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one carbon folate genetics by Martin Eastwood Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Top of page Genetic polymorphisms in the one-carbon folate pathway have been widely studied in association with a number of conditions. Most of the research has focused on th ... Read on »

obesity and exercise by Martin Eastwood Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Twin studies are an elegant method of resolving complex problems, comparing like with like with one variable different. Exercise is thought to reduce high-risk body fat, but ... Read on »

What nutrients are there in cranberries ? by Martin Eastwood Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating This review by Pappas and Schaich discusses Vaccinium macrocarpon, the American cranberry, recording a comprehensive list of phytochemical components, and their prevalence in ... Read on »

Body mass index and coronary heart disease by Martin Eastwood Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating C G Owen et al ( 2009 ) Is body mass index before middle age related to coronary heart disease risk in later life? Evidence from observational International Journal of Obe ... Read on »

infant taste development by Martin Eastwood Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Taste is a major determinant of children's food preferences, but much has yet to be known of its development with age. This includes the acceptance of tastes and their develop ... Read on »

Physical activity in pregancy. by Martin Eastwood Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating K Melzer et al (2009 ) Pregnancy-related changes in activity energy expenditure and resting metabolic rate in Switzerland . European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 63, 1185&nd ... Read on »

walking and body mass index by Martin Eastwood Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating R Santos et al (2009) .Walking and body mass index in a Portuguese sample of adults: a multilevel analysis. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition 63, 1260–1262; Physic ... Read on »

Predictors of molecular action by Martin Eastwood Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating In a very interesting paper in Nature , Keiser et al discuss methods of predicting molecular targets for new drugs. It is a comprehensive review of drug – target interac ... Read on »

Key events, dose response in Nutrition by Martin Eastwood Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating The September edition of Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition ed Fergus Clydesdale( vol 49 issue 8 ) is devoted to Key events Dose Response Framework. This is a sy ... Read on »

Marathons and risks by Martin Eastwood Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating The first person to run the Marathon was said to be Pheidippides, a Greek messenger sent from the town of Marathon to Athens to announce that the Persians had been defeated i ... Read on »

Jane Austen and sweets by Martin Eastwood Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Many mothers are cautious about sweets for their children especially towards bed time. This is enthusiasm in youngsters is often attributed to E numbered chemicals. Jane Aust ... Read on »

liraglutide and weight management by Martin Eastwood Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Few safe and effective drugs are currently available for the treatment of obesity. This interesting paper looks at the use of liraglutide, a drug used in diabetic control on w ... Read on »

vitamin D supplementation preventing falls by Martin Eastwood Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Vitamin D has direct effects on muscle strength modulated by specific vitamin D receptors in muscle tissue. Clinical trials of older individuals at risk of vitamin D deficienc ... Read on »

key events dose-response analysis in nutrition by Martin Eastwood Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating I have always felt that by reading papers from other scientific disciplines it is possible to learn new techniques which are well tried in another context . A series of 3 pape ... Read on »

reductionism and Nutrition by Martin Eastwood Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating In his 1972 paper "More is different", Philip Anderson claimed that the behaviour of multi-component physical systems may cannot be understood from the laws that ... Read on »

Alzheimer's causation by Martin Eastwood Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating A new theory for the causation of Alzheimer’s is being promoted. An article in Nature and expanded in a review in the same journal suggests that the underlying cause of ... Read on »

Exercise and blood lipids by Martin Eastwood Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating The influence of different types of exercise on risk factors for cardiovascular diseases has rarely been investigated. The aim of a study by Pitsavos et al in the QJM 2009 wa ... Read on »

Fibre to treat the irritable bowel syndrome by Martin Eastwood Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating This is a very good trial of the use of dietary fibre in the treatment of IBS. Increasing the intake of dietary fibre (either insoluble or soluble) is a universally advocated ... Read on »

complications of obesity by Martin Eastwood Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Relative risks of obesity Greatly increased risk ( > 3) Metabolic Type 2 diabetes, gallbladder disease. hypertension, dyslipidaemia, insulin resistance, non-alcoholic f ... Read on »

Surgical treatment of obesity in adults by Martin Eastwood Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Obesity is a health hazard. Leff and Heath in a review in British Medical Journal 26 Sept 2009 p 740-746 state The surgical treatment of obesity can only be proposed if 1. ... Read on »

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