Sentences with phrase «human food studies»

I am a 32 - year - old research scientist whose job is to run human food studies at the Institute of Food Research (IFR), a BBSRC research institute.

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An ever growing pile of studies shows that a lack of face to face time with your fellow human beings will kill you as surely as fast food or cigarettes.

As the Danish statistician Bjørn Lomborg has shown in study after study, life expectancy is increasing on a global basis, including in the Third World; water and air in the developed world are cleaner than five hundred years ago; fears of chemicals poisoning the earth are wildly exaggerated; both energy and food are cheaper and more plentiful throughout the world than ever before; «overpopulation» is a myth; and the global picture is, in truth, one of unprecedented human prosperity.

In a recent human study, a large dose of resistant starch increased satiety and decreased subsequent food intake.

«Animal studies and in - vitro studies with human cells have repeatedly shown that food - grade carrageenan causes gastrointestinal inflammation and higher rates of intestinal lesions, ulcerations, and even malignant tumors.»

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has evaluated the scientific grounding of the health claim, which is backed by six human intervention studies that prove that consumption of a minimum of 12g of Orafti inulin a day improved stool frequency and promoted digestive health.

The components of their product and the foods they've suggested are proven separately in numerous articles, human studies and books — see The Handbook of Probiotics and Prebiotics by Yuan Kun Lee.

A 2011 study published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, tested the impact of pea protein powder on both hypertensive rats and humans.

The study into a vegan America, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and based on data on what Americans ate and how they farmed between 2000 and 2010, looked at how much US soil is given over to raising animals to create food for humans, and then worked out how much food Americans could create if they cut out the middle - cow — and simply grew food to eat themselves.

Throughout our website, we strive to provide you with health benefit information that is based on human studies involving large numbers of people who consume foods in an everyday way.

Studies have shown that humans have a tendency to overeat when we are offered a wide variety of foods during a meal.

I tend to side with the anti-agave position, but I would like to see more studies on fructose consumption in humans — well designed tightly controlled metabolic ward studies to make sure that people truly are being compliant with the foods that are being tested..

To judge the prize, the Council will be joined by leading experts in related disciplines, including US food scientist and writer Harold McGee; Massimo Montanari, a professor of Medieval History at Bologna University and one of the leading world experts in Food Studies; renowned novelist Laura Esquivel; and Hilal Elver, Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCfood scientist and writer Harold McGee; Massimo Montanari, a professor of Medieval History at Bologna University and one of the leading world experts in Food Studies; renowned novelist Laura Esquivel; and Hilal Elver, Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCFood Studies; renowned novelist Laura Esquivel; and Hilal Elver, Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCFood for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).

However, studies do not debate that organic foods are free of pesticides that have known side effects in animals and humans.

«Contrary to the prevailing scientific opinion about the biological effects of nitrite and nitrate, our data support the view that humans may require these dietary components from birth — from nature's most perfect food,» said Norman G. Hord, Ph.D., M.P.H., R.D., the study's lead author and an associate professor of food science and human nutrition at Michigan State University (MSU).

There are numerous studies demonstrating that, even when babies have food and water, if they are not provided with human interaction and touch, they are much less likely to thrive.

Funding / Support: The Infant Feeding Practices Study II was funded by the Food and Drug Administration, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Women's Health, National Institutes of Health, and Maternal and Child Health Bureau in the US Department of Health and Human Services.

less than or equal to lamivudine Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Antiretroviral therapy, usually means 1 - 2 drugs, used in early studies Antiretroviral zidovudine (also known as ZDV) Breastfeeding Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative Breastfeeding and HIV International Transmission Study Combined antiretroviral therapy Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Deoxyribonucleic Acid Exclusive Breastfeeding Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay Food and Agrigulture Organization Fixed dose combination ART, e.g., lamividine, stavudine, and nevirapine Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy, 3 or more drugs for more effective treatment used in later studies Human Immunodeficiency virus International Atomic Energy Agency Infant feeding Infant and young child feeding Lopinavir cubic millimetre Mother - to - Child Transmission of HIV Non-governmental organization Nevirapine Polymerase Chain Reaction People Living with HIV Prevention of Mother - to - Child Transmission Replacement Feeding Ritonavir Ribonucleic acid, one of the three major macromolecules (along with DNA and proteins) that are essential for all known forms of life single dose NVP United Nations Agencies Joint United Nations Programme on HIV / AIDS United Nations Population Fund United Nations Commissioner for Refugees United Nations Children's Fund U.S. Agency for International Development World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action United Nations World Food Programme World Health Assembly WHO 2010 Guidelines on HIV and infant feeding World Health Organization Zidovudine (same drug as AZT)

How can that be, when studies have shown over and over that human milk isn't just a food but a substance optimized to meet the complex needs of the human child?

In fact, there have been studies done in nutrition in poor areas around the world, places where food accessibility is particularly challenging and in conditions where mom's nutrition is not so great, and what's been found is the nutritional value of human milk is preserved.

A 1997 study carried out by the University of Illinois Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition and a more recent UC Davis Study Published in the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture found the nutritive quality of canned produce to be comparable to that of fresh and frozen fruits and vegetastudy carried out by the University of Illinois Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition and a more recent UC Davis Study Published in the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture found the nutritive quality of canned produce to be comparable to that of fresh and frozen fruits and vegetaStudy Published in the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture found the nutritive quality of canned produce to be comparable to that of fresh and frozen fruits and vegetables.

Marion Nestle is the Paulette Goddard professor of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health at NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

Recent studies suggest that human milk, and particularly the infant's own mother's milk, may be the best food for all babies.

In one study reported in the Journal of Pediatrics, none of the infants receiving human milk as the only milk in the first 12 months of life, without other foods containing iron, were anaemic at 7 months, compared with 43 % of those breastfed for a shorter period.

