Rethinking Omega-3s for Health and Sustainability
The paper “Sustainable and available sources of omega-3 fatty acids for health: are the current dietary recommendations, food sources and legislation fit for purpose?…
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First-morning urine: a simpler way to track your salt and potassium?
The paper “Estimating sodium and potassium intakes in a Portuguese adult population: can first-morning void urine replace 24-hour urine samples?…
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Super-Sized Ingredient Lists: Eighty-five percent of menu items from the six highest selling fast-food restaurants in the USA are ultra-processed
The paper “Eighty-five percent of menu items from the six highest selling fast-food restaurants in the USA are ultra-processed“, published in Public Health Nutrition, has been chosen as the latest Editorial Highlight and is freely available to download for one month.…
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Navigating the Baby Food Aisle: Is All ‘Ready-to-Eat’ Also ‘Ready-to-Nourish’?
The blog is written by authors, Dr. Luiz Ceccon, MD and Dr. Maryam Kebbe, PhD, Faculty of Kinesiology, University of New Brunswick, and is published by the Journal of Nutritional Science.…
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JNS: Now the official journal of the IUNS-ICN 2025
As of Nutrition Society’s summer meeting in 2025, I am two years into my tenure as the editor in chief of Journal of Nutritional Sciences. My vision for the journal is to place less emphasis on novelty than cutting edge journals, but to support the publication of robust, reinforcing research that advances nutritional science (this particularly includes negative findings and paradigm challenges). As the Nutrition Society has a portfolio of journals, it has also been a priority for me to build to build a distinct identifty, profile and editorial board from our sister journals The British Journal of Nutrition and Public Health Nutrition.
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Can Human Milk Sugars Help Soothe IBS? Exploring the Gut Microbiome’s Sweet Spot
If you've ever cared for a baby, you might know that human milk contains more than just nutrients—it’s packed with complex sugars called human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs). These aren't digestible by infants but serve as food for beneficial gut bacteria, helping to shape a healthy microbiome from day one.
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Can Vitamin D Improve Iron Levels in Older People? A New Study Says No
Vitamin D is often hailed as a ‘wonder’ nutrient, credited with benefits ranging from bone health to immune support. But could it also help with iron absorption, particularly for older people? A recent clinical trial—the BEST-D study—set out to answer this question. The verdict? Vitamin D supplementation is unlikely to make a meaningful difference to iron levels in older people.
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Omega-3 Supplements and Autism: A Closer Look at the Evidence
The Paper of the Month for March is ‘Impact of omega-3 fatty acid supplementation on clinical manifestations in autism spectrum disorders: an umbrella review of meta-analyses“.…
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Public appetite for food policy reform: What are people really hungry for?
Unhealthy diets are a major contributor to poor health worldwide, driving rising rates of obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. In response, many governments have introduced policies to improve the environments in which people make everyday food choices—such as regulating child-directed food marketing, taxing ultra-processed products, or enhancing the nutritional quality of school meals.
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Slashing the Sodium in Fast-foods: A Targeted Approach
Fast-food - it’s quick, convenient, and hyper-palatable. Part of its palatability comes from the generous amounts of added sodium [dietary salt]. For example, a hamburger with fries can easily provide more than a person’s daily upper limit for sodium of 2,000mg. Unfortunately, too much sodium is linked to high blood pressure which is associated with cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of preventable death in Aotearoa, New Zealand (NZ) and globally, and sales data shows our appetite for fast-food is increasing.
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Fetal Dependency on Placental Fatty Acid Transport During Pregnancy
Optimal growth of the human fetus and the newborn infant is associated with better health and neurodevelopment in infancy and also the benefits of early growth persist into adult life and during aging.
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Drinking for Two: Breastfeeding the Developing Baby’s Gut Microbiota
When a mother breastfeeds her baby, she supports both the development of her child and the microbes in the child’s gut. Breast milk contains unique carbohydrates called human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) that cannot be digested by the baby. Instead, these HMOs reach the gut to be used by the gut microbes. Bifidobacteria, among other gut microbes, help degrade HMOs and produce beneficial product in the baby’s gut.
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Growing a Reputation for Quality: One Year in as Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Nutritional Science
“Professor Bernard Corfe’s strategy for JNS will be to continue to build on JNS’s reputation for quality, to publish work supporting scientific reproducibility (and to support research identifying irreproducibility), and to continue to emphasise the critical place of this mission in a changing world of scientific publishing.”…
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Sexual dimorphism in the context of nutrition and health
The way we respond to the various constituents of our diet may differ depending on whether we are males or females. Given that females have been largely underrepresented in such research to date, aspects of the diet we believe to be beneficial or deleterious may not hold true for half of the population. These so called ‘sex differences’ relating to diet are further complicated by the ageing process. For example, reproductive ageing in females leads to the menopausal transition, altering the hormone profile and key processes such as metabolism. As such it is important as nutritional researchers that we comprehend how components of our diet are influenced by sex across the lifespan.
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Can individuals with obesity be malnourished? Why it’s hard to identify
When we think of malnutrition, we often picture individuals who are underweight or experiencing hunger, struggling with inadequate levels of essential nutrients. However, malnutrition can also exist in individuals with obesity. Many people in this population may have a relatively low intake of essential nutrients, especially during illness, leading to physiological changes often overlooked in clinical assessments. Identifying protein-energy malnutrition in individuals with obesity is challenging due to distinctive physical and physiological characteristics, including increased body weight, adipose tissue dysfunction and metabolic dysregulation presented as systemic inflammation.
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Reducing children’s exposure to unhealthy food marketing: What policies are most effective?
Childhood obesity is a growing concern and is driven in part by widespread exposure to unhealthy food marketing. Various policies could help to reduce this exposure, targeting specific products, settings and marketing mediums, such as TV and outdoor signs.
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Encouraging the consumption of pulses with cooking suggestions and recipes
Pulses, including dry beans, chickpeas and lentils, are healthy, sustainable, and low cost. Pulses, however, are not currently consumed as frequently or by as many people as is currently recommended for health benefits or for planetary gain. We sought to understand why this was, what could be done to encourage pulse consumption, and whether cooking suggestions and recipes can help.
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Composition of weight gain during infancy catch-up growth in term low birth weight infants: Fat or lean mass?
Catch-up growth, i.e., accelerated gain in weight and length to attain a size in accordance with genetic potential is a common phenomenon in infants who are born at full term with low birth weight (mostly as a consequence of intrauterine growth restriction). Previous studies have indicated that rapid growth during infancy may be associated with greater adiposity and adverse metabolic consequences in later life.
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Recent evidence on selenoneine highlights the need to consider selenium speciation in research and dietary guidelines
There are numerous essential vitamins and minerals that play crucial roles in maintaining our health and wellbeing. Among these, selenium stands out as a lesser known yet exceedingly important micronutrient.
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Navigating nutrition evidence for individualised care
Diet is key to the maintenance of health and crucial in the prevention and management of many diseases. Modified nutrient intake is sometimes essential to prevent deficiency, optimise development and health, or manage symptoms and disease progression. A new Position Paper (Hickson et al 2024) from the Academy of Nutrition Sciences (ANS) provides a state-of-the-art summary of how evidence-based practice, with a particular emphasis on research evaluation, is used to inform nutrition interventions for individuals.
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Is it really true that the older and thinner you are, the better? Older people need to be alert to sarcopenia
There is a Chinese proverb that says, "It's hard to buy old people being thin with money." We previously thought that for older people, thinness is a sign of health. However, scientific research shows that this view is incorrect.
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Why should we offer free meals to all children at school?
The importance of healthy dietary habits, especially in early life, is crucial for overall nutrition, health, and development in children. School Food Programs (SFP) have gained significant attention as drivers of healthy eating and academic performance
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Coprococcus in your gut: the secret of happiness?
Today it is well established that our physical wellbeing partially depends on the trillions of microbes in our gut, the intestinal microbiome. At same time, there is emerging evidence that these unicellular lifeforms can also influence our mental status and cognitive performance.
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Meet Bernard Corfe: Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Nutritional Science
I was always interested in core biological processes, from school years, genetics was the area of biology I found most inspiring and through my BSc and PhD in molecular microbiology, I was fascinated by the relationship between what is coded and how life unravels and uses that code.
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Always tired? Read how nutrition can influence fatigue
Fatigue is a symptom resulting from the weakening or depletion of one's physical and/or mental resources, ranging from a general state of lethargy to a specific, work-induced burning sensation within one's muscles. It is a highly prevalent feeling but still remains an often-neglected unmet clinical need.
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From Farm to Mouth: How Food Policy Groups Are Transforming Food Systems in High-Income Countries
Today’s food systems in high-income countries face several challenges, including a lack of resiliency, resulting in an inconsistent food supply and changing food prices, especially during crises. When faced with this type of challenge, high-income countries tend to rely on short term food relief that doesn’t always meet people’s nutritional needs or choices. In addition, limited access to nutrition education and cooking skills programs makes it hard for those most at risk to use what food they do have effectively. To address these challenges, a focus on local or regional food systems is considered one way to boost food system resilience.
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Encouraging veggies over fries!
What we eat is influenced by a myriad of external factors: our mood, the occasion, friends and family, new food trends, the location, food presentation, to name only a few. We tend to choose our food differently at a wedding reception surrounded by people we are meeting for the first time than at a garden BBQ with family and friends after a rough day at work.
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Whiskering towards precision: unleashing the purrr-fect stable isotope methodology to determine amino acid requirements in cats
Dogs may be our best friends, but cats have a plan to challenge that notion! They need our help to thrive, and it starts with good food.
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Children who meet more UK Government dietary guidelines have better cardiometabolic health as young adults
The Paper of the Month for July is ‘Prospective association between adherence to UK dietary guidelines in school-age children and cardiometabolic risk markers in adolescence/early adulthood in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) cohort'.
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Intestinal microbiota alterations caused by food residues could impact our health
The Paper of the Month for May is ‘Microbial gut dysbiosis induced by xenobiotics in model organisms and the relevance of experimental criteria: a minireview'. The blog is written by the below authors and the paper is published in the Gut Microbiome, and is free to access for one month.
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From Overeating to Brain Aging: How diet and obesity impact the gut-brain interaction
With the ongoing global epidemic of obesity and increasing prevalence of dementia, evaluating the impact of over-eating and different diets on brain structure and function becomes increasingly important. Recent studies suggest that the gut microbiota and metabolic changes can impact with cognitive health. In this paper of the month, we were interested in the impact of obesity and diet on the gut-brain axis.
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The double-edged sword of keeping livestock: balancing nutritional benefits with disease risks in poor nations
In many low- and lower-middle-income countries, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), where mixed crop-livestock farming is widely practiced, livestock keeping provides income, food, nutrition and other benefits for the rural poor. The nutritional benefits of livestock keeping are particularly important since malnutrition continues to cause nearly half of annual global child deaths, and can have lasting effects on the physical growth and cognitive development of millions of surviving children.
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A greener deal for ready meals
Ready meals are a popular choice in the UK, and it is estimated that almost 90% of us eat them. Many ready meals can be classified as ultra-processed foods, which often have multiple added ingredients such as sugar, salt, fat, artificial colours, or preservatives, and consumption of ready meals has been associated with an increased risk of obesity. However, the jury is still out on the nutritional quality of ready meals.
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Celebrating International Women’s Day – Q&A with Dr Charlotte Evans
Working as a female nutritional scientist, there are so many amazing female leaders to inspire those coming up behind.
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‘Everything is connected’
Professor Andrea Azcarate-Peril tells the marathon story of her journey from Argentina, via North Carolina, to becoming Editor-in-Chief of Gut Microbiome, an open access journal co-published by Cambridge University Press and The Nutrition Society
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New study highlights how little we know about the vitamin D status of ethnic minorities in Ireland
The study provides the most up to date findings on vitamin D intake and factors affecting vitamin D status of adults in Ireland, and has been published in the British Journal of Nutrition.
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The health effects of alternative plant-based meats on inflammation
The Paper of the Month for February is 'Assessing the effects of alternative plant-based meats v. animal meats on biomarkers of inflammation: a secondary analysis of the SWAP-MEAT randomized crossover trial' and the blog is written by author Anthony Crimarco, Ph.D. and is published by the Journal of Nutritional Science and is free to access for one month.
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Excess body weight exacerbates the harmful effect of alcohol on cancer risk
Excess body weight and alcohol consumption are both modifiable risk factors for many adverse health outcomes, including cancer. Alcohol is classified as Group 1 carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), and alcohol consumption is associated with a higher incidence of seven cancer types. Excess body weight is also associated with at least 13 cancer types. Although these factors have been known to be linked with cancer for many years, very few studies have investigated the joint association between alcohol consumption and excess body weight with cancer risk.
