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Kelley Thompson selected to receive 2014 PCFSN Community Leadership Award

The President's Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition (PCFSN) has selected Kelley Thompson to receive a 2014 PCFSN Community Leadership Award. The award is given to individuals and organizations who significantly improve the lives of others through sports, fitness or nutrition-related programs within local neighborhoods.

5 Jun 2014

Study examines impact of switching breakfast eating habits on weight loss

Breakfast is often said to be the most important meal of the day. Nutritionists regularly suggest it be eaten each morning for many health benefits, including weight loss and weight maintenance.

5 Jun 2014

Soda consumers may get much higher dose of harmful sugar fructose than labels show

Soda consumers may be getting a much higher dose of the harmful sugar fructose than they have been led to believe, according to a new study by the Childhood Obesity Research Center (CORC) at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC), part of Keck Medicine of USC.

5 Jun 2014

PruittHealth announces winners of 2014 Guiding Light Caregiver Award

PruittHealth recently announced the 2014 winners of the Guiding Light Caregiver Award program at their annual Spring Conference.

4 Jun 2014

Quest Products launches ProVent Rosacea Moisturizing Crème

Quest Products, Inc. announces the national launch of ProVent® Rosacea Moisturizing Creme®, a creme formulated to help reduce the appearance of skin conditions often associated with Rosacea, and other skin conditions, including skin redness, age spots, facial rashes, dry skin, and sun-related damage.

4 Jun 2014

New app for smartphones automatically calculates carbohydrate content of meal

An app for smartphones automatically calculates the carbohydrate content of a meal. The programme called "GoCARB" enables diabetics to better plan their meals and to control their blood glucose easier.

4 Jun 2014

First Edition: June 4, 2014

Today's headlines include a story about the costs some states will face in attempting to fix their online insurance marketplace.

4 Jun 2014

School gardens effective way to nudge kids toward 60 minutes of daily activity

Planting a school garden into elementary school activities can teach about nutrition while boosting physical activity and exercise.

4 Jun 2014

Interaction of stress and taste systems could help explain stress-related eating

According to new research from the Monell Center, receptors for stress-activated hormones have been localized in oral taste cells responsible for detection of sweet, umami, and bitter. The findings suggest that these hormones, known as glucocorticoids, may act directly on taste receptor cells under conditions of stress to affect how these cells respond to sugars and certain other taste stimuli.

4 Jun 2014

Parents should take initiative to make sure their hungry teens have healthy fare to eat

Refrigerators and pantries across the country are bracing for the seasonal assault from teenagers who are now done with school and will eat most of their meals at home for the summer months.

4 Jun 2014

Unsterile living conditions, untrained caregivers contribute to infections in home health settings

Millions of Americans depend on home health care services to recover from surgeries and hospital stays, as well as to manage daily life with chronic conditions.

4 Jun 2014

Yacon syrup promotes weight loss, boosts metabolism

Today, Quality Encapsulations the creators of Quality Encapsulations Pure Yacon Syrup announced that they have received hundreds of positive reviews currently on their Amazon product page.

4 Jun 2014

Viewpoints: No return to 'bad-old days' of mental health commitments; fighting over school lunches; doctors' role in reform

It is difficult to read stories about Elliot Rodger, the 22-year-old man who went on a murderous spree in Isla Vista, Calif., last month, without feeling some empathy for his parents. We know that his mother, alarmed by some of his misogynistic YouTube videos, made a call that resulted in the police visiting Rodger.

4 Jun 2014

Syngene International, Bristol-Myers Squibb extend drug discovery and development collaboration

Bristol-Myers Squibb and Syngene International, India's largest contract research organization, today announced a five-year extension of their drug discovery and development collaboration in India.

3 Jun 2014

Pathway Genomics introduces BRCA One for One program to detect breast and ovarian cancer

Pathway Genomics Corporation, a San Diego-based CLIA and CAP accredited clinical laboratory that offers genetic testing services globally, today announced it has launched BRCATrueTM, a next-generation sequencing and deletion/duplication analysis that can detect mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2, the genes linked to breast, ovarian and other types of cancer.

3 Jun 2014

Usage of marijuana impairs quality of sleep

A new study suggests that marijuana use is associated with impaired sleep quality.

3 Jun 2014

State highlights: NYC plan for treating mentally ill; Kan. town gets abortion services again; Iowa medical marijuana

Mayor Bill de Blasio has asked several of his commissioners and aides to provide him with a plan by September to reduce the rate of incarceration among New Yorkers with mental illness. The effort, which City Hall will announce on Monday, is the administration's first major criminal justice initiative. Named the Task Force on Behavioral Health and the Criminal Justice System, it will include recommendations from the police and correction commissioners, the Manhattan district attorney, hospital administrators and judges (Goldstein, 6/1).

3 Jun 2014

Survey shows "significant gap" in detection of nutrition problems in hospitalized patients

A new survey of Canadian physicians shows a "significant gap" between optimal practices to detect nutrition problems in hospitalized patients and what action is actually taking place.

3 Jun 2014

Viewpoints: GOP needs to refine its message on health law; battle over school lunches

It was supposed to be so easy this election year for Republican congressional candidates. All they would have to do was shout "repeal Obamacare!" and make a crack about government doctors and broken websites, and they could coast into office on a wave of public fury. ... But it has not quite worked out that way. ... That sentiment conflicts with the Republican playbook, which party leaders are suddenly trying to rewrite. The result has been an incoherent mishmash of positions, as candidates try to straddle a widening gap between blind hatred of health reform and the public's growing recognition that much of it is working (6/1).

3 Jun 2014

New genes involved in taste perception effective in weight loss and improve quality of life

New understanding of the genes involved in taste perception and food preferences could lead to personalised nutrition plans effective not just in weight loss but in avoiding diseases such as cancer, depression, and hypertension, Italian researchers will tell the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG) today (Monday).

2 Jun 2014

Nutrition News and Research

Kelley Thompson selected to receive 2014 PCFSN Community Leadership Award

Study examines impact of switching breakfast eating habits on weight loss

Soda consumers may get much higher dose of harmful sugar fructose than labels show

PruittHealth announces winners of 2014 Guiding Light Caregiver Award

Quest Products launches ProVent Rosacea Moisturizing Crème

New app for smartphones automatically calculates carbohydrate content of meal

First Edition: June 4, 2014

School gardens effective way to nudge kids toward 60 minutes of daily activity

Interaction of stress and taste systems could help explain stress-related eating

Parents should take initiative to make sure their hungry teens have healthy fare to eat

Unsterile living conditions, untrained caregivers contribute to infections in home health settings

Yacon syrup promotes weight loss, boosts metabolism

Viewpoints: No return to 'bad-old days' of mental health commitments; fighting over school lunches; doctors' role in reform

Syngene International, Bristol-Myers Squibb extend drug discovery and development collaboration

Pathway Genomics introduces BRCA One for One program to detect breast and ovarian cancer

Usage of marijuana impairs quality of sleep

State highlights: NYC plan for treating mentally ill; Kan. town gets abortion services again; Iowa medical marijuana

Survey shows "significant gap" in detection of nutrition problems in hospitalized patients

Viewpoints: GOP needs to refine its message on health law; battle over school lunches

New genes involved in taste perception effective in weight loss and improve quality of life

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

Expanding access to NMR with the Fourier 80 Duo

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