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Research Updates: nutrition
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Issue 102
HARRIS, Lipid and Diabetes Research Center, Mid America Heart Institute of Saint Luke's Hospital, Kansas City, MO, USA, wharris@saint-lukes.org, has reviewed (48 references) the evidence for health benefits of fish oil suppl1
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Issue 102
OLMEZ and colleagues, Hacettepe University, Ihsan Dogramaci Children's Hospital, Department of Pediatric Neurology, Ankara, Turkey, dr_akgun@yahoo.com, have measured the selenium levels in the blood of children with acute gastro-1
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Issue 99
LOMER and co-workers, Gastrointestinal Laboratory, The Rayne Institute, St Thomas' Hospital, Lambeth Palace Road, London SE1 7EH, UK, miranda.lomer@kcl.ac.uk, have found that the intake of dietary iron is low in patients wit1
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Issue 98
BUIJSSE and colleagues, Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu (RIVM), Centrum voor Voeding an Gezingheid, Postbus 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven, brian.buijsse@rivm.nl, have reviewed (44 references) the association between intak1
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Issue 98
DU and others, Department of Surgery, Huadong Hospital, Shanghai 200040, China, duzhuyi@shl63.net, have studied the therapeutic efficacy of high-dose vitamin C on acute pancreatitis and its potential mechanism.
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Issue 98
MICKLEBOROUGH and others, Department of Kinesiology, Indiana University, 1025 East 7th Street, HPER 112, Bloomington, IN 47401, USA, tmickleb@indiana.edu, have found that fish oil supplementation reduces the severity of exercis1
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Issue 97
FLETCHER and colleagues, Centre for Ageing and Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdoms, astrid.fletcher@lsht.ac.uk, report the findings of a trial on antioxidant vitamins and mortali1
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Issue 97
NELSON and colleagues, Division of Foods and Nutrition, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84115, USA, jnelson@usoe.k12.ut.edu, have found that dietary changes and moderate antioxidant supplementation differentially affe1
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Issue 97
UAUY and co-workers, Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, have reviewed (29 references) studies of the effects of fatty acid supplementation on the neurodevelopment of full-term infants.
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Issue 97
UPRITCHARD and colleagues, Unilever Health Institute, Unilever Research and Development Vlaardingen, Vlaardingen, Netherlands, jane.upritchard@unilever.com, have found that a spread supplemented with moderate doses of v1
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Issue 96
DAVIS and KRIS-ETHERTON, Department of Nutritional Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA, pmk3@psu,edu, have reviewed (61 references) the current knowledge of optimal 1
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Issue 93
HAAG, Department of Physiology, University of Pretoria, PO Box 2034, Pretoria 0001, South Africa, mhaag@medic.up.ac.za, has reviewed (99 references) essential fatty acids and the brain.
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Issue 93
HIBBELN and co-workers, Laboratory of Membrane Biochemistry and Biophysics, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health, Rochville, Maryland 20852, USA,. have investigated the influences of smoking, gender, and die1
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Issue 93
SORENSON and co-workers, Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, USA, have investigated the impact of 'Mad Cow Disease' publicity on meat and total vitamin A consumption in Geneva.
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Issue 92
BECHOUA and colleagues, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U352, Laboratoire de Biochimie et Pharmacologie, INSA-Lyon, France, have researched the influence of low amounts of marine oil on some aspects of immune function in elder1
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Issue 92
OH and colleagues, Department of Head Neck/Thoracic Medical Oncology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA, ywoh@mdanderson.edu, have found that folk yoghurt kills Helicobacter pylori.
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Issue 88
CHEN and co-workers, Department of Medi, Tulane Universiy School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA, assess serum antioxidant vitamins and blood pressure in the United States population.
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Issue 88
DIETRICH and colleagues, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley 94720-7360, USA, mdietrich@uclink.berkeley.edu, found that smoking and exposure to environmental smoke decrease some plasma antioxidants and increase gamma-tocopherol.
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Issue 88
ALAN R. GABY introduces the ‘Myers’ cocktail’, an intravenous nutrient therapy. Building on the work of the late John Myers MD, an intravenous vitamin and mineral formula has been used for the treatment of a wide range of clinical con1
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Issue 87
O’BYRNE and others, Center for Human Nutrition and the Division of Clinical Biochemistry and Human Metabolism, Department of Pathology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas USA, compared the antioxidant effects of Concord grape1