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Structural racism impacts African Americans’ ability to eat a healthy diet. What can we do as nutrition researchers and practitioners?
Nutrition researchers and public health practitioners have become increasingly focused on structural racism following protests against racial injustice in 2020 and the disparities in covid-19 mortality experienced by marginalized groups. Structural racism consists of overlapping systems of discrimination in society such as in policing, housing, and employment. These systems also affect marginalized groups’ ability to access healthful food. For example, African Americans are more likely to live in areas with higher densities of fast-food restaurants and may not have access to full-service grocery stores. Differences in financial resources may also impact their ability to pay for healthy food. Providing nutrition education alone can be insensitive in the face of these obstacles.
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Industrialized Foods – Why can it be a risky option in food introduction?
There is evidence that the consumption of commercial food products for children is highly prevalent in the world, surpassing the consumption of homemade food in some situations. While such products may have practical advantages, such as time saving in food preparation, there are concerns about nutrient composition.
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Nearly half of NZ babies are introduced to solids too early increasing risks of health issues
New research has revealed that nearly half of New Zealand babies are being introduced to food earlier or later than is recommended putting them at greater risk for ongoing health issues including obesity, anaemia and growth and developmental issues.…
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Dietary protein requirements and recommendations – why is it so complex?
The Paper of the Month for April is ‘Dietary protein requirements and recommendations for healthy older adults: a critical narrative review of the scientific evidence‘ and the blog is written by author Lars Holm, Yusuke Nishimura, Grith Højfeldt, Leigh Breen and Inge Tetens published by Nutrition Research Reviews and is free to access for 1 month.…
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Food Labeling is Lacking in Online Grocery Retailers
Nutrition facts, ingredient lists, and allergens—all FDA-required information on food labels—are frequently absent when shoppers buy food online Online food retailers do not consistently display nutrition information on their websites—and U.S.…
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Are potatoes a healthy vegetable option for the cardiometabolic health of adolescent girls?
The Paper of the Month for October is ‘Potato consumption is not associated with elevated cardiometabolic risk in adolescent girls‘ from the British Journal of Nutrition and is free to access for 1 month.…
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The vegan diet – not always a one size fits all approach
The rise of the vegan lifestyle Public Health Nutrition Editorial Highlight: Pattern analysis of vegan eating reveals healthy and unhealthy patterns within the vegan diet.…
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A crisis within crisis! The existing burden of child under nutrition to be exacerbated by COVID-19-pandemic. How to react?
Public Health Nutrition Editorial Highlight: The risk to child nutrition during and after COVID-19 pandemic: what to expect and how to respond.…
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Infant Formula Websites Overtly Discourage Breastfeeding
Direct-to-consumer messages on company websites promote benefits of formula feeding, position it as superior to breastmilk An analysis of websites for baby formula manufacturers finds that their messages and images discourage breastfeeding while touting the benefits of formula, despite public health efforts to support breastfeeding and informed choice.…
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Tuning in to digestion with MRI
The Paper of the Month for September is ‘Monitoring food digestion with magnetic resonance techniques‘ from the Proceedings of Nutrition Society and is free to access for 1 month.…
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Reducing ultra-processed foods in your diet is an effective way to lower your intake of saturated fats
Ultra-processed foods are industrial formulations of processed food substances (like oils, fats, sugars, starch, protein isolates) that contain little or no whole food and typically include flavorings, colorings, emulsifiers and other cosmetic additives. These characteristics in addition to their low-cost, convenience and aggressive marketing make them very appealing to eat. Almost irresistible.
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How a nutrition-sensitive agroecological intervention improved women’s mental health
Maria is a smallholder farmer in rural Singida, Tanzania. We worked together for the past few years on the Singida Nutrition and Agroecology Project (SNAP-Tz), a nutrition-sensitive agroecological intervention that sought to improve children’s diet. In it, farmers learned about and experimented with sustainable agriculture, nutrition, and gender equity using an integrated and participatory curriculum
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Babies not meeting infant feeding guidelines may be at greater risk for childhood obesity
New research reveals that a significant number of babies are not being fed in accordance with New Zealand’s infant feeding guidelines and this puts them at greater risk for childhood obesity.…
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Food insecurity and hunger drives higher levels of fast-food consumption in adolescents
Fast-food is sold in restaurants and snack bars as a quick meal or to be taken out, and often consists of low-nutrient and energy-dense foods. Consequently, fast-food consumers tend to have higher intakes of energy, fat, saturated fatty acids, trans fatty acids, sugar and sodium, as well as lower intakes of fibre, macronutrients and vitamins. This means that regular fast-food consumers have a higher risk of multiple physical and mental health complications. Worryingly, among adolescents the consumption of fast food is on the rise across the globe.
