Childhood obesity can only be tackled with broad public health interventions
Public health researchers from The University of Manchester have found single dietary interventions are not effective at increasing fruit and vegetable consumption among overweight children and will not halt the global epidemic in childhood obesity.
January 21, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: among-overweight, diet, effective-at-increasing, global-epidemic, halt-the-global, on call diets, single-dietary, will-not
High-quality whey proteins for foodstuffs
Whey resulting from cheese production contains valuable proteins that still often remain unused. In the EU-funded project Whey2Food the University of Hohenheim and the Fraunhofer IGB, together with partners from industry, are investigating how high-quality whey proteins can be obtained for food with the assistance of a new electromembrane process.
January 21, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: assistance, cheese-production, diet, fraunhofer, igb, on call diets, oncalldiets, the-assistance, university, whey-proteins, whey2, whey2food-the-university
A versatile gut bacterium helps us get our daily dietary fiber
University of British Columbia researchers have discovered the genetic machinery that turns a common gut bacterium into the Swiss Army knife of the digestive tract – helping us metabolize a main component of dietary fibre from the cell walls of fruits and vegetables.
January 21, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: british, cell, cell-walls, common-gut, dietary-fibre, digestive, genetic, knife, main-component, nutrition, oncalldietitian.com, swiss, swiss-army, the-digestive, the-genetic
