Pumpkin Pie Not A Treat For Some Allergic Children: Pediatric Hot Topics Reveal New Conclusions On Pumpkin, Caterpillars And More

Your child may be allergic to your holiday pumpkin pie, according to allergists at the annual scientific meeting of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) in Phoenix, Nov. 11-16. Hot topics discussed in pediatric allergies include pumpkin and caterpillar allergies, and outgrowing childhood allergies…

New NIST Dietary Supplement Reference Materials Could Be ‘Berry’ Useful

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers have developed new certified reference materials for measuring amounts of organic acids in dietary supplements formulated with Vaccinium berries – cranberries, blueberries and bilberries…

Low Birth Weight May Cause Lifelong Problems Processing Medications

New research has found that a mother’s poor nutrition during pregnancy and nursing can cause problems for her offspring’s ability to process medications, even well into adulthood…

Experts Call For Global Agriculture Reform To Ensure Food Security As Two Rice Conferences Open

Experts attending the International Rice Congress in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Tuesday called for imminent action to change inefficient farming methods and expand the global rice supply “in order to prevent rising poverty and hunger,” Agence France-Presse reports (11/9). The meeting is running parallel to another conference also dealing with rice this week…

Tufts Launches First-of-Its-Kind Nutrition Public Relations Certificate Program

Concurrent with the American Dietetic Association’s annual Food & Nutrition Conference & Expo, Tufts University’s Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy announced a new Nutrition Science and Communications for Public Relations Professionals certificate program…

Researcher Who Linked Fetal Nutrition To Adult Disease Honored By March Of Dimes

The world-renowned physician and professor who pioneered the theory linking fetal malnutrition to chronic adult disease will receive the March of Dimes Agnes Higgins Award for outstanding achievement in the field of maternal-fetal nutrition. Dr.

Tackling Obesity By Taxing Unhealthy Foods, Better Labelling And Restricting Advertising

The third paper in The Lancet Series on Chronic Diseases and Development examines a range of measures to combat obesity in nations of all incomes, and concludes that a combined approach of taxing unhealthy foods (and/or reducing tax on healthy foods), restricting food advertising, and improving labeling is among the most cost-effective ways to impact on obesity in all nations…

Prostate Cancer Spread May Be Halted By Soy

Northwestern Medicine researchers at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University have found that a new, nontoxic drug made from a chemical in soy could prevent the movement of cancer cells from the prostate to the rest of the body…

In UK, Everyone Eating A Healthy Diet Makes Economic Sense, But In Poorer Nations It’s Not So Simple

In the second paper in The Lancet Series on Chronic Disease and Development, experts show that in the UK everyone eating a healthy diet would deliver big health effects with minimal knock-on effects to domestic agriculture and trade. But in a middle-income country like Brazil, it’s a different story…

Drinks High In Fructose Raise Gout Risk For Women

Women who regularly consume drinks with a high fructose content have a 74% higher risk of developing gout compared to females who consume such drinks once per month or less, researchers from Boston University School of Medicine wrote in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association)…

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