Uganda: Climate Change Can Be Managed
UGANDANS have been urged to take advantage of the current rise in global food prices to grow food which will supplement their salary as well as other income.
2008-11-12 02:43:14How Much Protein Does the Body Need
There are numerous sources of protein available today. Protein can be absorbed through food, beverages and numerous supplements. Anyone who has gone to a health...
2008-11-08 02:18:32Kenya: UN, Private Sector Move to Save Children
The World Food Programme will soon start using an innovative micronutrients supplement to support the diet of people facing food shortages in Kenya.
2008-10-30 07:09:31Don't forget multivitamins after weight loss surgery
INT29International/Health/ScienceDon't forget multivitamins after weight loss surgeryLondon, Oct 9 IANS Latest research suggests that you should not forget to take your multivitamins after gastric bypass surgery for obesity.The case of a woman who developed a vitamin deficiency disease because she did not take multivitamins after weight-loss surgery was taken up for study by Rachel Batterham and Alberic Fiennes, of University College London.The 27-year-old woman attended hospital with a three-week history of dizziness, low-appetite, and vomiting, having had uncomplicated gastric bypass surgery two months earlier at University College Hospital UCH London.Upon discharge after her weight-loss surgery, she was prescribed the standard treatments of multivitamins and lansoprazole - a drug which prevents the stomach producing acid, according to a release of UCH. The report was published in this week's edition of The Lancet.Upon examination, she had rapid heartbeat and dehydration, and was provisionally diagnosed with gastric outflow obstruction; but an endoscopy revealed nothing of note. Since the surgery the woman had lost nearly 20 kg, and blood tests gave results consistent with dehydration. She was given intravenous fluids, including glucose, and also drank high-sugar energy drinks. The next day, she felt light headed and collapsed in the shower, and had extremely low blood pressure. Further tests revealed abnormal eye movements, hyper-reflexia in her arms, weakness of the thighs, and reduced touch sensation - all of which led to the diagnosis of thiamine vitamin B1 deficiency. Intravenous administration of thiamine began, and the patient made a full recovery. She admitted that she had not been taking her multivitamins. Following gastric bypass surgery, vitamin supplements are necessary to make up the shortage of vitamins entering the body through food intake. Total body thiamine stores last 18-60 days, and deficiency can cause wet beriberi cardiovascular problems, dry beriberi nervous system problems or Wernicke's encephalopathy an acute neurological disorder characterised by eye movement problems. The woman had symptoms of all these three conditions. --Indo-Asian News ServiceSt/jg350 Words09101059
2008-10-09 01:00:00Vitamin C, Chemotherapy: Bad Combo - WebMD
Telegraph.co.ukVitamin C, Chemotherapy: Bad ComboWebMD - 2 hours agoBy Kathleen Doheny Oct. 1, 2008 -- Vitamin C supplements and chemotherapy aren't a good combination, says a team of New York researchers.Vitamin C Megadoses Hamper Cancer Treatments in Mice Washington PostVitamin C could reduce efficacy of some chemotherapy drugs Food ConsumerReuters - BBC News - Natural News.com - MedPage Todayall 77 news articles
2008-10-01 15:21:45Glucosamine, chondroitin sulfate help knees, but doctors demand more - Food Consumer
dBTechnoGlucosamine, chondroitin sulfate help knees, but doctors demand moreFood Consumer - 56 minutes agoBy Jimmy Downs Wednesday October 1, 2008 foodconsumer.org -- Researchers at the University of Utah said dietary supplements glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate do not significantly help slow the rate of cartilage loss in the knees of osteoarthritis Popular Supplements Don't Work Against Arthritis: Study U.S. News & World ReportKnee Arthritis: Supplements May Not Help WebMDfindingDulcinea - MedHeadlines - Reuters - USA Todayall 83 news articles
2008-10-01 15:28:45Glanbia bulks up with Optimum
Ireland's Glanbia, the food production group, is bulking up – literally – with the acquisition of Optimum Nutrition, a US manufacturer of fitness supplements
2008-08-25 14:16:50Commercial rice bran products contain "inappropriate" levels of arsenic
London, August 23 ANI: A new study has suggested that commercial rice bran products contain "inappropriate" levels of the poisonous chemical arsenic. Rice bran is the shavings left over after brown rice is polished to produce white rice grains.According to a report in New Scientist, Andrew Meharg at the University of Aberdeen, UK, and colleagues made the findings. The research team found that the levels of arsenic in rice bran products available on the Internet and used in food-aid programmes funded by the US government would be illegal in China - the only country in the world to have standards for how much arsenic is permissible in food.Arsenic is a natural carcinogen, present in drinking water around the world including in Australia, the US and many developing countries.In the new study, Meharg and colleagues purchased brown rice from China and Bangladesh and polished part of it in the same way that it would be to produce commercial white rice. They found that 1 kilogram of brown rice contained on average 0.76 mg of arsenic in its toxic inorganic form. The rice also contained some non-toxic, organic arsenic. The polished white rice grains contained 0.56 mg inorganic arsenic