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Can we nudge populations’ diets?
The challenges in improving nations’ diets persist. As we try to overcome these, an area that is gaining traction is nudging. But can nudge-based interventions change food choice, and enable better decisions when it comes to choosing what to eat? And actually, how effective are they in real-world settings?
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Are the beneficial effects of dietary nitrate on blood pressure dependent on bacteria in our mouth?
The Paper of the Month for April is ‘The Role of Dietary Nitrate and the Oral Microbiome on Blood Pressure and Vascular tone’ and is free to access for 1 month.…
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Better diet leads to better population health and has economic benefits – but it takes time
The Paper of the Month for March 2021 is ‘Diet quality improvement and 30-year population health and economic outcomes: a microsimulation study’ from Public Health Nutrition and is free to access for 1 month.…
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Study shows Latino families more likely to have purchased toddler milk
Though multiple national health organizations recommend against giving toddler milk – a nutrient-fortified drink for children ages 12 months to 3 years that often contains added sugars – to young children, a new study suggests Latino families may be at particularly high risk for purchasing the product.…
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Changing WIC food packages & the impact on childhood obesity by family income
Public Health Nutrition Editorial Highlight: The role of income and neighbourhood poverty in the association between the 2009 Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) food package change and child obesity among WIC-participating children in Los Angeles County, 2003–2016.…
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Higher long term egg consumption increases diabetes risk in Chinese adults
The association between egg consumption and diabetes is inconclusive. In the USA, egg consumption has been shown to increase the risk of diabetes. However, studies on egg consumption and diabetes are limited in Asia with conflicting results.
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Creating a healthier food environment in Singapore: Analysis
Public Health Nutrition Editorial Highlight: ‘Identifying implementation gaps and priorities for the Singapore government to improve food environment policies: perspectives from a local expert panel’ In March 2018 we invited a panel of 20 national experts in public health nutrition or chronic disease prevention to evaluate the actions of the Singapore’s governments in creating healthier food environments.…
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Summertime and the Learning is Easy: The World Food Programme Nutrition and Health Summer Camps in Lebanon
October’s Paper of the Month is from the British Journal of Nutrition ‘Assessment of the World Food Programme Summer Camps in Lebanon: a model of effective interventions for vulnerable adolescents’ and is free to access.…
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Vitamin D supplementation to reduce COVID-19 morbidity in older adults
September’s Paper of the Month is from the Journal of Nutritional Science ‘COVID-19: the older adult and the importance of vitamin D sufficiency’ and is free to access.…
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Food brands don’t just use social media to advertise – it’s for lobbying too
Public Health Nutrition Editorial Highlight: ‘How food companies use social media to influence policy debates: a framework of Australian ultra-processed food industry Twitter data’ It’s well-known that large food companies lobby governments to advance their own interests.…
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Together with your neighbours towards healthy and environmentally sustainable diets!
Public Health Nutrition Editorial Highlight: ‘Operationalising the health aspects of sustainable diets: a review’ Did you know that in Europe 25% of the chronic non-communicable diseases are attributable to unhealthy diets, and that our food production is responsible for 25% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions?…
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Changing the beverage landscape on post-secondary campuses: The University of British Columbia Healthy Beverage Initiative
Public Health Nutrition Editorial Highlight: ‘The University of British Columbia healthy beverage initiative: changing the beverage landscape on a large post-secondary campus’ Sugar sweetened beverages are the single-largest contributor of added sugar in the diet.…
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Improving child diets through working and learning together in community demonstration gardens
Public Health Nutrition Editorial Highlight: ‘Demonstration gardens improve agricultural production, food security and preschool child diets in subsistence farming communities in Panama’.…
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Togetherness or Necessity: Why do families with preschoolers have family meals?
