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COVID-19 and Why the Aged Should be Swiftly reminded to take their Vitamin D.
Prevention is easier than cure. This is ringing out loud at the moment as hospitalisation fast increases and beds are becoming in short supply. Bearing this in mind we should…
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Genome-Edited Foods: Are they Coming to our Supermarkets Soon?
Genetically modified (GM) foods were first introduced and approved for human consumption in the 1990s in the United States (US) and about 90% of corn, cotton and soybeans grown in…
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Green and Blue Water Footprints: What Are They & How Do They Relate to Food?
Food Security Food security is having reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food. One necessity to achieve food security is the availability of freshwater resources for agriculture…
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Stress and Micronutrient Concentrations: Do They Impact Each Other?
What is Stress? Stress is the nonspecific response of the body to any threat or difficulty that demands change. These responses are physical changes in the body and can include…
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Does the Nutrition Education of Physicians Need Advancing?
The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study is the most comprehensive worldwide observational epidemiological study to date. It describes mortality and morbidity from major diseases, injuries and risk factors to…
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Palm Oil: Should it Be Given the Same Attention as Single Use Plastics?
Palm oil has been cultivated for more than 5000 years and is the most widely used and consumed vegetable oil in the world today, with it being found in many…
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Folic Acid Fortification: Assessing the Folate Status of Women After 20 Years of Fortification in the US
Folic acid has been added to cereal-grain products in the United States (US) for more than 20 years. Since 1998, enriched cereal grain products have been compulsory in order to…
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Vegetarian and Vegan Diets: Good for Gut Microbiota?
The Human Gut Microbiota The human microbiota is defined as all microbes associated with human beings, these include bacteria, eukaryotes, viruses, fungi, protozoa and archaea. The microbiome denotes the collection…
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Choline: Its Role and Requirements During Pregnancy.
Two papers published in August 2019, one by Korsmo et al, and the other by Wallace et al, both highlight the importance of adequate choline intakes during pregnancy. It is…
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Choline: 30 Food Sources.
In foods, choline is found as both water-soluble and lipid-soluble forms, with the different forms influencing how absorption and metabolism occur. After absorption, water-soluble forms of choline reach the liver…
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Choline: What is It and How Much Do We Need?
What is Choline? Choline is a micronutrient (often classed within the B vitamin family) that is produced by the liver. The amounts produced, however, are not enough to meet human…
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Can Probiotics Help to Lower the Severity and Prevalence of Depression?
Mental disorders comprise a broad range of problems, with varying symptoms. Depression is one such mental illness that is recognised around the world and affects approximately one in ten people,…
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Growing Up: The Rise of Vertical Food Production
Today the population of the world is approximately 7.8 billion, and it is predicted to grow by another 2 billion people by 2050. Arable land is continuingly lost due to…
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A New Outlook on Protein Quality
The current definitions of protein quality are defined by biochemistry and metabolic matrices and are now deemed to be obsolete, inaccurate and potential harmful to public and planetary health. This…
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Protein Consumption: Is it all in the Timing?
Protein is an important component of a healthy diet and it is well established that daily protein intakes are important for sustaining muscular strength and mass. Now, there is growing…
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