Lack of access to food linked to increased medical utilization among diabetics
...f recent welfare reform came from cuts to food and nutrition programs, including food stamp allotments. Approximately 13 percent of diabetics in this study used food stamps, representing an estimated 1.2 million individuals nationally. A quarter of these diabetic adults reported not having enough food, comp...Scary study: Selenium deficiency causes flu virus to mutate into more dangerous forms
...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 research chemist with the Agricultural Research Service's Beltsvi...Study focuses on antioxidant capacity of honey
...opment circles, as science is looking beyond basic nutrition to nutraceutical substances. This study characterized the specific antioxidant content of seven varieties of honey. The antioxidant properties of these seven varieties of honey were analyzed using the oxygen radical absorbance capacity (ORAC) ass...MSU study finds new microbial source of nitrogen fixation
...he ways in which microbes can contribute to animal nutrition and health, not just cause disease." Other members of Breznak's research team were Timothy Lilburn, research associate in MSU's Center for Microbial Ecology; Kwi Kim, a research technician in Breznak's laboratory; Nathaniel Ostrom, an MSU associa...Cutting the risk of coronary disease - start before birth says UK doctor
...refore be a consequence of poor prenatal or infant nutrition followed by improved nutrition in early childhood. "The amount of fat in the body in relation to muscle may explain the increased ...Research funded to test new breast cancer medicine
..., July 9, 2001 Virginia Tech researchers in human nutrition and dairy science are beginning animal trials to test a new compound against breast cancer, thanks to a grant from Virginias Commonwealth Health Research Board (CHRB). Barbara Davis, an assistant professor in human nutrition, foods, and exercise, is ...Global consortium announces plans to sequence banana genome
..., and phosphorus, providing an essential source of nutrition in developing countries. Bananas are threatened by the rapidly spreading fungus Black Sigatoka that has been undermining banana production for the past three decades. It has reached almost every banana-growing region in the world and typically reduc...Rat genes increase Vitamin C in plants
...overies from his research will one day improve the nutrition of people in developing countries. "Its important that people with limited food resources get more vitamins into their diet, if they are to survive and be healthy," he says. He notes that research has provided evidence that Vitamin C and other antio...Weight more closely linked to early puberty in preteen white girls than black girls
...he dropping age of puberty was explained by better nutrition and less infectious disease. Now we are beyond that point and have about a quarter of U.S. children who are either overweight or obese, which is definitely unhealthy."......en, as now, soy was seen as an excellent source of nutrition for infants, especially for infants who are allerg...ormula has been shown to be an excellent source of nutrition for infants. Nearly 20% of all infants in the United States are fed soy formula sometime during thei...New insight into diet and colon cancer
...aiming at training statisticians in the biology of nutrition and cancer. "A lot of times, when scientists from two different fields want to collaborate, the biggest problem is that they do not speak anywhere near the same language," he says. "We spent four years learning one another's language, so we want...New research identifies why men and women may differ in food choices
..., Canada, recently reported that men and women see nutrition differently. For example, nearly three quarters of women now consider nutrition to be extremely or very important, compared with little over half of men. Forty-four percent of wom...Bipolar disorder successfully treated with nutritional supplement
...linical Psychiatry points to possible link between nutrition and mood stabilization The idea that effective mood stabilization can be achieved through the use of vitamins, trace elements and amino acids is advanced in a study of bipolar adults published in the latest issue of the Journal of Clinical Psychiat...Rutgers wins NIH grants to study how tea consumption, diet are tied to cancer
...iplinary cooperative program to study how diet and nutrition affect the genetic pathways which lead to cancer formation. In addition to the scientists mentioned earlier, participants in the planning grant include other researchers from RutgersUniversity and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jers...Rapid weight gain in infancy may lead to obesity at age 7
...said Nicolas Stettler, M.D., M.C.S.E., a pediatric nutrition specialist at Childrens Hospital and primary investigator of the study. The study looked at data for 19,000 children who were born at term gestation between 1959 and 1965 in 12 U.S. cities. The authors used the presently recommended definition for ov...New nutrition guidelines for diabetics promote emphasis on high-monounsaturated fat diet
... Garg, professor of internal medicine and chief of nutrition and metabolic diseases at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, served on the expert panel of 12 convened by the ADA that formulated the new evidence-based guidelines, which emphasize individualized diets and a variety of food choices. Gargs rese...Tufts University researchers engineer first 'custom-made' human knee ligaments from adult stem cells
... students in disciplines ranging from medicine and nutrition to veterinary medicine, dental medicine, biology, chemistry, chemical engineering, physics and computer sciences. To create the custom-made ligaments, the team of "tissue engineers" cultures cells in vitro in a specially designed bioreactor with a c...An animal study raises additional concerns about the use of dexamethasone on premature infants
...ups (six males, six females) to ensure equality in nutrition and maternal care within litters. Pups were separated into three treatment groups on PD 3, with each group represented within one litter, to control for variations in maternal behavior. On PD 8, a male and a female pup from each treatment group were ...Early malnutrition and parasitic infections reduce cognitive ability later in childhood
...n developing nations should focus on improving the nutrition and well being of children early in life. With this study, we were able to track the children as they developed from infancy through age 9. Children with severely stunted growth at age 2 scored 10 points lower on cognitive tests than their peers, whi......am Leonard of Northwestern University, who studies nutrition in Siberian populations. La Velle, and researcher Stanley Ulijaszek of the University of Oxford, are investigating similar phenomena in populations in South Africa and Australia, and New Guinea, respectively. "The cultural conditions for obesity are...