Family meals promote healthy eating habits, increased well-being and improved academic outcomes among children and adolescents. Despite these benefits, families typically eat together less as children age and become busy with after school jobs and activities.…
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Papers published about the Role of Nutrition in Healthy Aging – Translating Science into Policy for Health Promotion
A new FENS conference report has published today in the Journal of Nutritional Science looking at the role of Nutrition in Healthy Ageing: ‘From lifespan to healthspan: the role of Nutrition in healthy ageing’.…
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Food industry interfered with the development of a new nutrition labeling policy in Colombia
According to a new study published in Public Health Nutrition, the political strategies of food industry actors in Colombia may have negatively influenced the development of a new front-of-pack nutrition labeling in the country, thus delaying the introduction of the measure to prevent and reduce diseases and deaths amongst the Colombian population.…
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Education and Access: How nutrition education classes can enhance a CSA program for low-income families
Public Health Nutrition Editorial Highlight: ‘Perceptions of nutrition education classes offered in conjunction with a community supported agriculture intervention among low-income families’.…
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Confused by whole grain labels on food packaging? Study finds you’re not alone.
Whole grain labels on cereal, bread, and crackers are confusing to consumers and could cause them to make fewer healthy choices, according to the results from a study in Public Health Nutrition that tested whether people are able pick out the healthier, whole grain option based on food package labels.…
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Coca-Cola Front Group Tried to Obscure Coke’s Funding & Key Role, Study Says
Coca-Cola Co. and academics at its front group Global Energy Balance Network (GEBN) tried to obscure Coke’s central role and funding for the group, according to a new study published today in Public Health Nutrition.…
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Meet the Gut Microbiome Editorial Board: Andrea Azcarate-Peril
Welcome to the new blog post series introducing the Editorial Board Members of Gut Microbiome (GMB) – a new Open Access journal published in partnership with Cambridge University Press and the Nutrition Society.…
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Malnutrition & Obesity – is personalization the answer?
July’s Paper of the Month is from the Proceedings of the Nutrition Society and is entitled: ‘Current metabolic perspective on malnutrition in obesity: towards more subgroup-based nutritional approaches?’ …
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Why the UK Government should not delay on new marketing restrictions for high, fat, salt and sugar foods
Public Health Nutrition Editorial Highlight: ‘Awareness of marketing for high fat, salt, or sugar (HSFF) foods, and the association with higher weekly consumption among adolescents: A rejoinder to the UK Government’s consultations on marketing regulation’.…
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Food for thought: Public libraries addressing child food insecurity and more
Public Health Nutrition Editorial Highlight: ‘More to Offer than Books: Stakeholder Perceptions of a Public Library-Based Meal Program’
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Processed supermarket meals gives food for thought
With more people eating at home due to COVID-19, New Curtin research published in Public Health Nutrition has found more than half of Australian supermarket own brand chilled ready-made meals are unhealthy and 94 percent are ‘ultra-processed’ – yet more than 80 percent are labelled with a ‘pass mark’ under the Health Star Rating system.…
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Early-life programming of adipose tissue
The Nutrition Society Paper of the Month for May is from Nutritional Research Reviews and is entitled ‘Early-life programming of adipose tissue’ by Ericka Moreno-Mendez, Saray Quintero-Fabian, Cristina Fernandez-Mejia and Maria-Luisa Lazo-de-la-Vega-Monroy.…
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The Eurasian lactase persistence variant LCT-13910 C/T is associated with vitamin D levels in individuals living at high latitude, more so than exposure to sunlight
The Nutrition Society Paper of the Month for March is from the Journal of Nutritional Science and is entitled: The Eurasian lactase persistence variant LCT-13910 C/T is associated with vitamin D levels in individuals living at high latitude, more so than exposure to sunlight by Amir Moghaddam.…
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Quick Fire Q&A with Christine Edwards – New EiC of Nutrition Research Review
Quick fire Q&A with new EiC for NRR
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Maternal dietary selenium intake is associated with increased gestational length and decreased risk for preterm delivery.
The Nutrition Society Paper of the Month for January is from The British Journal of Nutrition and is entitled: ‘Maternal dietary selenium intake is associated with increased gestational length and decreased risk of preterm delivery’ by Malin Barman, Anne Lise Brantsæter, Staffan Nilsson & Margaretha Haugen, Thomas Lundh, Gerald F.…
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Vitamins C and E may influence β-carotene’s effect on mortality in male smokers
The effect of β-carotene supplementation on total mortality in male smokers depends on the smoking background and on the levels of vitamin C and E intakes according to a study published in Journal of Nutrition Science, read the article here.…
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Junk food brands influence parents through kids’ sport sponsorship
A new Public Health Nutrition study, has found that when unhealthy food and drink brands sponsor kids’ sport programs parents are more likely to recognise, choose and view these brands in a positive light.
