Food Dyes can Cause Colitis by Hannah Joy on May 14, 2021 at 4:57 PM
Two food colorants are the risk factors for causing inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
Both genetic predisposition and environmental factors play a role in whether a person develops IBD or not
Artificial food colorants can cause colitis, which is an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) when the immune system has become dysregulated, reveal Icahn School of Medicine researchers at Mount Sinai. The study, published in
Food Dyes can Cause Colitis
The study, conducted in mice, found that the mice developed colitis when they consumed food with the artificial food colorants FD&C Red 40 and Yellow 6 when a specific component of their immune system, known as cytokine IL-23, was dysregulated.
by Hannah Joy on April 23, 2021 at 11:25 PM
Your colleagues influence the food you eat, be it healthy or unhealthy, especially when you sit together to eat, reveals a new study. We found that individuals tend to mirror the food choices of others in their social circles, which may explain one way obesity spreads through social networks, says Douglas Levy, PhD, an investigator at the Mongan Institute Health Policy Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and first author of new research published in
Nature Human Behaviour.
Levy and his co-investigators discovered that individuals eating patterns can be shaped even by casual acquaintances, evidence that corroborates several multi-decade observational studies showing the influence of people s social ties on weight gain, alcohol consumption and eating behavior.
Two Reasons Why Babies Develop Food Allergies by Hannah Joy on April 21, 2021 at 5:14 PM
Babies born by a C-section to mothers of Asian descent are eight times more likely to develop peanut allergy by age three, reveals a new study.
Researchers have found a causal link between caesarean section birth, low intestinal microbiota and peanut sensitivity in infants, and they report the effect is more pronounced in children of Asian descent than others, in a recently published paper in the journal of the
American Gastroenterological Association. It s important to know what predicts or increases risk of food sensitivities because they predict which infants will go on to develop asthma and other types of allergies, said Anita Kozyrskyj, pediatrics professor in the University of Alberta s Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry and adjunct professor in the School of Public Health.
by Hannah Joy on April 20, 2021 at 5:37 PM
Junk foods or ultra-processed foods have a definite negative impact on a child s skeletal growth, reveals a team of researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
The study, led by Professor Efrat Monsonego-Ornan and Dr. Janna Zaretsky from the Department of Biochemistry, Food Science and Nutrition at the University s Faculty of Agriculture, was published in the journal
Bone Research and serves as the first comprehensive study of the effect of widely-available food products on skeleton development.
Ultra-processed foods aka, junk food are food items products that undergo several stages of processing and contain non-dietary ingredients. They re popular with consumers because they are easily accessible, relatively inexpensive and ready to eat straight out of the package.
Ways to Reduce Food Waste and Promote Healthy Eating by Hannah Joy on April 15, 2021 at 5:06 PM
Food waste has drastically increased in the last few years. Therefore, its necessary to follow few strategies to reduce food waste, reveals a new study.
Food waste and obesity are major problems in developed countries. They are both caused by an overabundance of food, but strategies to reduce one can inadvertently increase the other. A broader perspective can help identify ways to limit food waste while also promoting healthy nutrition, two University of Illinois researchers suggest. You can reduce food waste by obtaining less or eating more. Our concern was that if people are reducing waste by eating more, what does that mean for nutrition? And how do we think about these tradeoffs in a way that promotes both good nutrition outcomes and good food waste outcomes? Public policies have generally focused on either obesity or food waste, but rarely considered them