Sentences with phrase «human nutrition research»
«It's not just about researching a new type of soy bean — we do a lot of human nutrition research, for instance, taking an agricultural commodity and turning it into a product that everybody can use,» she says.
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Andrea Grossman, a public relations officer for Tufts University's human nutrition research center on aging, was quoted by the Beijing Youth Daily as saying that the study on golden rice was approved by authorities in both countries after an examination by ethics committees.
It's true that human nutrition research indicates that the beta carotene in Golden Rice is readily converted to vitamin A in the body, providing encouraging evidence that eating Golden Rice could help reduce vitamin A deficiency.
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We are really disappointed that our Golden Rice field trial was vandalized, but it is just one trial and we will continue our Golden Rice research to improve human nutrition.»
The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) is currently reviewing the characteristics of the genetically modified rice, including its safety and suitability for human nutrition.
Their education is not limited to basic breastfeeding help, but also includes the health sciences such as biology, human anatomy and physiology, infant / child growth and development, nutrition, clinical research, intensive lactation studies, and basic life support (among many others).
The Center for American Progress, the Coalition on Human Needs, Witnesses to Hunger, the Food Research & Action Center, Feeding America, and the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics joined together to launch a national campaign that asked individuals across the country to share their personal experiences with the nation's nutrition assistance programs.
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.
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 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.
«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.
It is a common issue with nutrition studies, she notes — given the vast diversity of human research subjects, variations in the concentration or mixture of supplements, and often uncontrolled factors such as baseline diets or preexisting illnesses, it's not unusual to see different studies canceling each other out.
Co-authors of the commentary article are: Meriah Schoen, a research assistant at Emory's Center for the Study of Human Health and a graduate student focused on nutrition at Georgia State University; and Amanda Mummert, who recently received a PhD in Anthropology from Emory.
This finding could have obvious implications in preventing heart disease and diabetes, but also could be important for older adults because higher lean body mass can contribute to a longer life with more independence, said Ohio State's Martha Belury, a professor of human nutrition who led the research.
Auriel Willette, an assistant professor of food science and human nutrition; and Joseph Webb, a graduate research assistant, found on average that Caucasians with one bad version of the gene — guanosine triphosphate cyclohydrolase - 1 or GCH1 — developed Parkinson's symptoms five years earlier, and had a 23 percent increased risk for the disease.
In addition to Xu and Marshall, study co-authors were Yavuz Yagiz, a senior chemist in food science and human nutrition at UF; Wlodzimierz Borejsza - Wysocki, IR - 4 research programs coordinator at UF; Jiang Lu, professor of viticultural sciences at Florida A&M University and Milena Ramirez - Rodrigues, a former doctoral student in food science and human nutrition.
Working with Savage were Julie Peterson, instructor, food science and nutrition, University of Minnesota, St. Paul; Michele Marini, statistician, Center for Childhood Obesity Research, Penn State; Leann Birch, Distinguished Professor of Human Development and professor of nutritional sciences, and director of the Center for Childhood Obesity Research, Penn State; and Peter Bordi Jr., director, Center for Food Innovation, and associate professor of hospitality management, Penn State.
Since 2003, Kevin Hall, PhD — a physicist turned metabolism researcher at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases — has been using data from dozens of controlled feeding studies conducted over decades of nutrition research to build mathematical models of how different nutrients affect human metabolism and body weight.
She is responsible for managing a grant portfolio of research projects related to human nutrition and adult obesity prevention clinical trials.
«For this, he is very deserving of his appointment to serve as the Allen Chair «to support research of foods, which influence human health and nutrition.
The Allen Chair was established in 1990 to support the research of foods, which influence human health and nutrition including the development of new, genetically altered foods, which can prevent diet - related disease.
He was moved by the hunger and malnutrition he witnessed in the world to start the Allen Foundation supporting education and research in human nutrition.
The awards are available in the broad areas of human nutrition and crop science to members of academic and research staff at UK universities and other organisations who are defined as eligible for funding under the criteria used by research councils.
He taught me a lot about evolutionary medicine and nutrition in general, opened many doors and introduced me (directly and indirectly) to various players in this field, such as Dr. Boyd Eaton (one of the fathers of evolutionary nutrition), Maelán Fontes from Spain (a current research colleague and close friend), Alejandro Lucia (a Professor and a top researcher in exercise physiology from Spain, with whom I am collaborating), Ben Balzer from Australia (a physician and one of the best minds in evolutionary medicine), Robb Wolf from the US (a biochemist and the best «biohackers I know»), Óscar Picazo and Fernando Mata from Spain (close friends who are working with me at NutriScience), David Furman from Argentina (a top immunologist and expert in chronic inflammation working at Stanford University, with whom I am collaborating), Stephan Guyenet from the US (one of my main references in the obesity field), Lynda Frassetto and Anthony Sebastian (both nephrologists at the University of California San Francisco and experts in acid - base balance), Michael Crawford from the UK (a world renowned expert in DHA and Director of the Institute of Brain Chemistry and Human Nutrition, at the Imperial College London), Marcelo Rogero (a great researcher and Professor of Nutrigenomics at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil), Sérgio Veloso (a cell biologist from Portugal currently working with me, who has one of the best health blogs I know), Filomena Trindade (a Portuguese physician based in the US who is an expert in functional medicine), Remko Kuipers and Martine Luxwolda (both physicians from the Netherlands, who conducted field research on traditional populations in Tanzania), Gabriel de Carvalho (a pharmacist and renowned nutritionist from Brazil), Alex Vasquez (a physician from the US, who is an expert in functional medicine and Rheumatology), Bodo Melnik (a Professor of Dermatology and expert in Molecular Biology from Germany, with whom I have published papers on milk and mTOR signaling), Johan Frostegård from Sweden (a rheumatologist and Professor at Karolinska Institutet, who has been a pioneer on establishing the role of the immune system in cardiovascular disease), Frits Muskiet (a biochemist and Professor of Pathophysiology from the Netherlands, who, thanks to his incredible encyclopedic knowledge and open - mind, continuously teaches me more than I could imagine and who I consider a mentor), and the Swedish researchers Staffan Lindeberg, Tommy Jönsson and Yvonne Granfeldt, who became close friends and mentors.