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Ad Spending on Toddler Milks Increased Four-Fold, U.S. Sales of These Products More than Doubled from 2006 to 2015
Formula companies quadrupled their advertising of toddler milk products over a ten-year period, contributing to a 2.6 times increase in amount of toddler milk sold, according to a new paper published in Public Health Nutrition
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Effects of family income and conditional cash transfers on household food insecurity
The Nutrition Society Paper of the Month for December is from Public Health Nutrition and is entitled ‘Effects of family income and conditional cash transfers on household food insecurity: evidence from a longitudinal study in Northeast Brazil’ by Poliana A Palmeira, Rosana Salles-Costa, and Rafael Pérez-Escamilla.
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Metabolic phenotyping- a tool that could help deliver personalised nutrition
The Nutrition Society Paper of the Month for November is from Nutrition Research Reviews and is entitled ‘Metabotyping and its role in nutrition research' by Lorraine Brennan and Elaine Hillesheim.
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New journal to explore the “mysterious ecosystem” in our guts
A new open access journal from Cambridge University Press, published in partnership with The Nutrition Society, will explore the vital interaction between people and the complex community of microorganisms that live in our digestive systems The journal, Gut Microbiome, will look at the factors that influence this gut microbiota and how they in turn affect our health and development.…
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Development of a diet quality score reflecting the 2017 French dietary guidelines
The Nutrition Society Paper of the Month for October is from the British Journal of Nutrition and is entitled ‘Programme National Nutrition Santé – guidelines score 2 (PNNS-GS2): development and validation of a diet quality score reflecting the 2017 French dietary guidelines’
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Kids’ fast food meals no healthier despite high rates of childhood obesity: new research
New research by Cancer Council NSW, published in Public Health Nutrition has revealed that children’s fast food meals sold in NSW have not improved between 2011 and 2016 even though one in four children are overweight or obese.
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Could cholecalciferol (vitamin D3) deficiency explain the extinction of the dinosaurs?
The Nutrition Society Paper of the Month for September is from the Journal of Nutritional Science and is entitled ‘Why did the dinosaurs become extinct? Could cholecalciferol (vitamin D3) deficiency be the answer?’.
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Do infants learn lasting lessons about healthy eating while nursing?
Public Health Nutrition Editorial Highlight: 'Maternal diet during lactation and breast-feeding practices have synergistic association with child diet at 6 years'
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Canadian children’s diet quality during school hours improves over 11-year period
Surveys taken 11 years apart show a 13 per cent improvement in the quality of foods consumed by Canadian children during school hours, a new study published in Public Health Nutrition has found.
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Green banana biomass: a new option to improve glucose control and body composition in pre-diabetes and diabetes
A study conducted at the Universidade Federal de São Paulo, and published in the British Journal of Nutrition demonstrates benefits of green banana biomass consumption in subjects with pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes.
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Different physiological mechanisms underlie an adverse cardiovascular disease risk profile in men and women
The Nutrition Society Paper of the Month for August is from Proceedings of the Nutrition Society and is entitled ‘Different physiological mechanisms underlie an adverse cardiovascular disease risk profile in men and women’.
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Healthier diets without smaller environmental footprint in a Dutch cohort
Public Health Nutrition Editorial Highlight: 'Are our diets getting healthier and more sustainable? Insights from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition – Netherlands (EPIC-NL) cohort'
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Promoting Healthy Beverages Through Child Care Holds Promise in Fostering Healthier Beverage Choices and Weight
The Nutrition Society Paper of the Month for July is from Public Health Nutrition and is entitled ‘Effects of a multipronged beverage intervention on young children’s beverage intake and weight: a cluster-randomized pilot study’.
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Caffeinated Energy Drinks—Hype or Harmful?
Public Health Nutrition Editorial Highlight ‘Caffeinated energy drinks: adverse event reports to the US Food and Drug Administration and the National Poison Data System, 2008 to 2015’
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Concerning gaps in child and adolescent nutrient intake data across Europe
Malnutrition, both in the form of micronutrient deficiency and excess energy and macronutrient intake, is a major issue in populations across Europe. It affects individual health outcomes in children and adolescents, which has implications for health problems in adulthood.
