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Food and Nutrition Education, Policy and Training in the UK.
Authors: Ballam R Abstract In the context of child health in the UK, the focus is centered on childhood obesity, with one in 10 children aged 4-5 years being overweight or obese, rising to one in 3 children by the age of 11-15 years. There is also a concern with micronutrient deficiency, as well as low levels of fruit and vegetable consumption. Many children are also not reaching the recommended 1 h of physical activity per day. The UK government has introduced a number of measures through the Childhood obesity - a plan of action, including a sugar reformulation program, updating marketing restrictions to children,...
Source: Nestlee Nutrition Institute Workshop Series - December 1, 2019 Category: Nutrition Tags: Nestle Nutr Inst Workshop Ser Source Type: research

Validation of a 16th Century Traditional Chinese Medicine Use of Ginkgo biloba as a Topical Antimicrobial
This study aimed to examine the traditional use of Ginkgo seeds as topical treatment for skin disorders for potential antibacterial efficacy. This is the first study to test and compare the antibacterial activity of various Ginkgo seed extracts on skin pathogens. In this work, we confirmed the ethnomedicinal importance of seeds in the treatment of skin diseases. As reported in the Compendium of Materia Medica Ben Cao Gang Mu, only the seeds were used for medicinal uses, especially as a topical treatment for skin infections. Moreover, our study validates the antimicrobial activity of the seed (i.e., seed coats and immature...
Source: Frontiers in Microbiology - April 15, 2019 Category: Microbiology Source Type: research

NIDCR's Spring 2020 E-Newsletter
Having trouble viewing this email? View it as a Web page. NIDCR's Spring 2020 E-Newsletter In this issue: NIDCR News Funding Opportunities NIH/HHS News Funding Notices Science Advances Subscribe to NICDR News Grantee News   NIDCR News CDC’s COVID-19 Guidance for Dental Settings  Dental health care personnel can find COVID-19-related information on the CDC’s Division of Oral Health website, which offers guidance and resources for clinics and health care facilities and recommendations for respondi...
Source: NIDCR Science News - March 27, 2020 Category: Dentistry Source Type: news

Replacing Monopolies with Impact Rewards
This article was originally published by OpenGlobalRights
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - September 24, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Thomas Pogge Tags: Economy & Trade Global Global Governance Headlines Health Human Rights TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news

Informatics and Computational Methods in Natural Product Drug Discovery: A Review and Perspectives
Joseph D. Romano1,2,3,4 and Nicholas P. Tatonetti1,2,3,4* 1Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States 2Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States 3Department of Medicine, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States 4Data Science Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States The discovery of new pharmaceutical drugs is one of the preeminent tasks—scientifically, economically, and socially—in biomedical research. Advances in informatics and computational biology have increased productivity at many ...
Source: Frontiers in Genetics - April 29, 2019 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: research

News at a glance: Ebola vaccine trial on hold, Oppenheimer ’s name cleared, and the return of a long-forgotten coffee bean
PUBLIC HEALTH Ebola vaccine trial on hold A planned clinical trial of vaccines against the Sudan ebolavirus likely will not go forward, after traditional containment methods appear to have stamped out the outbreak of Ebola that surfaced in Uganda on 20 September. An international effort moved at record speed to deliver two experimental vaccines against the virus, which differs from the Zaire ebolavirus that caused the massive West Africa outbreak in 2014–16. The vaccines arrived in Uganda last week, and a third is on the way. But the planned “ring trial” depended on vaccinating recent contacts of peopl...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - December 22, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research

Xenopus Resources: Transgenic, Inbred and Mutant Animals, Training Opportunities, and Web-Based Support
This reporter group also includes lines driven by ubiquitous promoters like CMV and human ubiquitin C. These are particularly useful for cut-and-paste, transplantation-based experiments to label and fate map regions of host embryos. The second group of reporter expression lines includes transgenics marking subcellular organelles (Supplementary Table S1B). These are highly useful for the study of molecular processes involved in cell function and are especially effective when utilized in the context of Xenopus egg extracts, the only cell-free system that permits full investigation of all DNA transactions related to cell cyc...
Source: Frontiers in Physiology - April 24, 2019 Category: Physiology Source Type: research

Researchers in Puerto Rico struggle to adapt in the aftermath of Hurricane Fiona
Three days after Hurricane Fiona tore its way through Puerto Rico, Ileana Rodríguez-Velez arrived at her laboratory, which had lost power, not knowing what to expect. A chemist at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR), Humacao, Rodríguez-Velez opened a refrigerator that stores the samples of rare plants her lab studies for their potential medical uses. The inside was warm, and most of the samples, which include fruits and leaves that must be stored at 4°C, were brown and withered—and now useless. “It’s frustrating to know that all of those hours my students and I spent on working to collect and process these plants ...
Source: ScienceNOW - September 27, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: news

