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Getting the most health benefits from fruit smoothies: Researchers find adding a banana decreases level of flavanols

"This highlights how food preparation and combinations can affect the absorption of dietary compounds in foods."


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Eating emulsifiers during pregnancy and lactation linked to health risks in mouse offspring

"Maternal consumption of emulsifiers may affect offspring health, promoting mild metabolic disarrangements, anxiety-like states and cognitive impairments."


Professor Michael A Crawford PhD, FRSB, FRCPath

FAB WEBINAR - Feeding Humanity: The Key Role of Nutrition in the Mental Health Crisis

A FAB Research Live Webinar and Q&A session - with Professor Michael A Crawford PhD, FRSB, FRCPath


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Culinary medicine: Dietary approaches to chronic disease

Culinary medicine programs can be implemented as patient care interventions or experiential nutrition education for students, medical trainees, and health care professionals.


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9 signs you have inflammation in your body. Could an anti-inflammatory diet help?

Inflammation is a major factor in the link between diet and many health conditions. Eating an anti-inflammatory diet is considered safe, likely to support health and to prevent future chronic conditions.


Peppers

Brains with Alzheimer's disease have subnormal levels of important dietary antioxidants

This new evidence of selective carotenoid and tocopherol deficiencies in the brains of subjects with Alzheimer's disease adds further support to the growing evidence that a greater dietary intake of carotenoids may slow cognitive decline prior to—and possibly following—a diagnosis with Alzheimer's disease.


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Gut microbes are the community within you that you can't live without – how eating well can cultivate your microbial and social self

A gut-friendly approach to nutrition is important for happy and healthy communities both inside and out of your body.


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Researchers find that the brain controls vitamin balance in the body

"What we found is radically new. No one before has even suggested that the brain may control vitamin balance in the body and this is the first study to imply a 'vitaminostatic' role of the hypothalamus...."


Apples

A mother's diet can protect her grandchildren's brains, genetic model study shows

Mothers who eat apples and herbs in early pregnancy could be protecting the brain health of their children and grandchildren, a new study has found.


Artificial sweetener

New study links long-term artificial sweetener intake to increased body fat adipose tissue volume

"This study showed that habitual, long-term intake of total and individual artificial sweetener intakes are related to greater volumes of adipose tissue, commonly known as body fat....."


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Fructose intake is a driver of obesity, just like in hibernating animals, study finds

Researchers have identified a central conduit to obesity: fructose.


Food and Behaviour Research

YOU NEED TO HEAR THIS! - The Food Programme - Feeding Your Brain: A Users Guide

Why the 'mental health crisis' will never be solved - unless we STOP IGNORING NUTRITION - and start feeding healthier minds


Pregnancy

Low fibre intake during pregnancy may delay development in infants' brains

"Our results show that nutritional guidance for pregnant mothers is crucial to reduce the risk of future health problems for their children"


Adolescent anger

Australia's health care system must change to address 'rising tide' of youth mental ill health, say psychiatrists

The recent National Study of Mental Health and Well-being revealed that the prevalence of mental disorders in 16- to 24-year-olds has risen by 50%—from 26% in 2007 to 39% in 2021.


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Professor warns of micronutrient deficiency risks in 'sustainable' diets

Plant-focused diets, such as that recommended by EAT- Lancet to address environmental sustainability, may place consumers at risk of various micronutrient deficiencies.


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MIND diet trial finds no significant cognitive improvements or changes in brain morphology

Changes in cognition and brain MRI outcomes from baseline to year three did not differ significantly between those who followed the MIND diet and those who followed the control diet with mild caloric restriction.


Vitamin B12

Scientists find vital missing ingredient for healthy vegan diet – algae

Vitamins for vegans made from algae could soon prove to be the most effective solution to replacing an important nutrient missing from plant-based diets.


Autism

More children missing developmental milestones

Nearly 9 out of every 100 U.S. children are now diagnosed with a developmental disability, according to updated figures from the CDC.


Overweight

Obesity and Mental Health: A Surprisingly Strong Connection

A new large-scale study finds obesity often precedes mental-health disorders


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The truth about emulsifiers: are they destroying our gut health?

The E numbers in food make bread softer and ice-cream silkier. But there is growing concern about how they might affect our microbiome.