Breastfeeding All Newborns Could Save 830,000 Lives A Year

If all mothers breastfed their newborns straight away after they were born, about 830,000 lives annually would be saved, says Save the Children in a new report.

Mismatch Between Sun Exposure In Modern Life And Skin Pigmentation

As people move more often and become more urbanized, skin color — an adaptation that took hundreds of thousands of years to develop in humans — may lose some of its evolutionary advantage, according to a Penn State anthropologist…

Caffeine During Pregnancy Associated With Low Birth Weight Babies

Caffeine consumption during pregnancy is linked to low birth weight babies as well as an overall increase in the length of gestation, reveals new research published in the journal BMC Medicine…

Tool Tested For Screening Cancer Patients For Malnutrition

Considering the many things a cancer patient has to think about, it’s easy to understand why maintaining proper nutrition may not be top of the list. This can be true, too, at busy outpatient settings where it’s often difficult to find the time and resources to test cancer patients for malnutrition. However, researchers at St…

Modern Diet Ruining Our Teeth

A study of the evolution of our teeth over the last 7,500 years shows that humans today have less diverse oral bacteria than historic populations, which scientists believe have contributed to chronic oral diseases in post-industrial lifestyles…

Probiotic Helps Male Mice Build Healthy Bones

In what could be an early step toward new treatments for people with osteoporosis, scientists at Michigan State University report that a natural probiotic supplement can help male mice produce healthier bones. Interestingly, the same can’t be said for female mice, the researchers report in the Journal of Cellular Physiology…

In A Mouse Model Of Alzheimer’s Disease, A Low-Protein Diet Improved Memory And Slowed The Advance Of The Disease

Mice with many of the pathologies of Alzheimer’s Disease showed fewer signs of the disease when given a protein-restricted diet supplemented with specific amino acids every other week for four months. Mice at advanced stages of the disease were put on the new diet.

Study Of Tiny Roundworms Provides Clue To Observed Human Health Benefits From Omega Fatty Acids

A search for genes that change their levels of expression in response to nutrient deprivation has uncovered potential clues to the mechanism underlying the health benefits of omega fatty acids. In the journal Genes & Development, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers describe finding that feeding omega-6 fatty acids to C…

Safety Regulations Should Include ‘Masked’ Mold Toxins In Food

Government limits on mold toxins present naturally in grain crops should be expanded to include so-called “masked mycotoxins” that change from harmless to potentially harmful forms in the body, a new study concludes.

Clasado Announces Positive Results Of Clinical Study Of Bimuno® For Metabolic Syndrome

Clasado, the manufacturers and suppliers of Bimuno®, a unique trans-galactooligosaccharide prebiotic, have announced the results of a clinical study on the use of the Bimuno (B-GOS) to alter bacteria in the human gastrointestinal tract as a candidate to help prevent and manage Metabolic Syndrome…

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