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UCL researchers identify strategies for minimizing weight bias among healthcare professionals

To help tackle the UK's obesity crisis, we must better educate medical professionals on weight stigma, according to the conclusions of a large-scale review led by UCL researchers.

11 Aug 2022

How ultraprocessed foods affect gut microbiome and health

Researchers describe the association between the consumption of ultraprocessed foods and chronic medical conditions.

10 Aug 2022

Prenatal bisphenol A exposure may affect brain volume in children

Scientists report that gestational exposure to low levels of bisphenol A may induce structural alterations in some fetal brain regions.

10 Aug 2022

A low-energy, high FODMAP diet in prediabetes and diabetes?

Researchers summarize the available knowledge on FODMAPs and suggest that they can play a role in the prevention and treatment of diabetes.

10 Aug 2022

Poor mental health during COVID-19 pandemic associated with weight gain in people with obesity

Over the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, almost 30% of patients with obesity gained more than 5% of their body weight, and 1 in 7 gained more than 10%.

9 Aug 2022

Alzheimer’s disease is associated with characteristic gut metabolomic signatures

Scientists review current literature associated with the role of the gut-brain axis in AD pathogenesis.

9 Aug 2022

Study estimates the environmental impact of food and drink products in a standardized way

A study estimating the environmental impact of 57,000 food products in the UK and Ireland has been published this week in the journal PNAS by an Oxford-led research team .

9 Aug 2022

Grape consumption alters gene expression in the brain and has positive effects on behavior and cognition

Recent studies released by Dr. John Pezzuto and his team from Western New England University show "astonishing" effects of grape consumption and "remarkable" impacts on health and on lifespans.

9 Aug 2022

Researchers unravel a novel molecular target of eicosapentaenoic acid

Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) is an essential nutrient belonging to the omega-3 group of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs). As the human body cannot synthesize PUFAs, dietary supplements containing EPA are required for normal physiological functions. Found abundantly in natural sources like fish, hemp oil, and linseed oil, EPA is known to exhibit anti-inflammatory, neuroprotective, and cardiovascular protective activities.

9 Aug 2022

Disruption of the circadian clocks plays a key role in weight gain

Disruption of the circadian clocks that keep the body and its cells entrained to the 24-hour day-night cycle plays a critical role in weight gain, according to a pair of studies by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators.

8 Aug 2022

College nutrition course increases healthier eating among students

Fast food and away-from-home meal consumption is associated with increasing obesity in adults; often an unhealthy dietary behavior established in the critical time frame of young adulthood.

8 Aug 2022

Biological sex differences may be the reason behind higher cancer risk among men than women

Rates of most types of cancer are higher in men than in women for reasons that are unclear. Results from a recent study published by Wiley online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, suggest that the cause may be underlying biological sex differences rather than behavioral differences related to smoking, alcohol use, diet, and other factors.

8 Aug 2022

Human intestine-on-a-chip for modeling intestinal injury associated with a pediatric inflammatory disorder

News-Medical speaks to Dr. Cicely Fadel and Amir Bein about their latest research which involved the development of an Environmental Enteric Dysfunction (EED) Chip that reveals the effects of nutrition and genetics on disease in children

8 Aug 2022

Vitamin B12, folic acid supplements could potentially halt or reverse advanced form of fatty liver disease

Scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore have uncovered a mechanism that leads to an advanced form of fatty liver disease - and it turns out that vitamin B12 and folic acid supplements could reverse this process.

5 Aug 2022

Vascular dysfunction may be the cause of metabolic changes that can lead to diabetes, study suggests

A major risk factor for diabetes, insulin resistance occurs when the cells of the body do not respond to insulin and cannot make use of the glucose (sugar) in the blood stream.

5 Aug 2022

Study explores the link between obesity-promoting eating behavior and high BMI

Some children resort to food as a comfort or eat more for other reasons. But the link between predicted obesity-promoting eating behavior and high BMI may not be what you think.

5 Aug 2022

Cognitive rehab may help older adults clear covid-related brain fog

Eight months after falling ill with covid-19, the 73-year-old woman couldn't remember what her husband had told her a few hours before. She would forget to remove laundry from the dryer at the end of the cycle. She would turn on the tap at a sink and walk away.

5 Aug 2022

Eating fish and seafood reduces risk of rheumatoid arthritis

Scientists determine the relationship between meat consumption and rheumatoid arthritis.

4 Aug 2022

Discovery could prevent insulin resistance and have significant benefits for people with type 2 diabetes

In a potential game changer for patients with type 2 diabetes, a team of researchers at the Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism Institute (DOMI) at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has identified a therapeutic target for the preservation and regeneration of beta cells (β cells) - cells in the pancreas that produce and distribute insulin.

4 Aug 2022

‘Children are not little adults’ and need special protection during heat waves

After more than a week of record-breaking temperatures across much of the country, public health experts are cautioning that children are more susceptible to heat illness than adults are — even more so when they're on the athletic field, living without air conditioning, or waiting in a parked car.

4 Aug 2022

Diet & Nutrition News and Research

Latest Diet & Nutrition News and Research

UCL researchers identify strategies for minimizing weight bias among healthcare professionals

How ultraprocessed foods affect gut microbiome and health

Prenatal bisphenol A exposure may affect brain volume in children

A low-energy, high FODMAP diet in prediabetes and diabetes?

Poor mental health during COVID-19 pandemic associated with weight gain in people with obesity

Alzheimer’s disease is associated with characteristic gut metabolomic signatures

Study estimates the environmental impact of food and drink products in a standardized way

Grape consumption alters gene expression in the brain and has positive effects on behavior and cognition

Researchers unravel a novel molecular target of eicosapentaenoic acid

Disruption of the circadian clocks plays a key role in weight gain

College nutrition course increases healthier eating among students

Biological sex differences may be the reason behind higher cancer risk among men than women

Human intestine-on-a-chip for modeling intestinal injury associated with a pediatric inflammatory disorder

Vitamin B12, folic acid supplements could potentially halt or reverse advanced form of fatty liver disease

Vascular dysfunction may be the cause of metabolic changes that can lead to diabetes, study suggests

Study explores the link between obesity-promoting eating behavior and high BMI

Cognitive rehab may help older adults clear covid-related brain fog

Eating fish and seafood reduces risk of rheumatoid arthritis

Discovery could prevent insulin resistance and have significant benefits for people with type 2 diabetes

‘Children are not little adults’ and need special protection during heat waves

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