Category: Diet / Health

Executive Director of the World Food Programme, Josette Sheeran, called on donor nations to fully fund urgent hunger needs and infrastructure rehabilitation in Haiti, which has been ravaged by a succession of tropical storms. “The misery index is rising […]

Research studies featured in the October 2008 Journal of the American Dietetic Association include: Dietary Restraint and Gestational Weight Gain Learner-Centered Nutrition Education Improves Folate Intake and Food-Related Behaviors in Non-Pregnant, Low-Inc

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Vitamin A is an essential nutrient involved in vision, growth, cellular differentiation, and immune function. Because vitamin A is fat-soluble, it is chaperoned through the body on carrier proteins.

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Going green may be heart healthy if the green you choose is pistachio nuts, according to researchers at Penn State who conducted the first study to investigate the way pistachios lower cholesterol. “We investigated mechanisms of action to explain the cholesterol-lowering effects of the pistachio diets,” says Sarah K. Gebauer, recent Penn […]

Transcriptional silencing of tumor suppressor genes by hypermethylation of CpG islands located in the promoter region is very common in human colorectal cancer. Dietary folate/vitamin B12 intake and MTHFR C677T genotype was suggested to protect against colorectal cancer. However, only a few studies have addressed the joint effects of circulating levels of folate/vitamin B12 and […]

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is alerting consumers that seven Mr. Brown instant coffee and milk tea products manufactured in China are being recalled by the King Car Food Industrial Co. Ltd. due to possible contamination with melamine. The products, manufactured by China’s Shandong Duqing Inc., are: - Mr. Brown Mandheling […]

An estimated 35.1 million Americans live in “food insecure” households, meaning that at some time during the previous year they were unable to obtain or were uncertain of having enough food to fulfill their basic needs. Consequently, many of those people seek aid from federal sources including the Food Stamp Program.

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The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has published new public health guidance on reducing the rate of premature deaths from cardiovascular disease (CVD) and other smoking-related diseases. The guidance is designed to help tackle health inequalities by making recommendations about the best ways to identify and support those most at risk and […]

The Market Leader in Providing Meal Plan and Free Meal Programs for Hospitals and Healthcare Systems FreedomPay, the leader of payment management solutions, today announced the launch of Meal Tracker 2.0, the next generation of meal plan […]

The English healthcare system is failing to encourage breast feeding and a national strategy to promote breast feeding is urgently needed, say experts on bmj.com today.

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