What Is Zinc? What Are The Benefits Of Zinc?

Zinc (Zn) is a transition metal belonging to group 12 of the periodic table. As an “essential trace element” zinc has substantial biological importance for plants and animals.

Vitamin D Can Help Prevent Hypertension

The world’s largest study to examine the link between vitamin D levels and hypertension has found that low levels of Vitamin D can be a major cause of hypertension. Researchers presented their findings at the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG)…

Parental Communication Improves Students’ Diet And Physical Activity

College students eat more fruits and vegetables and exercise more on days when they communicate more with their parents, according to researchers at Penn State. “Only a third of college students consumes a diet that is consistent with national recommendations,” said Meg Small, research associate in the Prevention Research Center for the Promotion of Human Development…

Body’s Food Clock Upset By Holiday Overindulgence

Overindulgence during this feasting season can play havoc with the human body’s food clock, researchers from the University of California, San Francisco reported in PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)…

Low Fat Diet Leads To Weight Loss And Lower BMI

Decreasing overall fat in the regular diet can lead to small reductions in body weight in adults, which could be extremely meaningful on a population-wide scale, suggests a new study published in the British Medical Journal. The most acceptable proportion of total fat in the human diet is still being debated…

Fat Intake Affects Sperm Quality

â¨A study in Europe’s leading reproductive medicine journal Human Reproduction, shows that men’s diets could be linked to their sperm quality, particularly the amount and type of different fats they consume. A study in 99 American men demonstrated that a high total fat intake is linked to lower total sperm count and concentration…

Environment And Diet Leave Their Prints On The Heart

A University of Cambridge study, which set out to investigate DNA methylation in the human heart and the ‘missing link’ between our lifestyle and our health, has now mapped the link in detail across the entire human genome. The new data collected greatly benefits a field that is still in its scientific infancy and is a significant leap ahead of where the researchers were, even 18 months ago…

Potential Link Between Crohn’s Disease, Gut Microbes And Diet

“You are what you eat” is familiar enough, but how deep do the implications go? An interdisciplinary group of investigators from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have found an association between long-term dietary patterns and the bacteria of the human gut…

Study linking gut microbe type with diet has implications for fighting GI disorders

“You are what you eat” is familiar enough, but how deep do the implications go? An interdisciplinary group of investigators has found an association between long-term dietary patterns and the bacteria of the human gut.

Overall Health Affected By Viruses In The Human Gut And Their Dynamic Response To Diet

The digestive system is home to a myriad of viruses, but how they are involved in health and disease is poorly understood. In a study published online in Genome Research, researchers have investigated the dynamics of virus populations in the human gut, shedding new light on the gut “virome” and how it differs between people and responds to changes in diet…

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