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Government and the food and drink industry: an unhealthy relationship
Public Health Nutrition Editorial Highlight ‘Seven-year itch: The UK Government’s difficult relationship with the food and drink industry since ‘Healthy Lives, Healthy People: A call to action on obesity in England (2011)’ Authors Stuart W. Flint, Emily J. Oliver discuss their research below.
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Is low vitamin D during pregnancy predictive of postpartum depression?
Public Health Nutrition Editorial Highlight ‘Association of antepartum vitamin D deficiency with postpartum depression: a clinical perspective' Author Mercedes J Szpunar discusses their research below.
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The SDI: a new index for assessing the sustainability of dietary patterns
The Nutrition Society Paper of the Month for June is from the British Journal of Nutrition and is entitled ‘Development and validation of an individual sustainable diet index in the NutriNet-Santé study cohort’ by Authors Louise Seconda, Julia Baudry, Philippe Pointereau, Camille Lacour, Brigitte Langevin, Serge Hercberg, Denis Lairon, Benjamin Allès and Emmanuelle Kesse-Guyot.
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The need of an ethics of planetary sustainability
How long will humankind survive? Besides the fact that we have been able to eliminate ourselves with nuclear weapons for decades, even without a third world war, the challenge to take care of the resources of our planet remains; we need to use them in a way that our children and their children can have a place on Earth as well. In this blog post Andreas Losch discusses his recent review article in the International Journal of Astrobiology, The need of an ethics of planetary sustainability
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Conversations with Authors: Institutionalized Police Brutality
This is the first post in our new series: “Conversations with Authors.” For our inaugural post, we asked Dr. Vesla Weaver to meet (virtually) with Dr.…
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Maria is a smallholder farmer in rural Singida, Tanzania. We worked together for the past few years on the Singida Nutrition and Agroecology Project (SNAP-Tz), a nutrition-sensitive agroecological intervention that sought to improve children’s diet. In it, farmers learned about and experimented with sustainable agriculture, nutrition, and gender equity using an integrated and participatory curriculum
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Classical Review has recently expanded its standard work of publishing reviews and notices of single books to include also longer pieces covering more – and more varied – material.…
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The Statues from the Antikythera Shipwreck, 125 Years Later
In the mid-1st century BCE, a freighter laden with Greek art was sailing westward in the Mediterranean when it crashed and rapidly foundered, taking some of its crew and passengers down with it.…
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What is Community Archaeology’s Value for Our Discipline’s Future?
Research programs that are deeply engaged with, and responsive to, communities require significant investment to build and sustain. Why, then, should archaeologists — often constrained by time and resources–commit to community archaeology?…
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The need of an ethics of planetary sustainability
How long will humankind survive? Besides the fact that we have been able to eliminate ourselves with nuclear weapons for decades, even without a third world war, the challenge to take care of the resources of our planet remains; we need to use them in a way that our children and their children can have a place on Earth as well. In this blog post Andreas Losch discusses his recent review article in the International Journal of Astrobiology, The need of an ethics of planetary sustainability
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Nothing-Burger? U.S. Obligation to Defend the Philippines in the South China Sea – Part 1
It is an article of faith among ordinary Filipinos that American troops will die with Filipino troops defending Philippine claims to the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea (SCS).…
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The impact of parasite infection on mental illness
More and more research is finding inflammation as a potential contributing factor towards to the development of various mental illnesses. A systematic review was conducted to determine the association between parasitic infection and mental illnesses in various African populations. Two parasite groups were evaluated; helminths and protozoans, and four mental illness classifications; depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, schizotypal disorders and unspecified mental illnesses.
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Conversations with Authors: Institutionalized Police Brutality
This is the first post in our new series: “Conversations with Authors.” For our inaugural post, we asked Dr. Vesla Weaver to meet (virtually) with Dr.…
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Reflections on House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths
The March article of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International is the first blog of the series. The blog is written by Dr Dami Ajayi, Specialty Doctor, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Trainee/Blog Editor, BJPsych International.…
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The 33%: Q&A with Dame Anna Dominiczak
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Medieval Ethiopia, ‘Antiquity’, and African Archaeology
The opportunity to showcase some of the exciting archaeological research currently underway on medieval Ethiopia in a journal as widely read as Antiquity is important.
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