The Weston A. Price Foundation is a nonprofit, tax - exempt charity founded in 1999 to disseminate the research of nutrition pioneer Dr. Weston Price, whose studies of isolated nonindustrialized peoples established the parameters of human health and determined the optimum characteristics of human diets.
After graduating with a degree in applied human nutrition, Pilon landed a job as a research analyst at a nutritional supplements company.
It is difficult to determine exactly what proportion of those losses are due to maternal malnutrition, but recent research indicates that 60 percent of deaths of children under age 5 are associated with malnutrition — and children's malnutrition is strongly correlated with mothers» poor nutritional status.17 Problems related to anemia, for example, including cognitive impairment in children and low productivity in adults, cost US$ 5 billion a year in South Asia alone.18 Illness associated with nutrient deficiencies have significantly reduced the productivity of women in less developed countries.19 A recent report from Asia shows that malnutrition reduces human productivity by 10 percent to 15 percent and gross domestic product by 5 percent to 10 percent.20 By improving the nutrition of adolescent girls and women, nations can reduce health care costs, increase intellectual capacity, and improve adult productivity.21
In 2013, more than 60 nutrition scientists gathered in Washington, DC, for a «Protein Summit» to discuss research on protein and human health.
The Weston A. Price Foundation is a nonprofit charitable organization, co-founded in 1999 by Sally Fallon Morell and nutritionist, Mary G. Enig, PhD, to disseminate the research of nutrition pioneer, Dr. Weston A. Price (1870 - 1948), whose studies of isolated, non-industrialized peoples established the parameters of human health and determined the optimum characteristics of human diets.
The Weston A. Price Foundation (WAPF) is a nutrition education non-profit started in 1999, dedicated to research, education, and activism on health promoting, traditionally prepared, nutrient - dense, whole foods in the human diet.
The information on this blog comes from my own anecdotal experience and from research I've done in human nutrition.
In 1997 a committee of experts was brought together by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations and the World Health Organization (WHO) to review the available research evidence regarding the importance of carbohydrates in human nutrition and health (2).
Rodriguez was among more than 40 nutrition scientists who gathered in Washington, D.C., for a «Protein Summit» to discuss research on protein and human health.
It's given all the stuff you know, both from your hardcore physics background, nutrition research and everything else, just life, your top three recommendations for someone who wants to perform better as a human being.
Family and Consumer Sciences - North Carolina State University researched - based information on health, food and nutrition, financial management, consumer issues, legal issues, housing and house, furnishings, apparel and textiles, human development, and family relationships
We're pleased to see that the new Dietary Guidelines are consistent with our work over the past 20 years of analyzing research on nutrition and its impact on human performance, especially for educators and their students.
«From HABRI research, we know that healthy pets transform the lives of people through the human - animal bond — and Nature's Variety transforms the lives of pets by empowering pet owners to provide their pets with natural nutrition,» said Howlett.
«Recent HABRI research found that when educated about the health benefits of the human - animal bond, pet owners are more likely to provide their pets with higher quality nutrition, including treats,» said Steven Feldman, executive director of HABRI.
Based on pet nutrition research, Price vehemently opposes raw diets, which can expose humans to potential health risks such as salmonella.
In 2004 she worked as a trainee at the department of Human Biology, at the University of Maastricht and she performed research on the effects of nutrition on cytokine expression in inflammatory bowel disease.
«From HABRI research, we know that healthy pets transform the lives of people through the human - animal bond — and Nature's Variety transforms the lives of pets by empowering pet owners to provide their pets with natural nutrition,» added Howlett.
The goal in providing funds to these promising students is to advance human, animal and ecosystem health through both nutrition related research and knowledge exchange.
We invest in a huge amount of research, from cutting - edge advances in pet nutrition, to understanding human animal interaction and the benefits this brings to pets, people and society.
«Recent HABRI research found that when educated about the health benefits of the human - animal bond, pet owners are more likely to provide their pets with higher quality nutrition, including treats,» said Steven Feldman, Executive Director of HABRI.
As with human nutrition, there are many schools of thought as to what is considered to be a healthy balanced diet and continuing research makes both human and pet nutrition a constantly changing and evolving topic.
Dr. Newman drew upon her education in human nutrition, homeopathy and alternative care and set out to research and develop safe, effective programs for all pets.
In collaboration with his children, he continues his research into the molecular biology of aging, which he says «has the potential to improve human nutrition and preventive medicine, increase the human lifespan, and decrease the tragic suffering and loss of early deaths.»
Founded in 1947, The Rodale Institute is a 333 - acre education and research center and has been a leader in the science of regenerative and organic agriculture and its impact on global warming, nutrition, and human health.
In 2013, switched to a plant - based diet and has ever since continued researching information on health, nutrition, and the human body, applying it in practice, and passing it on to others.