and water resources and changing diets and health expectations said Sonny Ramaswamy director of USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture and a former Kansas State university faculty member.
In a new study described in Scientific Reports researchers took a broad look at changes in gene activity in response to diet in the Western honey bee (Apis mellifera)
and vegetables in your diet reduces the risk of heart disease stroke diabetes and even some forms of cancer The World health organization WHO recommends a daily intake of at least 400 grams of fruit and vegetables.
when it comes to vegetables. 55 per cent add vegetables to their diet on a daily basis says Agneta Yngve.
However a new study published in the journal Environment International has estimated for the first time the potential cancer risk by age group through non-dietary ingestion and dermal exposure to third hand smoke.
The authors suggest limiting children's exposure to arsenic rice by including a variety of grains in their diets such as oats barley wheat and maize (corn) in addition to rice.
Benefits of carotenoidswhatâ's more according to the researchers the inclusion of carotenoids in a diet can help to reduce risk of developing diseases such as certain types of cancer heart disease or damage to vision especially those related to an aging population.
and sulphur stable isotopes analysis is an effective technique to reconstruct nestling Bonelli's Eagle diet according to a paper published in the journal The Ibis. The article is signed by experts Jaime Resano Mayor Antoni Hernã¡
Besides this conventional technique the stable isotope analysis (SIA) has been used successfully in recent years to study animals'diet
which can indicate diet compositionin order to reconstruct eagles'diet by analysing the isotopic composition of their feathers first authors had to characterise the isotopic composition of Bonelli's Eagle main preys in Catalonia.
and stable isotope analysis. The study showed that the isotopic analysis of feathers allows inferring individual species'diet during the breeding period something that is not possible by using pellet.
Authors point out that these results suggest that individual diet variation within populations is likely to have important ecological and evolutionary implications.
Dr Fiona Clissold who led the study explains why temperature has such a large influence on insect diets.
As a result nutrient availability at a given temperature varies between different plant species. A plant can be a poor quality diet at one temperature and a good quality diet at another.
The first Kangaroo grass gives a high protein diet at high temperatures and a high carbohydrate diet at low temperatures.
As mammals are warm-blooded animals that maintain a constant body temperature it is unlikely that temperature overtly affects the nutrient quality of their diets.
research showsscientists have found that eating almonds in your diet can reduce the risk of heart disease by keeping blood vessels healthy.
Researchers tested the effects of a short-term almond-enriched diet on healthy young and middle-aged men as well as on a group of young men with cardiovascular risk factors including having high blood pressure
At the end of the study period the group eating an almond-enriched diet had higher levels of antioxidants (alpha-tocopherol) in their blood stream improved blood flow
but our research proves that it isn't too late to introduce them into your diet--adding even a handful (around 50g) every day for a short period can help.
Taking into account the proportion of crops that can be used for food production as well as the amount needed for a balanced diet the results showed that between 300 and 550 million people could be fed by crops grown in the acquired land compared with between 190 and 370 million
and parents in a child care setting can affect a child's at home diet. Many preschool-aged children are not meeting the recommended daily amount of fruits vegetables
#Vegetarian diets produce fewer greenhouse gases and increase longevity, say new studiesconsuming a plant-based diet results in a more sustainable environment
On top of lower mortality rates switching from non-vegetarian diets to vegetarian diets or even semi-vegetarian diets also helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The vegetarian diets resulted in almost a third less emissions compared to the non-vegetarian diets.
To our knowledge no studies have used yet a single non-simulated data set to independently assess the climate change mitigation potential and actual health outcomes for the same dietary patterns said Joan Sabate MD
The accompanying article makes the case for returning to a large-scale practice of plant-based diets in light of the substantial and detrimental environmental impacts caused by the current trend of eating diets rich in animal products.
or choice large segments of the world's population have thrived on plant-based diets Sabate said.
and fiber in one's diet Kaiser said. While Kaiser recognizes the importance of eating fruits
In the overall context of a healthy diet energy reduction is the way to help lose weight so to reduce weight you have to reduce caloric intake Kaiser said.
