K. Khosravi-Darani1 and M. R. Mozafari2 1Department of Food Technology Research, National Nutrition and Food Technology, Research Institute, Faculty of Nutrition Sciences and Food Technology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, P. O. Box: 19395-4741, Tehran, 2Department of Food Science, Faculty of Food Science and Technology, University Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM, Serdang, Selangor, ...

1Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Zhejiang Key Laboratory for Agro-Food Processing, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China 2Department of Biology, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC 27412, USA 3Institute of Food Science and Technology, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan 4Division of Nutrition, College of Health, University of Utah, Salt La...

Fatih Gultekin1*, Sulhattin Yasar2, Nilgun Gurbuz3, Betul Mermi Ceyhan1 1Department of Medical Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Suleyman Demirel University, Isparta, Turkey 2Department of Animal Science, Discipline of Feeds and Nutrition, School of Agriculture, Suleyman Demirel University, Isparta, Turkey 3Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, School of Health Sciences, Suleyman Demirel Unive...

Scientists are privileged. Our work and our reputations depend on trust. Like all professionals we are expected to keep our houses in order. The career of a scientist may be damaged or destroyed by discovery of misconduct, but such is not a crime against which there is recourse in courts of law. Wrong-doing in science taints the whole scientific endeavour. Here, scientific journals and their ed...

OBJECTIVE To promote the new field of 'public nutrition' as a means to address, in a more efficient, sustainable and ethical manner, the world-wide epidemic of malnutrition--undernutrition and specific nutrient deficiencies, and also obesity and other nutrition-related chronic diseases. STRATEGY Grounded in the health promotion model, public nutrition applies the population health strategy to...

A Review of Acrylamide: An Industry Perspective on Research, Analysis, Formation, and Control DOMINIQUE TAEYMANS a , JOHN WOOD a , PETER ASHBY b , IMRE BLANK c , ALFRED STUDER c , RICHARD H. STADLER c , PIERRE GONDÉ d , PAUL EIJCK d , SAM LALLJIE e , HANS LINGNERT f , MARIANNE LINDBLOM g , REINHARD MATISSEK h , DETFLEF MÜLLER i , DAN TALLMADGE i , JOHN O'BRIEN j , SARA THOMPSON j , DAVID SILVAN...

The symposium entitled “Bringing Science to Early Life Nutrition” was held to honor the contribution of Guenther Boehm to the field of early nutrition during his active career. Boehm has enhanced the development of this important area of research from 2 different viewpoints: first as an independent clinician-scientist and later as research director of a worldleading formula industry. This combi...

he year 1979 marks the centennial of the birth of Elmer Verner McCollum. He was born on a Kansas farm homesteaded by his father in 1863 and received his academic training in chemistry at the University of Kansas and at Yale University. As a member of the faculty of the College of Agriculture at the University of Wisconsin from 1907 to 1917, he gained widespread attention for his pathfinding dis...

A few years ago Reader’s Digest gave an account of the hazards of food. It was a tongue in cheek approach and suggested, for example, that milk on the cereal at breakfast would lead to coronary artery disease, that the bacon contained nitrosamines which would produce cancer, that the coffee was atherogenic and that the sugar added to it and to the cereal was responsible for all manner of ills. ...

1 Office of Energetics and Nutrition Obesity Research Center, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA, 2 Section on Statistical Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA, 3 Department of Nutrition Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA, 4 Department of Biostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingha...