Study of 418,000 Europeans finds different foods linked to different types of stroke

Different types of food are linked to risks of different types of stroke, according to the largest study to investigate this. The study of more than 418,000 people in nine European countries investigated ischaemic stroke and haemorrhagic stroke separately.

Dutch men and Latvian women tallest in world according to 100-year global height study

Dutch men and Latvian women are the tallest on the planet, according to the largest ever study of height around the world.

Obesity on the rise in Indonesia

The ‘double burden of malnutrition.’Obesity is on the rise in Indonesia, one of the largest studies of the double burden of malnutrition in children has revealed.

Nut consumption linked to reduced death rate, study suggests

In the largest study of its kind, people who ate a daily handful of nuts were 20 percent less likely to die from any cause over a 30-year period than were those who didn’t consume nuts, say scientists from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the Harvard School of Public Health

Controversy Surrounding Nutrition For Intensive Care Patients

Patients who are fed more calories while in intensive care have lower mortality rates than those who receive less of their daily-prescribed calories, according to a recent study of data from the largest critical care nutrition database in the world…

Childhood Food Allergy In The US Affects 8 Percent Of Children Under 18

A national study of food allergies in the US, the largest of its kind, finds that more children have food allergies than previously reported…

2011 Digestive Disease Week: UNC Research Highlights

Digestive Disease Week (DDW) is the largest international gathering of physicians, researchers and academics in the fields of gastroenterology, hepatology, endoscopy and gastrointestinal surgery…