Nutrition & Life

Researchers have warned that children and adolescents must not be left behind in Australia’s COVID-19 recovery plans given the negative indirect impacts of the pandemic on this age group detailed in a new brief and research review by the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI). The COVID-19 research brief and literature review has explored the significant

Bumblebees are important pollinators because they pollinate many different plant species and are extremely resilient. They can still manage to fly at temperatures that are too cold for other pollinators. Like many other insects, they are in sharp decline. This makes it even more important to find out what bumblebees need to reproduce successfully. A

LSU Health New Orleans scientists will participate in a $170 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) study that will develop algorithms to predict individual responses to food and dietary routines. Lucio Miele, MD, PhD, Chair of Genetics, and principal investigator of the LSU Health New Orleans All of Us study site, and Judd Shellito, MD,

TamaFlex is combination of a tamarind seed extract with a turmeric extract.  The ingredient has previously been studied to provide joint comfort, flexibility, and function in healthy participants.  This new study puts the ingredient on a competitive footing with many other joint health ingredients, said Eric Anderson, managing director of NXT USA, the multinational group

Broccoli may contain advantages beyond nutrition. A molecule found in broccoli, cabbage and more digests down into DIM, a compound with brighter benefits than the name implies, such as inducing cell death in breast, prostate and colon cancer. Now, researchers are beginning to understand the mechanism underpinning this molecular behavior — information that could help

The Board of Directors is pleased and honored to announce that Robert Martindale, MD, PhD, FASPEN, has been selected to receive the 2022 ASPEN Champion Award in recognition of his significant and sustained contributions to the association. Dr. Martindale is a professor of surgery at the Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Oregon, and

Physical activity, nutrition and cognitively stimulating activities are all known to be good ways to prevent Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. And older adults at risk can access a variety of lifestyle services to that end, including diet regimes and exercises for their body and mind. Now an international team of researchers led by Université de

A new federally funded study will use machine learning to predict how an individual responds to a given diet, allowing physicians to offer patients personalized nutrition prescriptions to improve health and treat chronic diseases. Food lies at the epicenter of health and disease. But clinical nutrition is still limited to a one-size-fits-all-approach that far too

The National Institutes of Health (NIH)’s All of Us Research Program is a national effort to build a large, diverse database of 1 million or more people whom researchers can use to study health and disease. The NIH is now awarding $170 million in grant funding to centers across the country to create a new

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy (CUNY SPH) and the United States Military Academy at West Point an estimated $8.1 million over five years, pending available funds, to establish the world’s first artificial intelligence (AI) and computational modeling center for precision nutrition and

More than 1 in 5 adults is inactive in all but four states, according to new state maps of adult physical inactivity prevalence released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). For these maps, physical inactivity for adults is defined as not participating in any physical activities outside of work over the last

After completing a hospital shadowing experience at while an undergraduate student at Yale University, Michael Wang knew that he wanted to pursue medicine as a career path. Now a fourth-year medical student at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Wang is currently applying to internal medicine residency programs with a focus in primary care. Throughout

The National Institutes of Health is awarding $170 million over five years, pending the availability of funds, to clinics and centers across the country for a new study that will develop algorithms to predict individual responses to food and dietary routines. The Nutrition for Precision Health powered by the All of Us Research Program (NPH)

Most college athletes are deeply committed to their sport, but what about off the field? A college athlete’s extremely busy and routine-oriented schedule can greatly impact their nutrition status and dietary habits, including their use of supplements.  “The biggest single challenge from my experience is time. Between training, school, studies, travel, and actual games, there

The US Federal Trade Commission sent the warning letters to companies marketing dietary supplements, hebal teas and other beverages and a number of  medical devices and therapies.  The new warnings join more than 400 FTC has posted since the start of the pandemic. “Americans are still suffering from the COVID-19 pandemic, and scammers are still

CHPA recently hired supplement industry veteran Duffy MacKay, ND​​, as its senior vice president for dietary supplements.  MacKay told NutraIngredients-USA that the label effort was already well under way when he came on board. His job now is to get the word out about the availability of the resource. “We have a strategy to share

The investment will see Kemin expand its current offering of hemp-based ingredients with the addition of Driftless Extracts’ full-spectrum hemp ingredients for the health and wellness market in the United States and globally. The United States retail hemp-cannabidiol (CBD) market is currently valued at USD$803 million with growth expected to reach USD$1.2 billion in 2023,

A study recently published in the Clinical Nutrition Open Science journal examined the association between consumption of green tea and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection in the Japanese population. Study: Green tea consumption and SARS-CoV-2 infection among staff of a referral hospital in Japan. Image Credit: grafvision/Shutterstock Studies have shown that green

Chinese scientist, writing in the Journal Molecular Nutrition and Food Research, ​make a case for the traditional Chinese medicine’s use as a dietary supplement in improving sleep duration and quality. The team point to the extract’s ability to prolong the duration of total sleep (TS), slow wave sleep (SWS) and rapid eye movement sleep (REMS).

Seeking to better understand the key role the female hormone estrogen plays in maintaining energy balance and weight control, a group led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine looked into estrogen interactions with specific brain regions that provide these anti-obesity benefits. The team reveals in the journal Science Advances an estrogen-activated neurocircuit that stimulates

Victus Ars is a food product development lab that helps companies make candy, baked goods, and chewable delivery systems.  The Chicago-based lab has an ensemble of confectionery scientists–all of which just so happen to be women.  “Women, simply for the sake of having women–not as key to me. But women because they are experts at