Proper nutrition offers one of the most effective and least costly ways to decrease the burden of numerous diseases and their associated risk factors. Modern nutritional research significantly contributes to improving health of both current and future generations. An important part of nutrition and health is immuno-nutrition, which can be defined as the effect of the provision of specific nutri...

1Southern Illinois University Nutrition Department, Carbondale, IL, USA; Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA (Former Affiliation Universities where part of the USDA/NIFA funded work on sensory nutrition education with exotic fruits and vegetables, was completed) 2Department of Computer Science, Southern Illinois Uni...

Awareness of the nutritional requirements of inpatients has been sadly neglected for many years. Students in British medical schools are taught little about clinical nutrition and the role of the dietitian. Dietitians, on the other hand, spend four years learning the science of nutrition and dietetics. In most hospitals in Britain dietitians are responsible for giving advice on a wide range of ...

Nazanin Abbaspour, Richard Hurrell1, Roya Kelishadi2 Department of Environmental Systems Science, Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystem, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, 1Department of Health Sciences and Technology, Laboratory of Human Nutrition, Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland, 2Child Growth and Development Researc...

2010;23(2) S Afr J Clin Nutr Venter I, M Nutrition Winterbach A, BTech Consumer Science: Food and Nutrition Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa Correspondence to: Ms I Venter, e-mail: [email protected]

Chiyoko Usui1,2, Motoko Taguchi3, Kazuko Ishikawa-Takata4 and Mitsuru Higuchi5 1Department of Health Promotion and Exercise, National Institute of Health and Nutrition, 2Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 3Japan Women’s College of Physical Education, 4Department of Nutritional Education, National Institute of Health and Nutrition, 5Faculty of Sport Sciences, Wase...

Wanxue WEN*, Xiaoling CHEN*, Zhiqing HUANG**, Meng XU, Daiwen CHEN, Bing YU, Jun HE, Junqiu LUO, Xiangbing MAO, Jie YU, Ping ZHENG, Hong CHEN Key Laboratory for Animal Disease-Resistance Nutrition of China Ministry of Education, Institute of Animal Nutrition, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, Sichuan, P.R. China College of Food Science, Sichuan Agricultural University, Yaan, Sichuan, P....

Br J Sports Med 2012;46:75–76. doi:10.1136/bjsm.2010.090748 75 1Department of Performance Nutrition, English Institute of Sport, Loughborough, UK 2Department of Nutrition & Health, Nestle Research Centre, Lausanne, Switzerland 3School of Sport Science, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia 4Australian Institute of Sport, Canberra, Australia 5Performance Infl uencers Ltd, Londo...