News tagged with poor nutrition

Availability of local food key to improving food security

Most strategies to assist the hungry, including food banks and providing food stamps through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, are short-term, emergency solutions. Those who rely on these programs ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Researchers unlock the potential for exploring kidney regeneration

It is estimated that up to 10 percent of the U.S. population may have some form of renal disease, with 450,000 patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD) requiring hemodialysis. Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital, ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Feb 01, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Eat a carrot, hurt the economy? Sometimes

Eating a healthy diet may be good for you, but it may be unintentionally slimming for the economies of some developing countries, a new study says. British researchers modeled what could happen if people in Britain and Brazil ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 11, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Study finds low birth weight may cause lifelong problems processing medications

New research has found that a mother's poor nutrition during pregnancy and nursing can cause problems for her offspring's ability to process medications, even well into adulthood.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 10, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Patients with gum disease benefit from osteoporosis drug

A drug marketed to grow bone in osteoporosis patients also works to heal bone wounds in gum disease patients, a University of Michigan study suggests.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Oct 18, 2010 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Short people more prone to heart disease: study

Short people are at greater risk of developing heart disease than tall people, according to the first systematic review and meta-analysis of all the available evidence, which is published online today in the European Heart Jo ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 08, 2010 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

No single cause for mass die off of honey bees: OIE

The huge die off of bees worldwide, a major threat to crops depending on the honey-making insects for pollination, is not due to any one single factor, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said Wednesday.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 28, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 1

Long neglected nutritional training for doctors at all levels needed now

The profession must take advantage of changes in medical education to ensure that all health professionals, but especially gut specialists, are given adequate training in nutrition, urge Dr Penny Nield and colleagues, in ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Mar 18, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

One more reason to promote the family dinner

(PhysOrg.com) -- Health experts have long held that children shouldn't watch more than one to two hours a day of television. Too much screen time encourages sedentary behaviour and contributes to rising levels of obesity. ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 28, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists follow live infection by food-poisoning bacteria Listeria

Scientists in Portugal and France managed to follow the patterns of gene expression in food-poisoning bacteria Listeria monocytogenes (L. monocytogenes) live during infection for the first time. The work ab ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Taste, odor intervention improves cancer therapy

Cancer and its therapies, including chemotherapy and radiotherapy, may directly alter and damage taste and odor perception, possibly leading to patient malnutrition, and in severe cases, significant morbidity, according to ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0