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The food metabolome: 21st century nutrition
Posted on Mon, 28 Apr 14

The food metabolome: 21st century nutrition

Did you know that a complex mixture of tens of thousands of bioactive compounds in food powerfully influence your unique metabolism each day? Understanding how this food metabolome affects our health may revolutionize personalized nutrition.

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Posted on Sun, 1 Apr 12

Crisis In Nutrition (free video)

Why are more people turning to the web and social media for health solutions? It may be that doctors, nutritionists and government health agencies are failing us.

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Calcium: aids weight loss, but confuses scientists
Posted on Mon, 28 Nov 11

Calcium: aids weight loss, but confuses scientists

An important study has found that increasing calcium intake can have a significant positive effect on weight loss and body fat reduction. However, like many studies of nutrients the investigators studied calcium as if it were a drug (its not) and inappropriately dismissed the importance of these findings.

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Herbal and nutritional supplements for anxiety
Posted on Mon, 15 Nov 10

Herbal and nutritional supplements for anxiety

Anxiety disorders affect up to one in four people over the course of their lifetime. To avoid the cost and side effects of conventional medication people are increasingly turning to herbal and nutritional medicines to calm their anxiety. But what actually works?

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Eat food, not nutrients
Posted on Wed, 11 Aug 10

Eat food, not nutrients

Popular nutritional recommendations are outdated, misleading and missing the bigger picture suggest Dariush Mozaffarian and David Ludwig from Harvard University. The standard advice to avoid saturated fat, eat plenty of fibre, and avoid added salt and sugar are impractical, have been corrupted for commercial gain and may not be the best recommendations for your health.

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Gardening gets kids eating, and loving, their greens
Posted on Tue, 27 Jul 10

Gardening gets kids eating, and loving, their greens

Experiential learning is a powerful way to improve eating behaviours in children, and they desperately need to improve as currently less than 10% of children age 4-13 meet healthy eating guidelines. Learning through growing food from seed to table can help.

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