per kg, whereas the rice bran contained 3.3 mg per kg on average.Meharg and his colleagues purchased nine commercial rice-bran products online, including rice-bran solubles from a company that participates in food-aid programmes, and analysed their arsenic content. The products contained between 0.48 mg/kg and 1.16 mg/kg of inorganic arsenic. "The arsenic concentrations reported are worrisome, but the risk assessment is complex," said Philippe Grandjean, professor of environmental health at Harvard University's School of Public Health.Indeed, "safe" standards for arsenic intake are also controversial. The risk of skin, lung, bladder and kidney cancer increases proportionally with arsenic intake, which has lead toxicologists to the conclusion that there is no "safe" limit. But risks must be weighed against the benefits gained from drinking water and eating certain foods that contain the poison.The worrisome fact is that in recent years, a number of rice-bran products have come onto US and European markets, mainly targeted at health-food consumers. Variants of this food product have been distributed as food aid to malnourished children in Malawi, Guatemala, Nicaragua and El Salvador. There are plans to further expand the aid programmes in Latin America, India and the Caribbean."Rice-bran solubles are not the only way of getting nutrients to malnourished children," said Meharg. "If aid agencies want to go down the bran solubles route, why not wheat, oat or barely bran solubles. All these crops have ten times less total arsenic than rice and are just as nutrient rich," he explained.According to Grandjean, one would expect dietary supplements to be virtually free of unwanted substances like arsenic, especially when aimed at children, who are particularly vulnerable to arsenic. ANI
2008-08-23 02:00:00HC food poser for Union govt
Cuttack, Aug. 10: Orissa High Court has sought the Union government's stand on the decision to feed "pro-biotic" food supplement to infants in tribal-dominated areas for research purposes.
2008-08-11 08:25:32Now, a 'magical' pill that lets dieters eat what they like
London, Aug 7 ANI: Starving yourself in a bid to fight that extra flab Well, you can now forget the painful exertion, for a group of researchers have invented a pill that allows dieters to return to normal eating without putting on weight.The inventors also claim that the pill, a dietary supplement called alpha-lipoic acid and widely sold in health food shops, also slows ageing, which is a known effect of low-calorie diets.However, the finding has triggered a dispute between two of the scientists who carried out the research, conducted in rats, over whether it can be applied to humans. Malcolm Goyns, director of Immorgene Concepts, a scientific research company in Stockton-on-Tees, who led the research, said he was sufficiently convinced to follow the approach himself.Evidence from the tropical Okinawan islands in Japan's extreme southwest, which has the highest proportion of centenarians in the world, demonstrated the life-prolonging effects of calorie restriction, he said.Their traditional diet is high in vegetables and fish and low in fat, but they also have a cultural habit known as hara hachi bu - or "eat until you are 80 per cent full". This is based on the notion that it takes the stomach's stretch receptors 20 minutes to tell the brain how full it really is, preventing overeating - and Okinawans are among the leanest and fittest people in Japan as a result."While calorie restriction diets are followed as a matter of course in communities like Okinawa, the diet can be difficult to follow for most people. Our discovery indicates that by following a calorie restriction diet for six months and then taking alpha-lipoic acid while eating normally, the same life extension effects will be experienced," the Independent quoted Dr Goyns, as saying.He added: "Simply adding the supplement to the diet has no effect. It seems that alpha-lipoic acid fools the body into behaving as if it was still on whatever diet it was following before the supplement was added. We found there was an anti-obesity effect as well. "Although weight does rise when you come off the restricted diet, if you take alpha-lipoic acid, even though you are eating normally again you still have a reduced weight."The study, published in Mechanisms of Ageing and Development, was carried out by Dr Goyns with colleagues from the University of Liverpool. The researchers investigated the effect of alpha-lipoic acid when given to rats on normal and low calorie diets.Experiments have shown that curbing the amount of food rats eat can extend their lives by 25 to 40 per cent. However, anti-ageing benefits are lost when the rats return to a normal diet. In the study, researchers found the benefits of the low calorie diet were extended by giving the rats the supplement when they returned to normal eating. Brian Merry of the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Liverpool, who carried out the study, said: "If you put the animals on to a restricted diet they would normally go on to an extended survival trajectory. When they were switched to a normal diet, this compound seemed to lock them into the benefits of their pre-existing diet."It is an unusual and interesting finding and it needs repeating in further research. That was as far as I was prepared to go, but Malcolm Goyns wanted to apply it to humans. I said I didn't agree with his interpretation and we had to wait for further studies." ANI
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