Harvard scientists found people who ate bacon at least five times a week were 59% more likely to develop the bladder cancer than those who never did. The study appears in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
Researchers at the University of California, Davis, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the University of Haifa in Israel have cloned a gene from wild wheat that increases the protein, zinc and iron content in the grain, potentially offering a solution to nutritional deficiencies affecting hundreds of millions of children around the world.
Families from low income households across the England will benefit from a new scheme from Monday 27 November, giving free milk and fresh fruit and vegetables to children and mums-to-be, as Healthy Start – first piloted in Devon and Cornwall – extends to the rest of the country.
Researchers at the University of California, Davis, the US Department of Agriculture and the University of Haifa in Israel have cloned a gene from wild wheat that increases the protein, zinc and iron content in the grain, potentially offering a solution to nutritional deficiencies affecting hundreds of millions of children around the world.
New research, in “Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think,” shows that most holiday overeating, is due to the cues around us — family and friends, packages and plates, shapes and smells, distractions and distances, cupboards and containers. Dubbed the “Freakonomics of food,” the studies in “Mindless Eating” also show how we can reverse these cues to eat less and enjoy it more.
Within the next 10 years the EU-funded Diabetes Prevention study, part of an international study called TRIGR (Trial to Reduce IDDM in the Genetically at Risk), coordinated at the University of Helsinki, Finland, will generate a definite answer to the question whether early nutritional modification may prevent type 1 diabetes later in childhood.
Being exposed to high levels of nutrition before birth can influence the development of networks within the brain that regulate appetite to permanently set a pattern of appetite for life, according to researchers from the University of South Australia.
The cotton plant has long been an important source of clothing for humans, but it may soon provide them with high-protein nourishment, too. U.S. scientists say they’ve found a way to remove a toxic compound from cottonseed that’s so far prevented the high-protein seed from being eaten by people. The study was published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The National Basketball Players’ Association (NBPA) announced that they have entered into a relationship with Abbott Nutrition’s EAS? brand, a leader in sports nutrition.
An international team led by scientists from the United States and New Zealand have observed, for the first time, the bizarre deep-sea communities living around methane seeps off New Zealand’s east coast. This is the first time cold seeps have been viewed and sampled in the southwest Pacific. Cold seeps are areas of the seafloor where methane gas or hydrogen sulphide escapes from large stores deep below.