How a red wine compound may prevent cancer

New research shows, for the first time in the laboratory, how resveratrol stops a mutant protein from aggregating and leading to cancer.

Gut bacteria tell the brain what animals should eat

Neuroscientists have, for the first time, shown that gut bacteria “speak” to the brain to control food choices in animals.

‘Medicinal food’ diet counters onset of type 1 diabetes

Monash University’s Biomedicine Discovery Institute researchers have led an international study that found – for the first time – that a diet yielding high amounts of the short-chain fatty acids…

World-first trial shows improving diet can treat major depression

A new trial from Deakin University has shown for the first time that improving diet quality can treat major depression.

For the first time scientists can observe the nano structure of food in 3-D

Scientists have, for the first time, created a 3-D image of food on the nanometer scale.

Duke obesity experts in special issue on food and health

Two Duke Global Health Institute faculty members have articles in the November issue of Health Affairs, which is devoted entirely to the subject of food and health, marking the first time the…

New research backs belief that tomatoes can be a gout trigger

People who maintain that eating tomatoes can cause their gout to flare up are likely to welcome new research from New Zealand’s University of Otago that has, for the first time, found a biological…

Women’s fertility linked to detox element in diet

University of Adelaide research has for the first time shown how much of a critical role the natural antioxidant selenium plays at the earliest stages of a woman’s fertility.

Link discovered between poor diet before pregnancy and preterm birth

University of Adelaide research has for the first time confirmed that women who eat a poor diet before they become pregnant are around 50% more likely to have a preterm birth than those on a healthy…

Acute heart failure survival predicted by negative iron balance

Negative iron balance predicts survival in patients with acute heart failure, according to research presented for the first time at the Heart Failure Congress 2014 in Athens, Greece.

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