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Nutrition / Diet News From Medical News Today
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• Applying Systematic Review To The Field Of Nutrition
  Posted on 3 Dec 2008 at 9:00am
  Performing systematic reviews of nutrition related topics raises unique challenges not often encountered in the field of medicine. In a new article, a team of researchers use specific examples to describe the steps, strengths, and limitations of systematic reviews relevant to nutrition and discuss the factors that impact the results.
  
• Unstable Housing, Child Hunger And Poor Health Linked By Study
  Posted on 3 Dec 2008 at 9:00am
  A new study shows that children whose families move frequently or live in overcrowded conditions are more likely to suffer from hunger and poor health than those in stable housing. The study was carried out by the Children's Sentinel Nutrition Assessment Program (C-SNAP) which has the largest clinical data base on poor children under age three in America. C-SNAP has been reporting on the impact of economic conditions and public policies on children's health since 1998.
  
• New Class Of Lipids Suggests New Treatment Approach For Heart Attacks
  Posted on 3 Dec 2008 at 9:00am
  Researchers have discovered one potential mechanism by which briefly cutting off, then restoring, blood flow to arteries prior to a heart attack lessens the damage caused, according to a study published in the journal Cardiovascular Research. The new mechanism points to how future drugs could provide protection ahead of heart attacks and strokes for those at highest risk. In the nearer term, the work may help to prevent damage caused as U.S.
  
• Secreted Protein Sends Signal That Fat Is On The Way
  Posted on 3 Dec 2008 at 7:00am
  After you eat a burger and fries or other fat-filled meal, a protein produced by the liver may send a signal that fat is on the way, suggests a report in the December issue of the journal Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication. Researchers have found in mice that the liver produces a protein called adropin, which rises in response to high-fat foods and falls after fasting.
  
• Institute For Food, Nutrition And Health To Be Established At Rutgers Using $...
  Posted on 3 Dec 2008 at 6:00am
  Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, has received a four-year, $10 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to establish the Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health, on its George H. Cook Campus. Rutgers President Richard L. McCormick announced his intention to establish the new institute during his Annual Address to the University Community on Sept. 19.