Issue 95 BURR and colleagues, University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff, UK, michael.burr@bro-taf-ha.nhs.uk, have found that dietary advice does not benefit men with angina.... more CHARIOT and BIGNANI, Department of Pathology, Hopital Henri-Mondor, Creteil, France, patrick.cheriot@rpc.ap-hop-paris.fr, have reviewed (92 references) skeletal muscle disorders associated with Selenium deficiency .... more WOZNIAK and colleagues, Specjalistycznej Przychodni ICZMP w Lodzi, have assessed the effectiveness of acupuncture to reduce weight in conjunction with a low-calorie diet in women.... more Issue 34 HOLLOSZY, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA. writes that food restriction increases maximum life span in rodents, but that male rats that exercise in voluntary running wheels do not have an increased... more KAWAI and colleagues, Department of Neuroscience, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Medicine, Okayama University Medical School, Japan. mokawai@cc.okayama-u.ac.jp. studied, in rats, the effects of Manda, a yeast fermented product of several fruits and bl... more RIORDAN and colleagues, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge reviewed the available literature (41 references) regarding associations between onset of Crohn’s disease and intakes of sugars or sugar-containing foods.... more SIU and colleagues, Department of Optometry and Radiography, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong studied how melatonin and vitamin E antioxidants protect cells from the damaging effects of free radicals.... more Issue 31 BAUM and colleagues, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Miami, School of Medicine, Florida 33136 USA studied the independent contribution of immune and nutritional factors upon survival in HIV.... more | Issue 31 cont'd CRAIG, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan USA writes that consuming a diet rich in plant foods containing phytochemicals and nonnutritive plant substances will confer health-protective benefits. Phenolic compounds, terpenoids, pigments and natur... more MACRIDES and colleagues, Department of Medical Laboratory Science, RMIT-University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia compared the hydroxyl radical (OH) quenching abilities of the following antioxidant compounds: 1) 5 beta-scymnol, the hepatoprotective shark... more SANTOS and colleagues, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University, Boston MA 02111 USA write that providing healthy elderly people with dietary supplements of beta-carotene has been considered a method to enhance their immun... more Issue 25 FOSTER, Department of Geography, University of Victoria, British Columbia Canada writes that cancer and heart disease display spatial patterns suggesting the possible involvement of calcium and selenium deficiencies and mercury excess in their aetiologies.... more KARJALAINEN and colleagues, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, University of Turku Finland, as part of the long-term prospective randomised dietary intervention at age 7 months to prevent exposure of children to known atherosclerosis risk factors (the STRI... more KEENE and HOPE, University of Oxford, Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford UK write that up to one third of dementia sufferers eat more food at some stage during their dementia compared to before the onset of their illness. Additionally, ov... more MANNISTO and colleagues, National Public Health Institute, Department of Nutrition, Helsinki Finland studied the associations of alcohol beverage drinking with macronutrients, antioxidants and body mass index.... more |
