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March 21, 2013

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5:00 AM | AHPA Suggests Improvements to NIH LiverTox Database

AHPA finds the database is more structured for drugs, not herbals and dietary supplement materials.

March 20, 2013

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1:23 PM | It’s Pineapple Season, But Does Your Fruit Come From Hawaii?

While Hawaii was once the big kahuna in pineapple production, it's since been overtaken by other global powers

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11:00 AM | The Link Between Gut Bacteria and Good Nutrition

Today in the Journal of the American Medical Association is a short piece by Friedrich highlighting a link between malnutrition and gut microflora. The author discusses a study conducted in toddler twins in Malawi; half of the twins were healthy, and the other half were malnourished at some stage during their first three years of life. The gut microflora of the malnourished twins was ?immature? compared to that of the healthy twins. Interestingly, during feeding with a peanut-based ready-to-use […]

March 19, 2013

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11:00 AM | What Can Happen in a Decade? Associations Between Vitamin D in Pregnancy and Bone in Late Childhood

Think back to 2003. What were you doing then? How have you changed in a decade? For a fetus, ten years is an incredible amount of time. In that time, potential human goes from being completely dependent on another for all its needs to a fully functioning person that is mostly able to take care of itself. Increases in body size are incredible in this time. Most infants are born with a weight between 3 and 4 kg, while a ten year old boy will weigh between 30 and 40 kg. Recently, Lawlor and […]

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5:00 AM | NPA Calls for National GMO Labeling Standard

Natural Products Association joins growing movement, saying consumers have a right to know what’s in their food.

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5:00 AM | Codex Committee on Fats and Oils Publishes Session Report

GOED notes key points related to proposed draft standards for fish oils.

March 18, 2013

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11:00 AM | Processed Foods, Essential Nutrients, and Healthy Children

Eating is easy. Unfortunately nutrition is complicated. Am I eating too much? Or too little? Should I eat more protein and less sugar? What about fat? Isn?t it bad for me? Wait, experts say it is good to consume more olive oil and to take fish or algal omega-3 fatty acids. Does this sound confusing? Yes, and we haven?t even started on essential vitamins and minerals.Nor have we discussed the fact that nutrient requirements for women differ from men. Children have different needs when growing […]

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5:00 AM | GAO Report Examines Adverse Events from Supplements

Of 6,307 reports of health problems associated with dietary supplements from 2008-2011, 71% were reported from industry.

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5:00 AM | Affordable Care Act Extended Preventive Care to 71 Million Americans

Health Care law’s third anniversary sees health costs slowing down, more value for consumers.

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5:00 AM | Weight Management Market to Exceed $40 Billion by 2016

U.S. sales of weight management products—including foods and beverages, meal replacements and diet aids, and commercial weight management programs—will reach $38 billion in 2013 and $40.9 billion in 2016, according to a new report.

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5:00 AM | Mid-Calorie Carbonates Creating Choice & Confusion

Big soft drink players turn to variety of sweetener combinations to reduce calories.

March 15, 2013

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1:34 PM | Is Corned Beef Really Irish?

The rise and fall and rise of the traditional St. Patrick's Day meal

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11:00 AM | Omega-3 Fatty Acids, EPA, DHA, and Heart Health

Omega-3 fatty acids are heart healthy. The American Heart Association endorses eating fish (particularly fatty fish) at least two times (two servings) a week. The FDA has approved a health claim for two omega-3 fatty acids, eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), with respect to reducing the risk of coronary heart disease. How do DHA and EPA reduce cardiovascular risk?One proposed mechanism is to reduce triglycerides, a cardiovascular risk factor. Normal triglyceride […]

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11:00 AM | Vitamin A Deficiency, Dietary Supplementation, and the Value of a Child

Vitamin A deficiency causes blindness. Vitamin A deficiency increases mortality, especially during the first 5y of life. Worldwide, nearly 19,000 children under five die every day. It is estimated that 190 million children under 5 suffer from vitamin A deficiency. Vitamin A supplementation saves lives. The question scientists ask is, ?How many??In 2010, Imdad and colleagues published a review of 43 randomized control trials (RCT) representing 215,633 children (6 mo ? 5y) given vitamin A […]

March 14, 2013

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11:00 AM | Vitamin A Deficiency, Dietary Supplementation, and the Value of a Child

Vitamin A deficiency causes blindness. Vitamin A deficiency increases mortality, especially during the first 5y of life. Worldwide, nearly 19,000 children under five die every day. It is estimated that 190 million children under 5 suffer from vitamin A deficiency. Vitamin A supplementation saves lives. The question scientists ask is, ?How many??In 2010, Imdad and colleagues published a review of 43 randomized control trials (RCT) representing 215,633 children (6 mo ? 5y) given vitamin A […]

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5:00 AM | USDA Secretary Outlines Efforts to Raise Healthier Children

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack addresses the nation's obesity and malnutrition epidemic in children.

