Sleep well to avoid insulin resistance

A study shows that one night’s missed sleep can cause impairment to insulin sensitivity equal to 6 months on a high-fat diet, emphasizing a need for healthy sleeping habits.

Multistate foodborne disease outbreaks sicken thousands, highlight need for action

Government and food industries can work together to make food safer. Multistate outbreaks cause more than half of all deaths in foodborne disease outbreaks despite accounting for only a tiny…

Links found between hunger and health

Recommendation that doctors screen patients for food insecurity.It may come as a surprise that, even after the Great Recession ended in 2009, almost 50 million people in the United States are food…

Duke obesity experts in special issue on food and health

Two Duke Global Health Institute faculty members have articles in the November issue of Health Affairs, which is devoted entirely to the subject of food and health, marking the first time the…

Living alone can dent healthy diets

People who live alone are more likely to have unhealthy diets lacking key foods, QUT research has found.

Obese people need more vitamin E, but actually get less

A recent study suggests that obese people with metabolic syndrome face an unexpected quandary when it comes to vitamin E – they need more than normal levels of the vitamin because their weight and…

Even a little is too much: One junk food snack triggers signals of metabolic disease

New research in The FASEB Journal suggests that biomarkers that quantify health can help inform prevention strategies for metabolic disease.

Adjusting to less food availability can impact kids negatively

Adjusting to family circumstances where there is less food available than previously can be a traumatic situation for children and can result in behavioral issues, according to new research from…

Scientists evaluate food safety practices to help support nonprofit food pantries

Researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have done an in-depth analysis of food safety at nonprofit food pantries that distribute food…

Increasing vitamin D supplementation

Osteoporosis is one of the chief reasons why the elderly often suffer broken bones from relatively minor injuries.

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