High Levels Of Omega-3 Fatty Acids Found In Breast Milk Of Amerindian Women
Working with researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, anthropologists at UC Santa Barbara have found high levels of beneficial omega-3 fatty acids in the breast milk of economically impoverished Amerindian woman as compared to women in the United States. Their research appears in the current issue of the journal Maternal and Child Nutrition…
June 11, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: amerindian, breast, child, current, fatty-acids, high-levels, journal, maternal, santa, santa-barbara, the-breast, the-current, the-journal, university
UCSB Localizing Fruit, Vegetable Consumption Doesn’t Solve Environmental, Health Issues
To David Cleveland, a professor of environmental studies at UC Santa Barbara, it seemed as though Santa Barbara County would be a great example of what many are advocating as a solution to the problems of a conventional agrifood network – a local food system…
May 20, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: agrifood-network, county, david, great-example, local-food, nutrition, oncalldietitian.com, problems, santa, santa-barbara, seemed-as-though, the-problems
Scientists Demonstrate Biomagnification Of Nanomaterials In Simple Food Chain
An interdisciplinary team of researchers at UC Santa Barbara has produced a groundbreaking study of how nanoparticles are able to biomagnify in a simple microbial food chain…
December 30, 2010 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: diet, how-nanoparticles, nutrition / diet, on call diets, oncalldiets, santa, santa-barbara, simple-microbial