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5:00 AM | Nestlé Commits to Global Nutrition Goals

Company aims to provide 200 billion servings of micronutrient fortified products worldwide by 2016, with a special focus on children and women of childbearing age.

March 13, 2013

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2:13 PM | Hey Vegans! There May Be Fish Bladder in Your Guinness

Isinglass, a gelatine collected from the air-bladders of freshwater fish like the sturgeon, is used in the clarification process of some stouts

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11:00 AM | Vitamin D3 More Effective than D2 in Maintaining Optimal Status

It is generally recognized that many people are vitamin D insufficient, if not deficient. Although it is the ?sunshine vitamin?, serum 25(OH)D levels are low because of the few foods which are naturally rich in vitamin D (or allowed to be fortified) our increasing tendency to be indoors and to wear sunscreen when outside. The solution is vitamin D supplementation. But according to new research not all dietary vitamin D sources are equivalent.Vitamin D comes in two forms. Vitamin D3 […]

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5:00 AM | Consumers Take Supplements to ‘Improve’ or ‘Maintain’ Overall Health

Supplement users are more likely to report very good or excellent health, have health insurance, use alcohol moderately, eschew cigarette smoking and exercise more frequently than non-users, according to research in published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

March 12, 2013

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11:00 AM | Multiple Micronutrient Interactions with Nutritional Anemia

Iron deficiency anemia is a considerable problem globally. It is the fourteenth largest contributor to worldwide disease burden. Women of childbearing age, pregnant women, and young children are the main risk groups for iron deficiency anemia. While many people consider low intakes of iron-rich foods, anti-nutrition factors in foods, and intestinal parasites to be the main causes of iron deficiency anemia, because they reduce the supply or increase the need for iron in the diet, there are other […]

March 11, 2013

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11:00 AM | The Adequacy of European Teenage Diets

Adolescence is nutritionally demanding, yet it occurs at a time when teenagers are establishing a sense of independence and undergo dramatic physiological and psychological changes. Teenagers must make sure that they have an adequate diet to support their high growth rate. Nutritional recommendations are based on age and gender. Adolescents have specific requirements than older or younger people due to the considerable increases in height and weight that they undergo. Diethelm and co-workers […]

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5:00 AM | New York Judge Strikes Down Bloomberg’s Ban on Sugary Drinks

Judgment comes 1 day before rule was set to take effect; Mayor’s office set to challenge the decision.

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5:00 AM | NAD Refers Star Herbs Advertising to FTC

Company declined to participate in review of claims made on dietary supplement marketed for blood pressure reduction.

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5:00 AM | Whole Foods Market Commits to Full GMO Transparency

Company establishes 5-year deadline for labeling GMOs to become the first national grocery chain to set a date for full GMO transparency.

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5:00 AM | Ajinomoto to Acquire Althea Technologies for $175 Million

Ajinomoto intends to strengthen its business foundation and expand in the rapidly growing advanced biomedical field.

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5:00 AM | New European Trade Association Formed

Food Supplements Europe will look for solutions on regulatory, scientific and technical matters based on knowledge, dialogue and transparency.

March 08, 2013

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10:59 PM | Why clinical nutrition trials give misleading results

Vitamins, minerals and other so-called essential nutrients are substances that the body needs to function but cannot make, or cannot make in sufficient amounts. Therefore, by definition, an adequate supply of these substances is essential for good health; a shortage must eventually lead to dysfunction or disease. This is why governments spend large sums of money to develop dietary guidelines and recommended dietary intakes for individual nutrients.If nutrients are so obviously important, then […]

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11:00 AM | Changing the World by Addressing Hidden Hunger

Leaders from government, academics, non-government, and universities gathered this week in Stuttgart Germany at Hohenheim University to address micronutrient deficiencies globally. The goals of the organizers of the International Congress of Hidden Hunger were to create awareness and get the issue of inadequate intakes of essential micronutrients on the agenda of key opinion leaders from government, academics, and industry.As emphasized by Stephen Tanda, Managing Board Member of DSM, […]

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5:00 AM | A Third of U.S. Adults Cutting Out Gluten

Thirty percent of adults report avoiding gluten, and interest in gluten-free menu items at restaurants is also growing, according to a new NPD report.