When deciding which food additives to use to diminish bitter taste formulators must consider differences in regional diets for effective solutions said Sobel.
Evidence in the current study is the first to suggest that adequate quantities of specific cocoa polyphenols in the diet over time may prevent the glomming together of AÎ into oligomers that damage the brain as a means to prevent Alzheimer's disease.
Eating whole grains combined with a healthy diet may reduce the risk of heart disease and help with weight management according to the U s. Department of agriculture.
The 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans call for at least half the grain consumers eat to be whole grains
Federal dietary guidelines for the 2012-13 school year increased the whole grain required in school lunches.
if children could meet the 2010 dietary guidelines for whole grains. For the study 83 students in a Florida middle school were assigned randomly to receive either whole-or refined-grain foods over a six-week period in 2010.
Scott says that the gene construct responsible for lethality in antibiotic-free diets is female-specific Interestingly
when not provided tetracycline in their diets the males can be separated out in the larval stage.
study findsa study of 8 European countries presented at this year's European Congress on Obesity (ECO) in Sofia Bulgaria shows that children consuming a diet more in line with the rules of the Mediterranean one are 15%less likely to be overweight
The researchers used data from the IDEFICS study (Identification and Prevention of Dietary--and lifestyle--induced health effects in Children and infants) funded by the European commission.
Additional dietary data have been complemented by a telephone interview performed on a sub-sample of parents. The adherence to a Mediterranean-like diet was assessed by a score calculating by giving one point for high intakes of each food group
which was considered typical of the Mediterranean diet (vegetables fruit and nuts fish and cereal grains) as well as one point for low intakes of foods untypical of the Mediterranean diet (such as dairy and meat products).
Swedish children most Mediterraneaninterestingly the prevalence of high adherence to a Mediterranean-like diet was found to be independent of the geographical distribution with the Swedish children scoring the highest (followed by the Italians)
Soy foods are an almost exclusive dietary source of isoflavones a plant-derived estrogen. Some studies have highlighted their potential cancer protective properties
They also had a higher dietary intake of fruit and vegetables. Looking specifically at tofu miso soup
if gardening would help survivors eat a more nutritious diet and improve physical activity. Wendy Demark-Wahnefried Ph d. R. D. is the associate director for cancer prevention and control in the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center.
She is intrigued by the link between cancer and diet. There is powerful evidence she says that a diet high in fruits
Diets rich in cruciferous vegetables of which broccoli is one have been found to reduce risk of chronic degenerative diseases including cancer.
#Improving diet quality reduces risk for type 2 diabetesimproving the overall quality of one's diet helps to prevent type 2 diabetes independent of other lifestyle changes according to a study presented at the American Diabetes Association
The study by researchers at the Harvard School of Public health found that those who improved their diet quality index scores by 10 percent over four years--by eating more whole grains fruits
and vegetables and less sweetened beverages and saturated fats for example--reduced their risk for type 2 diabetes by about 20 percent compared to those who made no changes to their diets.
We found that diet was associated indeed with diabetes independent of weight loss and increased physical activity said lead researcher Sylvia Ley Phd a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard School of Public health.
This is important because it is often difficult for people to maintain a calorie-restricted diet for a long time.
or poor a person's diet was started when they out she said. Regardless of where participants started improving diet quality was beneficial for all.
Debris from forests that washes into freshwater lakes supplements the diets of microscopic zooplankton and the fish that feed off them--creating larger and stronger fish new research shows.
While plankton raised on algal carbon is more nutritious organic carbon from trees washed into lakes is a hugely important food source for freshwater fish bolstering their diet to ensure good size
However most have been based on diet during midlife and later and many lines of evidence suggest that some exposures potentially including dietary factors may have greater effects on the development of breast cancer during early adulthood.
They analyzed data from 88803 premenopausal women (aged 26 to 45) taking part in the Nurses'Health Study II who completed a questionnaire on diet in 1991.
Putting these real life data into a statistical model allowed the researchers to estimate breast cancer risks for women with different diets.
Further study of the relation between diet in early adulthood and risk of breast cancer is needed they add.
