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Water and plain milk are the healthiest drinks for kids, say experts
Date: 21/02/2025
"Choosing healthy beverages for children is just as important as choosing healthy foods..."
3 Foods That Age Your Body and Brain
Date: 19/02/2025
Aging is an inevitable part of life, but the rate at which we age—both physically and cognitively—can be influenced by various factors, including our dietary choices.
Artificial sweetener triggers insulin spike, leading to blood vessel inflammation in mice
Date: 19/02/2025
Aspartame triggers increased insulin levels in animals, which in turn contributes to atherosclerosis—buildup of fatty plaque in the arteries, which can lead to higher levels of inflammation and an increased risk of heart attacks and stroke over time.
Ever Wonder Why You Can Always Find Room for Dessert?
Date: 14/02/2025
How a novel brain circuit drives sugar cravings after a satisfying meal.
A Suggested Revolution in Parkinson’s Research
Date: 07/02/2025
We are so obsessed with finding the cure to Parkinson’s and other chronic illnesses that research priorities often ignore the needs of those who will not live long enough to experience that magic bullet.
Seed oils are toxic, says Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – but it’s not so simple
Date: 07/02/2025
Industrial seed oils (found in margarines & other ultra-processed foods) are a 'hot topic' in the ongoing debates about how 'dietary fats' affect human health. While most dietary guidelines still promote them as 'healthier' than traditional fats like butter and other animal fats, the current evidence paints a rather more complicated picture...
Low vitamin D during first trimester linked to preterm birth risk
Date: 03/02/2025
This research indicates that vitamin D levels—along with iron, folate and other essential nutrients in pregnancy—should be monitored and understood by obstetricians and women early on to promote healthy birth outcomes.
Daily omega-3 fatty acids may help human organs stay young
Date: 03/02/2025
Consuming one gram of omega-3 per day may slow down the rate of biological aging in humans.
FDA bans Red 3 dye from food and drugs – a scientist explains the artificial colour’s health risks and long history
Date: 23/01/2025
Red 3, a synthetic dye commonly used in food, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals, has been linked to significant health risks, including potential carcinogenic effects observed in animal studies.
Drawing a line from the gut microbiome to inflammation and depression
Date: 21/01/2025
"There is a story out there linking the gut microbiome with depression, and this study takes it one step further, toward a real understanding of the molecular mechanisms behind the link...."
Risks of Strict Vegetarian Diets During Pregnancy - Systematic Review
Date: 19/01/2025
A systematic review and meta-analysis - involving eight studies and more than 72,000 participants from different developed countries - found strict vegetarian diets during pregnancy linked with higher risks for some pregnancy outcomes than omnivorous diets
Weekend reading: Gluten free!
Date: 17/01/2025
This important book is a rousing call for action—medical, dietary, social, and political–to protect people with coeliac disease from the gluten proteins that make them sick.
Dietary Supplement Shown to Reduce Aggression by Up to 28%
Date: 16/01/2025
There is now sufficient evidence to begin to implement omega-3 supplementation to reduce aggression in children and adults - irrespective of whether the setting is the community, the clinic, or the criminal justice system.
Nourishing futures: How micronutrients improve pregnancy outcomes, reduce healthcare costs
Date: 16/01/2025
This Briefing discusses outcomes from a new observational study of birth outcomes in mothers who struggled with symptoms of antenatal depression and were treated with micronutrients. We discuss the importance of the findings with respect to cost savings, guidelines, and implications for nutrient prescribing.
US bans controversial red food dye, decades after scientists raised alarm
Date: 15/01/2025
"The body of evidence from human studies indicates that synthetic food dyes are associated with adverse neurobehavioral outcomes in children, and that children vary in their sensitivity to synthetic food dyes...."
High-fat diet during adolescence increases impulsive behaviours in adult rodents
Date: 09/01/2025
For adults, a diet high in saturated fats and added sugar has been linked to impulsivity and poor self-control. But what role, if any, does diet play in adolescent psychological development?
What we eat affects our health—and can alter how our genes function
Date: 09/01/2025
"We found a direct link between eating fibre and modulation of gene function that has anti-cancer effects, and we think this is likely a global mechanism because the short-chain fatty acids that result from fibre digestion can travel all over the body...."
Vitamin deficiency may be why you’re so tired
Date: 07/01/2025
In short, there are things you can do about your fatigue. Smart choices help optimise mood, energy levels and overall health, and reduce the surges of sluggishness you feel throughout the day.
Divisive study finds link between fluoride and childhood IQ loss
Date: 06/01/2025
This systematic review and meta-analysis found inverse associations and a dose-response association between fluoride measurements in urine and drinking water and children's IQ across the large multi-country epidemiological literature.
Doctors worry that iodine deficiency—a dietary problem from the past—is coming back
Date: 06/01/2025
Researchers have increasingly been reporting low levels of iodine in pregnant women and other people, raising concerns about an impact on their newborns. And there is also a very small, but growing, number of reports of iodine deficiency in kids.
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