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Comprehensive Nutritional and Dietary Intervention for Autism Spectrum Disorder
It's been a while coming but the paper by Jim Adams and colleagues detailing the effects of a "comprehensive nutritional and dietary intervention for autism spectrum disorder" has finally seen the peer-reviewed light of day.
Parental diet before conception affects child's health
A child's health can be compromised not only by a mother who smokes or drinks during pregnancy, but by the obesity and poor diet of both parents well before the child is conceived, researchers say.
16 April 2018 - Science Daily - Raw fruit and vegetables provide better mental health outcomes
Researchers have discovered raw fruit and vegetables may be better for your mental health than cooked, canned and processed fruit and vegetables.
16 April 2018 - Futurity - Scientist debunks 5 food allergy myths
A surge in childhood food allergies across the United States has turned classrooms into homemade-treat-free zones and parents into experts at scanning labels. But what’s fact and what’s fiction?
14 April 2018 - Science Daily - Fecal microbiota transplantation produces sustained improvements in cognitive and clinical outcomes
Long-term results of a randomized study demonstrate sustained improvements in hepatic encephalopathy episodes, hospitalizations, and cognitive performance compared with standard-of-care.
What is Britain eating? The ultra-processed truth about 10 of our bestselling foods
From Cherry Bakewells to Fray Bentos pies, do we really understand the cocktail of ingredients in our favourite brands? Nutritionists assess them – and just what they might mean for our health.
11 April 2018 - Open Access Government - Diet and health: A complex relationship
Advances in science and technology and socio-economic and political changes this last century have had a major impact on the way food is produced, processed, distributed and sold, and our eating habits and diets. At the same time, nutrition scientists have been acquiring, organising and communicating evidence about the relationships between our (changing) diets and health.
Plasma anandamide concentrations are lower in children with autism
Recent research details "the first empirical human data to translate preclinical rodent findings to confirm a link between plasma anandamide concentrations in children with ASD".
The Diet That Might Cure Depression
Several studies show that healthy eating is connected with better mood.
6 April 2018 - MedicalXpress - Soft drinks sugar tax to tackle obesity 'has already had an effect'
The Soft Drinks Industry Levy charges manufacturers based on the amount of sugar added to beverages. Campaigners hope it will reduce obesity levels and improve health.
Omega-3 for fat-free kids: Study links DHA to higher fat-free body mass in children
Pregnant women supplemented with the omega-3 fatty acid DHA during pregnancy are more likely to have children with a higher fat-free mass at age five, researchers suggest.
4 April 2018 - MedicalXpress - Parkinson's disease and binge eating
The results of a new study show that "binge eating," which affects some Parkinson's patients, is associated with an impairment of working memory. This deficit prevents people from remembering the long-term goal of healthy eating behaviours.
30 March 2018 - MedicalXpress - Can a Mediterranean diet pattern slow aging?
A series of six articles appearing in the March issue of The Journals of Gerontology, Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences finds new correlations between a Mediterranean diet and healthy aging outcomes - while also underscoring the need for careful approaches to the use of data in order to measure the diet's potential benefits.
29 March 2018 - The Guardian - Eating out increases levels of phthalates in the body, study finds
US research discovers 35% increase in levels of chemical linked to disease in those who dined at restaurants the previous day.
27 March 2018 - The Guardian - Can the ad industry persuade us to eat more vegetables?
For decades the food industry has played on our desire to fit in, a strategy that has already stealthily altered our eating habits. We've been persuaded that a mid-morning and mid-afternoon snack are part of everyone's day, and that it's normal to have frozen pizza and ready-meals in your shopping trolley, and you don't watch television in the evening without a snack to hand.
26 March 2018 - The Guardian - The human microbiome: why our microbes could be key to our health
A plethora of conditions, from obesity to anxiety, appear to be linked to the microbes inside us.
Prenatal choline intake increases grey and white matter in piglets
Piglets from choline-deficient mothers have smaller brains with less grey and white matter.
25 March 2018 - BBC - Doctors Learn Nothing About Nutrition
Medical students say they currently learn almost nothing about the way diet and lifestyle affect health - and they should be taught more.
25 March 2018 - Psychology Today - The Psychobiotic Revolution
A new book by Scott C. Anderson details the microbiome and the brain. Studying and changing the microbiome to affect health has become the newest frontier of medicine, both via legitimate, evidenced-base practices and some quackadoodles cashing in on the latest fad.
23 March 2018 - Nutraingredients - Gut bugs’ diet may impact intestinal permeability: Study
The food preferences of different bacteria in our guts may have major implications for our own digestive health, say researchers.
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