NHLBI study shows reduced fat intake to lower cholesterol is safe and beneficial for children
...ntion group participated in periodic sessions with nutrition counselors to help them follow a regimen similar t...ed from 34.0% to 30.6% of calories. Scientists and nutrition experts view the improved dietary habits of the children in this study as encouraging - and reflecti...Excess iron stores more common than anemia in study of U.S. elderly
Fleming et al.conducted a study of iron nutrition in the elderly, who are the fastest growing segmen...xhibited a significantly different profile of iron nutrition than the normal group of 834 subjects, with 1.5-fold greater incidence of high iron stores and a 2.6...Study: overweight more common among early-maturing girls, especially minorities
...rofessor and assistant professor, respectively, of nutrition at the UNC schools of public health and medicine. "In the 1960s, 21.1 percent of black females were overweight," the two wrote. "By the mid-1990s, the percentage had increased to 30.7 percent. Data from the Third National Health and Nutrition E...New light shed on vitamin A's role in the body's natural defenses
...ne Ross, who holds the Dorothy Foehr Huck Chair in nutrition in Penn State's College of Health and Human Development, led the research effort. "There are quite a few animal studies that show that vitamin A deficiency affects inflammation and the immune system's response," she says. "These new data from experi...Study to focus on diet, nutrition and weight loss in cats with cancer
... want to provide every cancer patient with optimal nutrition to maintain an excellent quality of life during tr...p specialized cancer diets that provide the proper nutrition and which cats can and will eat. The study will require researchers to treat cats with a variety o...Small streams important in controlling nitrogen
...ugh denitrification processes and the rest becomes nutrition for algae, bacteria and fungi, which then become food for aquatic insects and fish. As the plant or organism dies, the nitrogen can then end up as slowly decomposing materials that settle in the stream or lake sediments, Webster says. He explains......ed to kill leukemia cells. We've conducted a NASA nutrition study to prevent kidney stones in space, and we've tested inhaled insulin as a painless way to treat diabetes." The grant, from the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Research Resources, pays for specialized facilities and staff and...UNC scientists find U.S. children snack more now than they did two decades ago
... in fat, salt and sugar, said Popkin, professor of nutrition and epidemiology at the UNC schools of public heal...e Dr. Anna Maria Siega-Riz, assistant professor of nutrition and of maternal and child health, and Lisa Jahns, a dietitian and doctoral student in nutrition. "R...Like USA children, young adults snacking more now than they did two decades ago
...; Dr. Anna Maria Siega-Riz, assistant professor of nutrition and of maternal and child health; and Dr. Barry M. Popkin, professor of nutrition. The two professors, also fellows at the UNC Carolina Population Center, released a different study in the Journal of Pediatrics April 6 showing U.S. adolescents also a...New research confirms that natural selection is acting on the current human population
... contraception for women and better healthcare and nutrition for children. Dr Ian Owens of the Department of Biology and Biochemistry at Imperial College, an author on the paper, described the significance of their research: The most important finding is that changes in society, such as freely-available birth...Mandatory nutrition labeling reduces high-fat purchases
...les of other high-fat foods as well. To study how nutrition labels affect consumer choices, Alan D. Mathios, a...the label law, all low-fat salad dressings carried nutrition labels, says Mathios, but the vast majority of high-fat dressings didn't. "We chose to study salad ...Scientists: nutritional deficiency can boost influenza virus damage
...nda A. Beck, associate professor of pediatrics and nutrition at the UNC schools of medicine and public health, and Heather K. Nelson, a doctoral student in nutrition at UNC. Dr. Orville A. Levander, a nutritionist with the Agricultural Research Service's Beltsville ...Low-income, hungry children sick more often
...ANES surveys are the most comprehensive health and nutrition surveys the federal government conducts. The survey examined more than 11,000 children ages 1-16, and, among other questions, asked a family head to describe the food eaten by the family. During the study period, more than 15 percent of low-income ...Nuts cut coronary heart disease risk
...r. Penny Kris-Etherton, distinguished professor of nutrition and lead author of the review, says, "To date, five large epidemiologic studies and 11 clinical studies have demonstrated that frequent consumption of nuts decreases the risk of coronary heart disease." The most improvement comes with adding very sm...Breast-fed babies less likely to be overweight children, teens
...food for infants," says William Dietz, division of nutrition and physical activity, Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, in an accompanying editorial. "The increased initiation and duration of breastfeeding may also provide a low-cost, readily available strategy to help prevent childhood and adolescent o...How to build strong bones: Get milk, lose the booze
...es, especially in the femoral neck. Although good nutrition is essential for maintaining bone health - and alc... shown that alcohol can slow bone growth even when nutrition is maintained. This indicates that alcohol is directly responsible for at least some detrimental ef...You are what you eat and your kids are too
...udy was collected through the "High Five, Low Fat" nutrition program, a community-based study designed to lower dietary fat intake and increase fruit and vegetable consumption among African-American parents. The program was developed in collaboration with Parents as Teachers, a national education program for p...Soil fertility limits forests capacity to absorb excess CO2.
...rowth by 15 percent. The combination of improved nutrition and elevated CO2 increased growth by 47 percent at...uded. At the infertile site, trees without added nutrition showed virtually no growth response to elevated CO2 in two years. Under optimal nutrition and ambie...Standing tall: Plains indians enjoyed height, health advantage
... suffered from a lack of proper nutrition and medical care, Steckel said. "The Plains Indians had a remarkable record of nutritional and health success, despite the enormous pressures they were under," Stec...Higher fat diets show same positive effects on LDLs as low fat diet
...r. Penny Kris-Etherton, distinguished professor of nutrition and leader of the study, says, "Results from this ... Rebecca L. Hargrove, who earned an M.S. degree in nutrition at Penn State; Dr. Terry Etherton, distinguished professor and head of the dairy and animal sciences...