Adaptation of the Human Gut Microbiota Metabolic Network During the First Year After Birth
This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Center for Public Health Research (CSISP), Valencia, Spain. All women participating in the study read and signed forms of informed consent specifically approved for this project by the Ethics Committee. Author Contributions MF, JR-H, and FP conceived this study. IA and AF carried out the computational implementation. SP-B performed the metabolomic experiments. YV generated and processed metagenomic data and collected food frequency questionnaires. All authors wrote, read, and approved the manuscript. Funding IA was supported by a Basque Government predoctoral grant...
Source: Frontiers in Microbiology - April 23, 2019 Category: Microbiology Source Type: research

Can a 4,815-Mile Wall of Trees Help Curb Climate Change in Africa?
The seedlings are ready. One hundred and fifty thousand shoots of drought-resistant acacia, hardy baobab and Moringa spill out of their black plastic casings. The ground has been prepared with scores of kilometer-long furrows leading to a horizon studded with skeletal thorn trees. It’s early August, and in less than a week, 399 volunteers from 27 countries will arrive in this remote corner of northern Senegal to participate in one of the world’s most audacious efforts to combat the effects of climate change: an $8 billion plan to reforest 247 million acres of degraded land across the width of Africa, stretching...
Source: TIME: Science - September 12, 2019 Category: Science Authors: Aryn Baker / Mbar Toubab, Senegal Tags: Uncategorized Africa Climate 2019 climate change Source Type: news

U.S. universities fight Senate innovation bill targeting foreign gifts to faculty
The shape of U.S. research is at stake as Congress tries to reconcile competing versions of a massive bill, 2 years in the making, aimed at bolstering U.S. competitiveness with China in research and high-tech manufacturing. The bills would not only authorize spending hundreds of billions of additional dollars on research, but also set out new policies on the government’s approach to supporting science. One controversial provision in the Senate version, the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act (USICA), would change how the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy’s science office distr...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - June 23, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research

Trends in, projections of, and inequalities in non-communicable disease management indicators in Vietnam 2010-2030 and progress toward universal health coverage: A Bayesian analysis at national and sub-national levels
EClinicalMedicine. 2022 Jul 11;51:101550. doi: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2022.101550. eCollection 2022 Sep.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: Movement towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC) can improve health services, risk factor management, and inequality in non-communicable diseases (NCD); conversely, prioritizing and monitoring NCD management can support pathways to UHC in resource-limited settings. We aimed to estimate trends in NCD management indicators in Vietnam from 2010, and projections to 2030 at national and sub-national levels; compute the probability of reaching UHC targets; and measure inequalities in NCD management indicators at ...
Source: Cancer Control - July 20, 2022 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Phuong The Nguyen Stuart Gilmour Phuong Mai Le Hoa L Nguyen Thi Minh An Dao Bao Quoc Tran Minh Van Hoang Huy Van Nguyen Source Type: research

Correlates of low physical activity across 46 low- and middle-income countries: A cross-sectional analysis of community-based data
Publication date: January 2018 Source:Preventive Medicine, Volume 106 Author(s): Ai Koyanagi, Brendon Stubbs, Davy Vancampfort Physical inactivity accounts for 5.5% of all avoidable global deaths. However, a paucity of multinational studies, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), has investigated correlates of physical activity (PA). Thus, we assessed the correlates of PA using cross-sectional, community-based data of the World Health Survey including 46 LMICs. PA was assessed by the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) and participants were dichotomized into those who do (≥150min mode...
Source: Preventive Medicine - January 8, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Evaluation of the National School Food Program: review of the literature
The objective was to perform a brief analysis of evaluative research on the PNAE. It involved a search of the literature from 2010 to 2015 in the Bireme and Scielo databases. Twelve articles were selected linked to the area, eight of which analyzed the insertion of the nutritionist in the PNAE; seven, to buy food from family farms; five, the implementation of School Food Councils; five, the compilation of menus; and four, funding destined for the PNAE. Problems in the performance of the nutritionist and the School Food Councils, on buying food from family farms and in the compilation of the menus (low fruit and vegetable c...
Source: Ciencia e Saude Coletiva - May 10, 2018 Category: Occupational Health Source Type: research

6-Bromoindirubin-3 ′-Oxime (6BIO) Suppresses the mTOR Pathway, Promotes Autophagy, and Exerts Anti-aging Effects in Rodent Liver
In this study, we aimed to investigate the anti-aging effect, and molecular mechanism, of the novel anti-aging drug 6BIO on naturally aged mouse liver. Rapamycin, a well-known promising anti-aging drug that delays aging through mTOR-dependent autophagy (Zhou and Ye, 2018), was used as the positive control in the study. To our knowledge, this is the first study to demonstrate the effects of 6BIO treatment in models of natural aging. Our results indicated that 6BIO ameliorates the decline of liver function with age, including lipid metabolism disorder, and attenuates hepatocyte senescence in aged mice, as revealed by altera...
Source: Frontiers in Pharmacology - April 9, 2019 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research

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