Since diet can influence insulin activation the researchers wondered whether diet could impact breast cancer prognosis based on expression of the IGF1 receptor in the primary breast tumor tissue.
This is the first study to suggest that it might be possible to personalize recommended diets for breast cancer survivors based on the molecular characteristics of their primary tumor.
Recent dietary studies suggest that this diet reduces the incidence of events related to the disease including heart attack
There's a wealth of research that suggests that the Mediterranean diet --which includes lycopene found in tomatoes
It reinforces the need for a healthy diet in people at risk from heart disease and stroke.
#Grain legume crops sustainable, nutritiouspopular diets across the world typically focus on the right balance of essential components like protein fat and carbohydrates.
Diets that do not provide adequate amounts of micronutrients lead to a variety of diseases that affect most parts of the human body.
which makes them so well-suited to a diet of low quality grass and other plants.
According to the practice paper nutrition assessment is essential for identifying dietary intake and nutritional factors that may affect a person's oral health.
The biggest effect the vouchers had was related to the quality of participants'diets. Those who used the farmers market vouchers ate a greater variety of vegetables
The Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend increased vegetable consumption to reduce the risk of heart disease certain cancers obesity type 2 diabetes high blood pressure osteoporosis and kidney stones.
Along with other staple foods such as corn rice and wheat the potato forms a substantial portion of the modern human diet.
Rice blast is a relentless killer a force to be reckoned with especially as rice is a staple in the daily diet of more than half the world's population--that's over 3 billion people Bais notes.
study showsresearch by the University of Liverpool has found that eating prunes as part of a weight control diet can improve weight loss.
if low fiber consumers could tolerate eating substantial numbers of prunes in their diet and if eating prunes had a beneficial effect on appetite.
Maintaining a healthy diet is challenging. Along with fresh fruit and vegetables dried fruit can provide a useful and convenient addition to the diet especially as controlling appetite during dieting can be tough.
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and upgrade their diets by adding more meat and processed foods to staples such as crops and starches.
The shift toward a diet higher in calories and richer in protein could lift many in hunger-stricken regions such as Sub-saharan africa South Asia China and Mongolia above the malnutrition line.
and grocery stores represent a much greater share of young children's diets. This report suggests important improvements over the past decade in the food shopping behaviors of American families with young children.
and how that impacted the overall quality of a child's diet. Between 1940 and the 1990s she says the curve makes a big X with soft drink consumption going up
#Poor diet before pregnancy linked with preterm birthuniversity of Adelaide research has confirmed for the first time that women who eat a poor diet before they become pregnant are around 50%more likely to have a preterm birth than those on a healthy diet.
It's the first study of its kind to assess women's diet prior to conception and its association with outcomes at birth.
It is important to consume a healthy diet before as well as during pregnancy to support the best outcomes for the mum and baby Dr Grieger says.
We hope our work will help promote a healthy diet before and during pregnancy. This will help to reduce the number of neonatal deaths
#Low-carb vegan diet may reduce heart disease risk, weightresearchers at St michael's Hospital have shown for the first time that
The diet often called Eco-Atkins is a low-carbohydrate vegan diet. Many low-carbohydrate diets have been proven to improve weight loss
but most emphasize eating animal proteins and fats which may raise cholesterol. Diets that are high in vegetable proteins
and oils may reduce the risk of heart disease by lowering bad cholesterol. We killed two birds with one stone
We designed a diet that combined both vegan and low-carb elements to get the weight loss and cholesterol-lowering benefits of both.
The findings which were published in British Medical Journal Open compared Eco-Atkins to a high-carbohydrate low-fat diet.
The Eco-Atkins diet reduced cholesterol by 10 per cent while also helping participants lose an average of four more pounds than the high-carbohydrate low-fat diet over six months.
because study participants selected their own diets and were able to adjust to their needs
With an exchange list of interchangeable food items participants were better able to adapt the diet to their personal tastes
--which helped to encourage adherence to the diet. Twenty-three obese men and women completed the six-month diet.
