UNC-CH researchers to comb N.C. mountains for iron problem chiefly affecting Scots, Irish
...losing red blood cells." Otherwise healthy Western diets may make hemochromatosis worse, she said. Such diets are heavy in iron, and most cereals are fortified with the metal even though that's unnecessary. ......f inbred male and female flies raised on different diets at different temperatures. Using genetic mapping techniques, they then searched for genetic variations that correlated with long lifespans. Each of the 17 variations that Mackay's team found increased longevity only in certain environments, or in a ...Study: exercise, even without weight loss, is good for the heart
...s started losing weight, researchers altered their diets to maintain a constant weight. The patients enrolled in the trial had body mass index (BMI) ranging from 25 to 35. It is estimated that about 55 percent of Americans have a BMI greater than 25, and half of them have a BMI greater than 30. BMI, beca...Experts say diet and exercise play critical role in cancer prevention
...ssued a statement urging Americans to change their diets to help reduce the number of cancer-related deaths. Savaiano notes that though some types of cancer are more influenced by diet than others, nutrition and food scientists agree that there are four practical diet-related ways to lower cancer risk: E...Up to one-third of all cancer cases may be prevented by healthy diets and exercise, notes FANSA
CHICAGO -- Healthy diets and exercise may prevent as many cases of cancer in the United States as not smoking, according to a recent statement by the Food and Nutrition Science Alliance (FANSA). Cancer kills more than 500,000 Americans every year. In a review of cancer rese...Iron chefs get nutritional boost cooking vegetables
SAN FRANCISCO, March 30 -- While raw food diets are trendy today, the chemistry behind simple cook...y, the American Chemical Society. Vegetarian diets are naturally lower in iron, and iron deficiency anemia is "the most prevalent nutritional problem i...Purdue researcher creates soy feed to keep fish on the table
...oducer who plans to try it. Brown's also detailing diets for lobsters. "The lobster industry is growing, but producers face a shortage of feeds," Brown says. "Their main food has been cod racks the cod head, bones and guts left after processors take off the fillets. As of two years ago, the North Atlantic...Evidence suggests food preservatives may help prevent cavities
...cross the board, animals who had fluoride in their diets had far fewer cavities than those that did not. But fluoride's protective effect was especially strong in animals that also received benzoates. Rats that received neither fluoride nor benzoate had an average of about 16 cavities on their smooth surfa...Strict diets required for chronic disease management may increase risk of unhealthy eating behaviors
...and individuals with PKU who don't adhere to their diets can develop brain damage. A statistically comparable number of the 54 study participants with diabetes and the 30 study participants with PKU demonstrated symptoms of eating-disordered behavior, according to authors Joan C. Chrisler, PhD, and Jea...Updated study shows baseline annual diet costs less for women than men
...diet problem, although not effective for producing diets for humans to be followed literally, has proven of... beans. The daily cost of this diet is $1.47. Both diets provides servings from all six food groups established by the USDA: 1) fats, oils, and sweets group;...Eating recommended foods associated with decrease in risk of mortality for women
...ing food-based dietary guidelines and suggest that diets complying with current dietary recommendations are indeed associated with improved health outcome. The potential public health implications of these findings are considerable."...New fossils may be first human ancestors out of Africa, say Science authors
...el." Antn notes that as early humans shifted their diets to include larger amounts of animal protein, there probably was a corresponding expansion in their home range to match the ranges of these animals. Along with Ferring, Lordkipanidze, Swisher, and Antn, the Dmanisi research group includes Director L...Cincinnati Children's researchers uncover critical food allergy pathway
...ng ages when adverse reactions to new foods in the diets often becomes a challenging problem." Because of the rise in food allergies and their associated reactions, Cincinnati's Children's has launched a new Food Allergy Program that will serve as an international referral center for food allergy and eosin...Physical activity, not diet, most influences preschoolers' weight
...hildren ages 1.5-4.5 years, evaluating their daily diets and overall body composition. Subjects for the study were recruited through the Feasibility Study for the National Diet and Nutrition Survey of Children in Great Britain and were evenly divided between boys and girls. Each mother or care giver was i...Do fish farms really add to the world's supply of fish?
... majority of animals grown on fish farms thrive on diets consisting primarily of plant food. These include ...to Naylor and Mooney, species raised on vegetarian diets actually contribute to the world's supply of fish. But that could change dramatically, warn the aut...Cadmium makes brittle bones in Rocky Mt. birds
... Larison, birds with insufficient calcium in their diets are even more likely to accumulate toxic cadmium levels. He discovered the most profound cadmium problems among female grouse, which stay in the mining areas during the winter months when willows are their principal source of sustenance. "Birds in...Study: too much sugar, not enough milk may damage U.S. teens' health
...965 and 1996, a considerable shift occurred in the diets of U.S. teen-agers that could compromise the future health of the nation's people, a major new University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study shows. On the horizon, researchers say, are more strokes, heart disease, high blood pressure and cases of...Changes in diet related to prevalence of asthma and allergies
...after adjusting for other factors. Children, whose diets were relatively low in vegetables and vitamin E intake, were around three times as likely to suffer wheeze. Family size, numbers of infections, level of affluence, and parental smoking, all of which are considered to be risk factors for asthma, were ...... Clinical Nutrition, Dr. Robert Heaney studied the diets of a large group of nuns and concluded that protei...tudy interval, subjects were fed duplicate weighed diets which had been analyzed for calcium, phosphorus and nitrogen (the last used to calculate protein int......ic diet as babies and young children, though their diets had subsequently been altered at an average age of...l products and hence is entirely absent from vegan diets and nearly so from macrobiotic diets, which may contain small amounts of fish. Severe B12 deficienc...