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Boost to Develop Microalgae into Health Foods

October 15, 2020
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Adelaide, South Australia — Dietary supplementation of fatty acids produced from microalgae have wide-reaching health benefits for humans, including the ability to reduce obesity, diabetes and fatty...

Scientists Identify Hormone that might Help Treat Malabsorption

September 24, 2020
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Cincinnati, OH — Scientists at Cincinnati Children’s used human intestinal organoids grown from stem cells to discover how our bodies control the absorption of nutrients from the food we eat....

Improving Protein Digestibility in Sorghum

August 19, 2020
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Madison, WI — Sorghum, a common food item in regions of Africa and Asia, has one missing puzzle piece. The missing piece? Protein digestibility, which researchers in the Department of Agronomy at Kansas...

Research Finds Daily Cranberry Intake Associated with Reduced H. Pylori Infection Rates

August 18, 2020
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Wareham, MA — A new clinical trial found consuming cranberry juice containing 44 mg of proanthocyanidins (or “PACs”) per 240-mL serving twice daily for eight weeks resulted in a 20% reduction...

Grow Faster, Die Sooner

August 6, 2020
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Munich, Germany — Bacteria are survival artists: When they get nutrition, they multiply rapidly, albeit they can also survive periods of hunger. But, when they grow too quickly, their ability to survive...

Iron Study Combats Anaemia with Cutting-Edge Computer Simulation

August 4, 2020
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Parkville, Australia — A new iron intervention study has determined which of the world’s low-and-middle income countries would benefit from using iron-containing micronutrient powders to tackle...

Overweight and Obesity are Associated with Low Sperm Quality

July 28, 2020
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Tarragona, Spain — Infertility affects between 10 and 15% of all couples of reproductive ages and can be caused by a wide variety of factors: genetic, physiological, environmental and nutritional.Although...

Turmeric could have Antiviral Properties

July 20, 2020
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London, UK — Curcumin, a natural compound found in the spice turmeric, could help eliminate certain viruses, research has found. A study published in the Journal of General Virology showed...

Supplements with Potential to Prevent Alzheimer’s Affect Blood, but Less so the Brain

July 20, 2020
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Los Angeles, CA — For years, a scientific puzzle has bedeviled researchers aiming to fight Alzheimer’s disease, a common and incurable form of dementia. The results of numerous lab investigations...

High-Fat Diet with Antibiotic Use Linked to Gut Inflammation

July 16, 2020
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Davis, CA — Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) affects approximately 11% of people worldwide. It is characterized by recurring episodes of abdominal pain, bloating and changes in bowel habits. IBS patients...

Study Suggests Pickled Capers Activate Proteins Important for Human Brain and Heart Health

July 15, 2020
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Irvine, CA — A compound commonly found in pickled capers has been shown to activate proteins required for normal human brain and heart activity, and may even lead to future therapies for the treatment...

Dissecting Fruit Flies’ Varying Responses to Life-Extension Diet

July 10, 2020
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Seattle, WA — Changes in a few small molecules involved in a cell’s metabolism seem to indicate whether a restricted “life extension” diet will actually extend, shorten, or have no...

Antioxidants in Corn Line Could Aid Human IBD Protection, Therapy

July 10, 2020
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State College, PA — Flavonoids from a specific line of corn act as anti-inflammatory agents in the guts of mice with an inflammatory-bowel-disease-like condition, according to a team of researchers...

Feeds of the Future

July 2, 2020
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Göttingen, Germany — Worldwide there is a growing demand for animal products for human nutrition, despite vegan and vegetarian diets becoming more popular in Western countries. Changing diets necessitate...

Study Suggests Blood Vessels Can Make You Fat, and Yet Fit

June 24, 2020
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Daejeon, South Korea — Can obesity define health? It is a question for much debate. Still, obesity is generally classified into metabolically healthy obesity (MHO) and an unhealthy version of obesity....

Bouillon Fortified With a New Iron Compound Could Help Reduce Iron Deficiency

June 17, 2020
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Gothenburg, Sweden — Iron fortification of food is a cost-effective method of preventing iron deficiency. But finding iron compounds that are easily absorbed by the intestine without compromising food...

Study Links Elevated Levels of Advanced Glycation End-Products (AGEs) with Breast Cancer Risk

June 15, 2020
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Charleston, SC — Hollings Cancer Center researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and colleagues assessed the connection between dietary advanced glycation end products (AGEs)...

You Are What You Eat Is as Important for Fish as It Is for People

June 9, 2020
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Vancouver, BC — There is truth in the saying “you are what you eat”; even more so if you are a salmon or herring swimming off the British Columbia coast, a recent UBC study discovered. Juvenile...

Diet, Gut Microbes Affect Cancer Treatment Outcomes, Research Suggests

June 8, 2020
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Charlottesville, VA — What we eat can affect the outcome of chemotherapy – and likely many other medical treatments – because of ripple effects that begin in our gut, new research suggests. University...

New Wearable Sensor Tracks Vitamin C Levels in Sweat

May 20, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — A team at the University of California San Diego has developed a wearable, non invasive Vitamin C sensor that could provide a new, highly personalized option for users to track their...

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