New website first in UK to streamline nutrition data use by researchers

Researchers at the University of Leeds are leading the development of a new website for the research and healthcare community, the first of its kind in the UK to collect comprehensively and assess…

Drinking green tea before taking supplements may offer protection from toxicity

As high doses of green tea extract supplements for weight loss become more popular, potential liver toxicity becomes a concern.

Spanish scientists modify with pulsed light the protein that causes most allergies to milk

The investigators, who belong to the University of Granada and the Azti-Tecnalia technology centre, have artificially modified a type of lactose protein called beta-lactoglobulinThese are the…

Children who are given vitamin A may be less likely to develop malaria

Large study in sub-Saharan Africa suggests vitamin A’s protective effectChildren under age 5 living in sub-Saharan Africa were 54 percent less likely to develop malaria if they had been given a…

Children’s hunger born from mothers’ trauma

Adverse Childhood Experiences, ACEs, linked to household food insecurityThe roots of children’s hunger today may stretch back, in part, to the past childhood trauma of their caregivers.

Study investigates the complex roads that lead families to food insecurity

Health and human performance research focuses on 4 risk factorsFood insecurity creates a host of unhealthy consequences. The roads leading there can be very different.

What are the health benefits of cobalt?

Find out about the potential health benefits of consuming cobalt in foods, including preventing abnormal development of red blood cells, which causes macrocytic anemia,

Illinois study describes behaviors, preferences of picky eaters

Although there’s no scientific definition of picky eating, parents say they know it when they see it.

Impact of probiotics on metabolic health in women with gestational diabetes

In a study to be presented on Feb. 5 in an oral concurrent session at 1:15 p.m.

Researchers discover brain circuit that controls compulsive overeating and sugar addiction

Compulsive overeating and sugar addiction are major threats to human health, but potential treatments face the risk of impairing normal feeding behaviors that are crucial for survival.

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