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Diet
Diet: In nutrition, diet is the sum of food consumed by a person or other organism. The word diet often implies the use of specific intake of nutrition for health or weight-management reasons (with the two often being related). Although humans are omnivores, each culture and each person holds some food preferences or some food taboos. This may be due to personal tastes or ethical reasons. Individual dietary choices may be more or less healthy. Complete nutrition requires ingestion and absorption of vitamins, minerals, essential amino acids from protein and essential fatty acids from fat-containing food, also food energy in the form of carbohydrate, protein, and fat. Dietary habits and choices play a significant role in the quality of life, health and longevity.
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Eating disorders like anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are illnesses that involve serious disturbances in eating beh ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 12, 2021Microbiology
Advances in genetic technologies have revolutionized biomedical research in recent years. One example is the discovery t ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 04, 2021Microbiology
The microbial community in our gastrointestinal tract has been shown to have a significant impact on our health and well ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 27, 2020Immunology
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Although baby formula is a completely acceptable alternative for women that have trouble lactating, human milk is still ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 17, 2020Cell & Molecular Biology
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CNIC researchers have found that there is an autoimmune link to cardiovascular disease that may improve diagnostic and t ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 26, 2020Drug Discovery & Development
Reduced food intake, known as dietary restriction, leads to a longer lifespan in many animals and can improve health in ...Written By: Nouran AminNOV 25, 2020Cell & Molecular Biology
The triclosan once commonly added to soap was banned by the FDA a few years ago, but it can still be found in some water ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 22, 2020Genetics & Genomics
Our bodies need cholesterol for certain crucial functions; it's a vital component of cell walls, for example. But there ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 12, 2020Immunology
Nutrition is essential to health; what we eat in our daily diet affects our overall health condition and what diseases w ...Written By: Heba El-wassefNOV 12, 2020Cardiology
Cardiovascular disease is something that, in most cases, is within our ability to control. A healthy diet and active lif ...Written By: Jasper CantrellNOV 05, 2020Cancer
New research published this week in Cell from scientists at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, the Department of Radi ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanNOV 03, 2020Cardiology
Most people know that certain foods are better for our health than others. Some types of food can increase, while other ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 01, 2020Neuroscience
Researchers from Yale University have homed in on a specific kind of neuron that appears to play a sizable role in fatal ...Written By: Annie LennonOCT 29, 2020Cancer
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is known to be a risk factor for liver cancer because of an excess of fat accumulation ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanOCT 26, 2020Genetics & Genomics
People that eat a 'paleo' diet operate under the idea that we should be eating more like our ancestors, and that metabol ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 21, 2020Cancer
Hepatocellular carcinoma, aka liver cancer, is an ever-increasing issue in the western world. While the lion’s sha ...Written By: Jasper Cantrell
JAN 17, 2021
Microbiology
Eating disorders like anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are illnesses that involve serious disturbances in eating beh
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 12, 2021
Microbiology
Advances in genetic technologies have revolutionized biomedical research in recent years. One example is the discovery t
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 04, 2021
Microbiology
The microbial community in our gastrointestinal tract has been shown to have a significant impact on our health and well
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 27, 2020
Immunology
Obesity is a significant problem in our societies with increasing the risk for many diseases, including cancer. Can
...
Written By:
Heba El-wassef
DEC 25, 2020
Immunology
Sitting down to enjoy an indulgent Christmas feast? A recent study in mice by Harvard Medicine scientists found t
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
DEC 24, 2020
Cardiology
Prepared and highly processed foods have become very common, and they've been linked to negative health effects like obe
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 24, 2020
Cancer
New research published in Science Advances is attempting to change the way that we think about cancer. The research
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
DEC 22, 2020
Immunology
A study by researchers at the University of Michigan has found that high levels of cadmium — a heavy metal found i
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
DEC 21, 2020
Microbiology
Although baby formula is a completely acceptable alternative for women that have trouble lactating, human milk is still
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 17, 2020
Cell & Molecular Biology
Water is often recommended as a way to help people lose weight, but usually because it can help people feel full, reduci
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 15, 2020
Immunology
The question everyone tries to find an answer to in the winter season is how can we improve our immunity to fight any in
...
Written By:
Heba El-wassef
DEC 09, 2020
Immunology
In atherosclerosis, cholesterol and other fatty deposits build up around the inner walls of an artery, creating a plaque
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
DEC 07, 2020
Cell & Molecular Biology
CNIC researchers have found that there is an autoimmune link to cardiovascular disease that may improve diagnostic and t
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 26, 2020
Drug Discovery & Development
Reduced food intake, known as dietary restriction, leads to a longer lifespan in many animals and can improve health in
...
Written By:
Nouran Amin
NOV 25, 2020
Cell & Molecular Biology
The triclosan once commonly added to soap was banned by the FDA a few years ago, but it can still be found in some water
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 22, 2020
Genetics & Genomics
Our bodies need cholesterol for certain crucial functions; it's a vital component of cell walls, for example. But there
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 12, 2020
Immunology
Nutrition is essential to health; what we eat in our daily diet affects our overall health condition and what diseases w
...
Written By:
Heba El-wassef
NOV 12, 2020
Cardiology
Cardiovascular disease is something that, in most cases, is within our ability to control. A healthy diet and active lif
...
Written By:
Jasper Cantrell
NOV 05, 2020
Cancer
New research published this week in Cell from scientists at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, the Department of Radi
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
NOV 03, 2020
Cardiology
Most people know that certain foods are better for our health than others. Some types of food can increase, while other
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 01, 2020
Neuroscience
Researchers from Yale University have homed in on a specific kind of neuron that appears to play a sizable role in fatal
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
OCT 29, 2020
Cancer
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is known to be a risk factor for liver cancer because of an excess of fat accumulation
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
OCT 26, 2020
Genetics & Genomics
People that eat a 'paleo' diet operate under the idea that we should be eating more like our ancestors, and that metabol
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 21, 2020
Cancer
Hepatocellular carcinoma, aka liver cancer, is an ever-increasing issue in the western world. While the lion’s sha
...
Written By:
Jasper Cantrell