Regulatory moves in many countries suggest that evidence of the impact of FOP labelling is an urgent requirement, however, little testing of developed systems and their impact on consumer choice has been carried out. Two FOP presentation systems have now achieved widespread use on consumer food products....
Source: The Nutrition Society - February 4, 2015 Category: Nutrition Authors: cassandra Source Type: news
How to measure mood in nutrition research
This month’s featured paper is from Nutrition Research Reviews and is entitled 'How to measure mood in nutrition research'. Mood is widely assessed in nutrition research, usually with rating scales. We have been researching the effects of food on mood for over twenty years, which has led us to have concerns about how mood is measured, one result of which is this review; we have been working on it intermittently ever since.
From early on, we had serious concerns because the mood effects of food are often fragile and hard to replicate, yet many foodstuffs are marketed and consumed on the assumption that they affect moo...
Source: The Nutrition Society - January 22, 2015 Category: Nutrition Authors: cassandra Source Type: news
New Year, New Diet?
For many of us, the first week back at work after the long festive break is almost over. But, how many people have stuck to their New Year resolution to eat more healthily or follow the latest celebrity juice diet plan to lose weight? Many of us will have already given into temptation and broken our resolutions because most diet plans tend to focus on extreme kilocalorie restriction. With recent reports in the Lancet confirming that poor diet now contributes to a greater number of diseases than smoking, alcohol and a sedentary lifestyle combined, can one month of energy restriction (or one week in some cases!) really mak...
Source: The Nutrition Society - January 9, 2015 Category: Nutrition Authors: cassandra Source Type: news