#Ape ancestors teeth provide glimpse into their diets and environments: Helped apes move to Eurasia,
may have led to extinctionnewly analyzed tooth samples from the great apes of the Miocene indicate that the same dietary specialization that allowed the apes to move from Africa to Eurasia may have led to their extinction according to results published May 21 2014 in the open access journal
Their diet closely relates to the environment in which they live and each type of diet wears the teeth differently.
To better understand the apes'diet during their evolution and expansion into new habitat scientists analyzed newly-discovered wearing in the teeth of 15 upper
They combined these analyses with previously collected data for other Western Eurasian apes categorizing the wear on the teeth into one of three ape diets:
and Turkey suggested that the great ape's diet evolved from hard-shelled fruits and seeds to leaves but these findings only contained samples from the early-Middle and Late Miocene while lack data from the epoch of highest diversity
In their research the scientists found that in contrast with the diet of hard-shelled fruits
and a diet specializing in leaves did not evolve. The authors suggest that a progressive dietary diversification may have occurred due to competition
#Healthy diet linked with better lung function in COPD patientssure everyone knows a healthy diet provides lots of health benefits for patients with respiratory diseases
Limited diet records were available for 2167 ECLIPSE participants who provided dietary intake information at eight time points over a three-year period.
This study demonstrates the nearly immediate effects a healthy diet can have on lung function in in a large and well-characterized population of COPD patients Hanson said.
Based on these results and the results of other studies indicating a link between COPD and diet the role of diet as a possible modifiable risk factor in COPD warrants continued investigation she added.
Rates of asthma in the U s. have been climbing in the last 40 years coinciding with a switch in U s. diets from lard
You get Vitamin e from your diet or supplements. In 2012 research she identified a mechanism for gamma-tocopherol increasing lung inflammation:
Surprising relationships between diet and hormones that suppress eatingby comparing how gut microbes from human vegetarians
and grass-grazing baboons digest different diets researchers have shown that ancestral human diets so called paleo diets did not necessarily result in better appetite suppression.
The study published in mbioâ the online open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology reveals surprising relationships between diet
While Western diets have changed dramatically in the last century to become high energy low fiber
and diets interact to control appetites is vitally important for tackling the problem of obesity said Glenn Gibson co-author on the study based at University of Reading.
The team established gut bacteria cultures in flasks and then'fed'them two different diets--either a predigested potato high-starch diet or a predigested grass high-fiber diet.
This evidence argues that the previous view of paleo diets and appetite suppression is flawed and that high-fiber plant-based diets likely do not lead to increased SCFAS and increased appetite suppression.
Rather the researchers propose little to no appetite suppression might help baboons maintain grazing all day to consume enough nutrients.
The findings published in the journal PNAS help to explain why some previous studies have shown that a Mediterranean diet can reduce blood pressure.
The Mediterranean diet typically includes unsaturated fats found in olive oil nuts and avocados along with vegetables like spinach celery and carrots that are rich in nitrites and nitrates.
However nitro fatty acids were found to lower the blood pressure of normal mice following the same diets.
The findings of our study help to explain why previous research has shown that a Mediterranean diet supplemented with extra-virgin olive oil
fatty acids within its tissues on a diet of carbohydrates or saturated fats. Called essential because they are necessary to maintain important bodily functions omega fatty acids cannot naturally be synthesized by mammals
Numerous studies have shown that diets rich in omega-3 fatty acids reduce the risks and effects of cardiovascular disease and may have other health benefits.
and seeds--are also essential to health they are quite common in the Western diet
While it is believed that humans evolved on a diet equally balanced between the two fatty acids the typical Western diet--rich in omega-6s
Part of the reason for the controversy Kang explains is that studies using diet to create different omega-6/omega-3 ratios in animal models may introduce changes caused by other dietary factors such as calories potentially confounding the results.
Littermates fed a identical diet high in saturated fats and carbohydrates and low in omega-6s had these differences in their muscle tissues:
Even when fed a high-carbohydrate fat-free diet both the Omega and fat-2 strains produced significant levels of both essential fatty acids.
