How crowdsourcing helped to evaluate the healthiness of chain restaurant meals
This month ' s Paper of the Month is fromPublic Health Nutrition and is entitled ‘Evaluating the healthiness of chain-restaurant menu items using crowdsourcing: a new method' . Lead author, Lenard I Lesser, discusses the importance of consumer education on the healthiness of fast food restaurants.While working with adolescents, I realised that adolescents get most of their information about the healthiness of food from the food industry and the media. Before our research found that adolescents ate roughly the same amount of calories at Subway and McDonald ’s, however the teens thought Subway was definitely the healthie...
Source: The Nutrition Society - August 10, 2016 Category: Nutrition Authors: Cassandra Ellis Source Type: news
Introduction to Food Policy
Discussion14:45 Summary15:00 CloseBooking Info: Who Should Attend?The workshop is designed for nutritionists working with industry or other organisations wishing to understand how and when to develop policy for their organisations.Questions?If you have any queries, or would like to find out more, please contactHajnal ZdravicsRegistration Link: Register hereVenue Name: The Nutrition Society Training roomScientific Area: Public Health NutritionLearning Outcomes& CPD: Learning Outcomes:At the end of the workshop delegates will be able to:Answer ' what is a policy? 'Determine when a policy needs to...
Source: The Nutrition Society - August 2, 2016 Category: Nutrition Authors: admin Source Type: news
New perspectives on dairy and cardiovascular health
This month's Paper of the Month is from Proceedings of the Nutrition Society and is entitled ‘Milk and dairy produce and CVD: new perspectives on dairy and cardiovascular health'. Authors, Julie A. Lovegrove and Ditte A. Hobbs, University of Reading, discuss the evidence on dairy product intake and cardiovascular disease risk and implications for dietary advice.
One key recommendation for decreasing cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk is to reduce saturated fat intake to less than 10% total energy, yet the majority of the UK population are exceeding this level. As dairy products contribute over 27% of total dietary saturat...
Source: The Nutrition Society - July 8, 2016 Category: Nutrition Authors: Cassandra Ellis Source Type: news
Student Conferences
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Source: The Nutrition Society - June 22, 2016 Category: Nutrition Authors: Danielle Guilford Source Type: news
Surprising new study reveals maternal vitamin D status may not benefit bone health in offspring
This month's Paper of the Month is from British Journal of Nutrition and is entitled ‘Predicted vitamin D status during pregnancy in relation to offspring forearm fractures in childhood: a study from the Danish National Birth Cohort'. The authors discuss their findings and implications for public health advice on vitamin supplementation during pregnancy.IntroductionVitamin D supplementation during pregnancy is recommended in many countries to secure optimal vitamin D status and improve maternal and infant health outcomes. However, the results of our study surprisingly indicate that vitamin D supplementation may have som...
Source: The Nutrition Society - June 16, 2016 Category: Nutrition Authors: Cassandra Ellis Source Type: news
New mobile methods for dietary assessment
A major challenge in nutritional epidemiology is assessing dietary intake accurately enough to be able to reveal diet health associations. Read our Q&A with Professor Carol Boushey, University of Hawaii, USA, who will be presenting her work on new mobile methods for dietary assessment during the Summer Meeting. see the full programme here.
How did you originally become involved in creating innovative dietary measurement approaches?The real answer so dates me. I was working with Dr. Jean Hankin at the University of Hawaii on a project collecting dietary data among adolescents in Alaska. One of the goals was to examine ...
Source: The Nutrition Society - June 3, 2016 Category: Nutrition Authors: Cassandra Ellis Source Type: news
The role of emotion regulation in childhood obesity
In conclusion, encouraging effective ER could be a useful new approach for combating and treating childhood obesity. Nonetheless, ER intervention studies are needed to confirm the validity of this model in children.
Implications for treatment:• Consider traditional weight loss methods and nutritional recommendations along with ER intervention. • Target barriers in the treatment progress such as shame and preoccupation with food by fostering greater self-esteem, resilience and body acceptance. • Families need to be aware of the emotional distress that overweight children suffer from. Consequently, the family should...
Source: The Nutrition Society - May 20, 2016 Category: Nutrition Authors: Cassandra Ellis Source Type: news
The role of emotion regulation in childhood obesity
In conclusion, encouraging effective ER could be a useful new approach for combating and treating childhood obesity. Nonetheless, ER intervention studies are needed to confirm the validity of this model in children.
Implications for treatment:• Consider traditional weight loss methods and nutritional recommendations along with ER intervention. • Target barriers in the treatment progress such as shame and preoccupation with food by fostering greater self-esteem, resilience and body acceptance. • Families need to be aware of the emotional distress that overweight children suffer from. Consequently, the family should...
Source: The Nutrition Society - May 12, 2016 Category: Nutrition Authors: Cassandra Ellis Source Type: news
Association of protein intake with the change of lean mass among elderly women
In conclusion, our findings support the current evidence that higher total, and in particular animal protein intakes are beneficial in preserving lean mass. A remarkable finding of this study was that the associations of total and animal protein intake with increased lean mass were more apparent among elderly women who maintained their weight and received vitamin D and calcium supplementation. Since dietary protein intake, vitamin D and weight change are important health concerns of ageing, our results might underscore an important message for public health.
Implications of these findingsGreater lean mass area is associate...
Source: The Nutrition Society - April 26, 2016 Category: Nutrition Authors: Cassandra Ellis Source Type: news
Association of protein intake with the change of lean mass among elderly women
In conclusion, our findings support the current evidence that higher total, and in particular animal protein intakes are beneficial in preserving lean mass. A remarkable finding of this study was that the associations of total and animal protein intake with increased lean mass were more apparent among elderly women who maintained their weight and received vitamin D and calcium supplementation. Since dietary protein intake, vitamin D and weight change are important health concerns of ageing, our results might underscore an important message for public health.
Implications of these findingsGreater lean mass area is associate...
Source: The Nutrition Society - April 14, 2016 Category: Nutrition Authors: Cassandra Ellis Source Type: news
New technology in nutrition research and practice
Technological advances bring new opportunities for scientific research to aid our understanding of human mechanisms. This enables researchers and practitioners to build on traditional methods using different assessment tools to advance research and give the most appropriate advice to patients.
One area which has seen particular advancement is nutrigenomics; the study of how diet and nutrients affect gene expression. This includes analysis of mRNA, proteins and metabolites and can be used as a research tool to study the physiological effects of nutrition. This is key in understanding how nutrition can effect health...
Source: The Nutrition Society - March 16, 2016 Category: Nutrition Authors: Cassandra Ellis 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 15, 2016 Category: Nutrition Authors: Mark Hollingsworth - CEO Blog Source Type: news
Does location matter? A study of malnutrition amongst Ethiopian children
The Nutrition Society Paper of the Month for March is from Public Health Nutrition and is entitled: ‘Local spatial clustering of stunting and wasting among children under the age of 5 years: implications for intervention strategies’. Lead author, Seifu Hagos Gebreyesus, discusses the effects of location on malnutrition in Ethiopia.
As malnutrition is a major public health problem in Ethiopia, we aimed to find out how the acute and chronic forms of undernutrition occur in the districts and kebeles (a kebele is the smallest administrative unit) in Ethiopia. Such knowledge could be helpful in improving our understanding...
Source: The Nutrition Society - March 7, 2016 Category: Nutrition Authors: Cassandra Ellis Source Type: news