Since then an advisory committee to the US Food and Drug Administration has been studying whether the process is safe, after a Portland researcher said he had conducted the technique successfully on monkeys - and now wanted to begin trying it on humans.

In less than a year we have implemented many of the action items in our health and human services plan, «Initiatives for a Strong Community,» as varied as bringing fresh foods and vegetables to inner city neighborhoods labeled «food deserts,» to completing a chronic neglect study and incorporating its findings into our child welfare response programs, to increasing participation in the SNAP program to reduce hunger.

Biodiversity is essential for human health, economies, food production and cultures, notes Paul Ehrlich, co-author of the Science Advances study.

According to a nutrition study led by the German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE), a partner of the German Center for Diabetes Research, the so - called internal clock also influences how people with impaired glucose metabolism react to carbohydrate - rich food.

«What has emerged from our study as well as from other work on introgression is that interbreeding with archaic humans does indeed have functional implications for modern humans, and that the most obvious consequences have been in shaping our adaptation to our environment — improving how we resist pathogens and metabolize novel foods,» Kelso says.

Both the KUDOS (Kansas DHA Outcome Study), directed by Carlson and Colombo, and the DOMinO (DHA to Optimize Mother Infant Outcome) study directed by Maria Makrides, professor of human nutrition and Healthy Mothers, Babies and Children theme leader for the South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute, and Robert Gibson, professor of functional food science at the University of Adelaide, saw a small overall increase in gestation length, but this increase was found to be related to a decrease in deliveries at higher risk for early preterm bStudy), directed by Carlson and Colombo, and the DOMinO (DHA to Optimize Mother Infant Outcome) study directed by Maria Makrides, professor of human nutrition and Healthy Mothers, Babies and Children theme leader for the South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute, and Robert Gibson, professor of functional food science at the University of Adelaide, saw a small overall increase in gestation length, but this increase was found to be related to a decrease in deliveries at higher risk for early preterm bstudy directed by Maria Makrides, professor of human nutrition and Healthy Mothers, Babies and Children theme leader for the South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute, and Robert Gibson, professor of functional food science at the University of Adelaide, saw a small overall increase in gestation length, but this increase was found to be related to a decrease in deliveries at higher risk for early preterm birth.

«Women going through menopause have an increased tendency to store fat in their livers,» said the study's lead author Colette Miller, a post-doctoral research associate in the College of Family and Consumer Sciences» department of foods and human nutrition.

«Consumer insight, such as provided by this study, is important for a successful positioning and marketing of insects or insect protein in Western societies, either as a food for human consumption or as a protein source in animal feed.

Naturally, some self - proclaimed health gurus have seized on these studies as evidence that humans could reap the same benefits by slashing their food intake.

Jenifer Fenton, assistant professor and researcher in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, and Kari Hortos, associate dean in MSU's College of Osteopathic Medicine at the Macomb University Center, led the 18 - month, cross-sectional study, which followed 126 healthy, white American males ranging from 48 to 65 years of age.

Sarah Comstock, a co-author of the study and research fellow in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, also indicated that the significance of the research is twofold.

Managing the microbiome instead of pummeling it with antibiotics has produced impressive results in chicken and mice studies, pointing the way not just to future human treatments but also to a healthier food supply.

Wild birds that are more clever than others at foraging for food have different levels of a neurotransmitter receptor that has been linked with intelligence in humans, according to a study led by McGill University researchers.

«We need to know where there are inadequacies in these surveys to identify nutrition and food policy and research needs,» said the study's corresponding author, Mary Cluskey, an associate professor in OSU's College of Public Health and Human Sciences and a registered dietitian.

Crucially, they also help investigators through the paperwork required to win approval from the Food and Drug Adminstration (FDA) to use an investigational drug in a human study.

The extra mercury could reverberate up the food web to fish that humans eat, warns study coauthor Erik Björn, a biogeochemist at Umeå University in Sweden.

The collection of studies in the theme issue provides a rallying point for broader discussions of how human influences shape evolution and how that evolution, in turn, influences species traits, biodiversity, and «ecosystem services» — the benefits that nature provides to humans, such as food, water and clean air.

«Pyrroloquinoline quinone, or PQQ, is a natural antioxidant found in soil and many foods and enriched in human breast milk,» said the study's lead author Karen Jonscher, PhD, an associate professor of anesthesiology and a physicist at CU Anschutz.

The investigators designed the study in consultation with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to enable potential future licensure of the manufacture of purified human pancreatic islets.

A new study published today in the Canadian Journal of Zoology found that captive bears fed a diet high in saturated fats and low in «healthy» polyunsaturated fats did not show symptoms of disease typically observed in humans eating foods high in saturated fats such as insulin resistance, a precursor to type 2 diabetes.

Previous studies in humans and a variety of animals have shown that the OPFC is part of a network of brain regions that respond to food, sex, and other rewards.

Black bears in Yosemite National Park that don't seek out human foods subsist primarily on plants and nuts, according to a study conducted by biologists at UC San Diego who also found that ants and other sources of animal protein, such as mule deer, make up only a small fraction of the bears» annual diet.

If THI continues to show promise as a nutraceutical or food - based drug, medical scientists will head into pre-clinical studies of effectiveness and safety before advancing to human trials.

In a study published last year in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Hopkins and other scientists measured the stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen in the hair and bone of Yosemite bears over the past century and found that since 1999, the proportion of human - derived food in bear diets has dramatically declined.

After drinking, blood alcohol levels increase much faster and reach higher levels than what would be expected before surgery, explains Marta Yanina Pepino, an assistant professor in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at U of I who led the study.

The study, which focused on bears that had learned to eat human food or food waste, found that the proportion of human foods in their diets decreased by about 63 percent after the new strategies were implemented.