Improving diet and lifestyle is critical for heart and stroke risk reduction in the general population said Yan Qu M d. the study's senior author director of the intensive care unit at Qingdao Municipal Hospital and professor at the Medical College of Qingdao University
In particular a diet rich in fruits and vegetables is recommended highly because it meets micronutrient and macronutrient and fiber requirements without adding substantially to overall energy requirements.
A diet rich in a variety of colors and types of vegetables and fruits is a way of getting important nutrients that most people don't get enough of including vitamins minerals and dietary fiber.
and diet related aspects of Tofu such as being high in protein and calcium or that it has no cholesterol only resulted in a 12%increase in the likelihood of purchase.
In no time they'll be making Tofu Scramble Stir fry and all the other dishes the Tofu lovers in the study listed as big parts of their diets.
Its diet is deficient in essential nutrients called amino acids. The aphid can produce some amino acids on its own
That conversion of going from a diet with an inappropriate nutritional profile to an appropriate profile occurs in collaboration between the bacteria
and it's deficient in the pea aphid's diet. Glutamine is ferried across a membrane that surrounds the cells where the bacteria lives by an amino acid transporter named Apglnt1.
#Summer grazing enables high milk yield of dairy cowspart-time grazing is a good alternative to full-time silage diet of dairy cows.
The study included nine different dietary experiments with concentrate supplement varying from zero to 12 kg provided twice a day as the cows were milked.
One of the experiments looked into the physiological factors of a diet of freshly cut grass in tie-stall conditions.
This means that the proportion of concentrate in the diet can be the same during the most part of lactation.
and swine diets he said. The outcome is that the animals grow faster. At the same time if you use low doses of antibiotics extensively that poses selective pressure on bacteria in the digestive tract of these animals and results in antibiotic resistance.
The study underscores the work of previous researchers who have shown that many African american children do not get the recommended levels of calcium in their diet.
Twenty percent of participating children consumed no milk in their diet whatsoever and 55 percent consumed less than one serving of milk per day.
What got us interested in this is the whole question of how the environment--including a person's diet--influences gene expression said Tosi.
and dairy in our diets would reduce nitrogen air and water pollution and greenhouse gas emissions while freeing up large areas of farmland for other purposes such as food export or bioenergy.
for instance from exotic tomatoes or pineapples of which there are a great variety--but also from any other fruit or vegetable that is a part of our diet.
Rice is also being used to enrich diets with more fiber. The article online can be found at:
and include more fish oil/omega-3s in their diets. Maintaining a healthy digestive system and immune health also are top health priorities
and are often the first to try a new health food nutritional product or diet (Packaged Foods 2013c).
Whole grains fiber and Vitamin d topped the list of ingredients that two-thirds of those trying to manage their weight added to the diet
Pursuing changing human diets away from food animal products--Rice acknowledged that this recommendation may be controversial
Such a strong relationship to food has had a profound impact on human health by reshaping environmental biodiversity influencing the diets of neighbors and preserving elements of culture.
Their next step was to add tomatidine to the diet of mice. They found that healthy mice supplemented with tomatidine grew bigger muscles became stronger
We have a lot of room in our diets for increasing our pulse intake to derive the cardiovascular benefits Dr. Sievenpiper said.
because their diets are poorer and cholesterol levels are higher and benefit more markedly from a healthier diet.
Some study participants reported stomach upset such as bloating gas diarrhea or constipation but these symptoms subsided over the course of the study.
Wheat in particular provides nearly one-fourth of all protein in the global human diet. Many previous laboratory studies had demonstrated that elevated levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide inhibited nitrate assimilation in the leaves of grain and non-legume plants;
Participants also had to refrain from taking any medication for blood pressure or making any significant changes in their lifestyle particularly related to diet and exercise during the study.
The scientists fed groups of mice different diets including high-fat and low-fat diets and high-fat diets supplemented with different kinds of flavanols.
They found that adding one particular set of these compounds known as oligomeric procyanidins (PCS) to the food made the biggest difference in keeping the mice's weight down
if they were on high-fat diets. They also improved glucose tolerance which could potentially help prevent type-2 diabetes.
While they are a major economic driver for the U s. economy the legume is also crucial to the diets and livelihoods of millions of small farmers in Asia and Africa many of
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