News tagged with american journal of clinical nutrition

Pancreatic cancers use fructose, common in the Western diet, to fuel their growth

(PhysOrg.com) -- Pancreatic cancers use the sugar fructose, very common in the Western diet, to activate a key cellular pathway that drives cell division, helping the cancer to grow more quickly, a study by ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 03, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (17) | comments 15 | with audio podcast

Muscle: 'Hard to build, easy to lose' as you age

(PhysOrg.com) -- Have you ever noticed that people have thinner arms and legs as they get older? As we age it becomes harder to keep our muscles healthy. They get smaller, which decreases strength and increases the likelihood ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Sep 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 3

Alternate-Day Fasting Shows Promise for Obese Dieters

(PhysOrg.com) -- Restricting daily calorie intake is a common plan to help obese and overweight people slim down to healthier weights. But the regime requires a daily 15 to 40 percent calorie reduction, which makes sticking ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 1

Receptor activated exclusively by glutamate discovered on tongue

One hundred years ago, Kikunae Ikeda discovered the flavour-giving properties of glutamate, a non essential amino acid traditionally used to enhance the taste of many fermented or ripe foods, such as ripe ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

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Fish oil supplements provide no benefit to brain power

The largest ever trial of fish oil supplements has found no evidence that they offer benefits for cognitive function in older people.

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created Apr 21, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (8) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Studies provide more support for health benefits of coffee

Multitudes of people worldwide begin each day with a cup of steaming hot coffee. Although it is sometimes referred to as "the devil's brew," coffee contains several nutrients (eg, calcium) as well as hundreds of potentially ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 15, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 4

Flavonoids in orange juice suppress oxidative stress from high-fat, high-carb meal

Eating foods containing flavonoids -- orange juice, in this case -- along with a high-fat, high-carbohydrate fast-food meal neutralizes the oxidative and inflammatory stress generated by the unhealthy food and helps prevent ...

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created Mar 30, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Study sheds new light on why breast-fed babies grow more slowly

Breast-fed babies grow more slowly than formula-fed babies, which is why new growth charts, based solely on the growth patterns of breast fed babies, are being introduced in the UK in May. This slower pattern of growth in ...

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created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (7) | comments 4

Drinking milk in the morning may help stave off lunchtime hunger

Now there's a new reason for the weight-conscious to drink fat free milk at breakfast time, suggests a new study published in the July issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Researchers in Australia found that d ...

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created Jun 22, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 3

Research supports calls to study health benefits of nitrate, nitrite

A Michigan State University researcher is challenging health standards that consider nitrates and nitrites in food to be harmful.

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created Aug 20, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

New vitamin K analysis supports the triage theory

An important analysis conducted by Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute scientists suggests the importance of ensuring optimal dietary intakes of vitamin K to prevent age-related conditions such as bone fragility, ...

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Large epidemiologic study supports brain power of fish in older people

Experts estimate that over 24 million people worldwide suffer from dementia, and many of these people live in low- and middle-income countries. Recently, there has been growing interest in whether dietary factors, particularly ...

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created Jul 17, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Variants of 'umami' taste receptor contribute to our individualized flavor worlds

Using a combination of sensory, genetic, and in vitro approaches, researchers from the Monell Center confirm that the T1R1-T1R3 taste receptor plays a role in human umami (amino acid) taste.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jul 08, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

New study shows science should trump politics in salt debate, editorial says

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study showing that sodium consumption in the United States has remained unchanged for more than 40 years provides further evidence that federal efforts to reduce salt intake are both futile and unnecessary, ...

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created Nov 04, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Do soy isoflavones boost bone health?

Scientists already know much about the more than 200 bones that make up your body. But mysteries remain regarding the exact role that many natural compounds in foods might play in strengthening our skeletons. Those compounds ...

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created Jul 30, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (AJCN) is a monthly peer-reviewed academic journal in the fields of nutrition and dietetics. With an impact factor of 6.6, it is the highest-ranked journal in ISI's nutrition category.

The journal was established in 1952 and is published by the American Society for Nutrition (ASN) and electronically by HighWire Press. According to the ASN, as of 2009[update] the journal had a circulation of 3,700 and its online version received, on average, more than 3 million hits per month. As of June 2009[update], the journal's editor in chief was Dennis M. Bier, Professor of Pediatrics at the Baylor College of Medicine and Director of the Children's Nutrition Research Center.

A poll conducted in 2009 by the Biomedical and Life Sciences Division (DBIO) of the Special Libraries Association identified the AJCN as among the "100 most influential journals ... over the last 100 years" in the fields of biology and medicine.

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