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UF/IFAS Researchers: Robots May Run Future Farms
University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences
University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences professors Senthold Asseng and Frank Asche co-wrote an article published in the journal Science Robotics in which they say: "the farmers of the future are likely to be data scientists, programmers and robot wranglers."
Automated System Would Deliver Chemicals to Help Ward off Citrus Greening
University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences
Imagine using a robotic arm to grip and puncture the trunk of a citrus tree to deliver chemicals into the vascular parts of the plant, reducing its susceptibility to the citrus greening disease.
Ora-curcumin formulation on its way to health product market
South Dakota State University
A unique formulation will allow the development of nutraceutical products by increasing the bioavailability of curcumin, a powerful anti-inflammatory, through the start-up company Turmeric Ultra Inc.
Protein Released From Fat Following Exercise Improves Glucose Tolerance, and Health
Joslin Diabetes Center
BOSTON - (February 11, 2019) - It's well-known that exercise improves health, but understanding how it makes you healthier on a molecular level is the question researchers at Joslin Diabetes Center are answering. After performing experiments in both humans and mice, the researchers found that exercise training causes dramatic changes to fat.
Meet Doctor/Chef Robert Graham, Co-Founder of FRESH Medicine and Meatless Monday Ambassador at the Healthy Food Expo New York, part of the International Restaurant & Foodservice Show of New York
Monday Campaigns
Chef Robert E. Graham will discuss how our food system and food trends have misshapen the way we eat and how to use food as medicine. What you'll learn from his session: How to leverage concepts like Meatless Monday to encourage consumers to increase their fruit and vegetable intake and why Monday is the best day for behavior change.
UF/IFAS Scientist to Work with Team Developing New Greening-Tolerant Citrus
University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences
Nian Wang, a professor of microbiology and cell science with the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, will help an investigation in which researchers take the best genes from one plant and transfer them into another. With that combination, Wang and the research team believe they'll move closer to growers' goal of citrus that copes better with greening.
WVU researchers assess how a vegetarian diet can help prevent or control diabetes
West Virginia University
As West Virginia University works toward becoming the world's first Blue Zones Certified university, a graduate-student researcher in the WVU School of Public Health is exploring how one of the Blue Zone Project's tenets--eating an abundance of vegetables--can make individuals with diabetes, and those at-risk of developing the condition, healthier.
UF/IFAS Expert: Eat Fresh Food for a Healthy Heart
University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences
As we enter February, which is American Heart Month, a University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences nutrition expert gives several suggestions to help you keep your heart pumping blood as it should.
Why Do We Need to Keep Breeding New Crop Varieties?
American Society of Agronomy (ASA), Crop Science Society of America (CSSA), Soil Science Society of America (SSSA)
Crop breeders continue to improve familiar crops. The February 7th Sustainable, Secure Food blog describes crop breeders' progress towards the future of barley, wheat, and potato varieties.
How a Food Expo Can Help Take Your Food Start-Up to the Next Level
Institute of Food Technologists (IFT)
Entrepreneurship is driving much of the most exciting innovation happening in the science of food today. To help support this growing community, IFT--through our IFTNEXT initiative--launched a new, high profile promotional venue at our 2017 Annual Event and Food Expo called the IFTNEXT Start-Up Alley. It's a unique opportunity for food start-ups to showcase their innovative technologies, products, and/or services at one of the world's largest annual food science events.
New 'Marathon' Mandarin Gives Growers Advantages
University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences
Commercial citrus growers will soon see a new seedless mandarin variety that stays on the tree longer, two traits farmers seek, say University of Florida scientists.
Registration Now Open for IFT19: Feed Your Future
Institute of Food Technologists (IFT)
Registration is now open for IFT19: Feed Your Future in New Orleans, LA from June 2-5, 2019 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. Hosted by the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), IFT19 will bring together science of food professionals from around the globe to inspire and transform collective knowledge into innovative solutions that help advance the planet's food safety, nutrition, and sustainability.
Big fat lies about obesity: ASU professor says health risks of obesity have been exaggerated
Arizona State University (ASU)
Calorie Restriction Prevents Asthma Symptoms Linked to Inflammation In Mice
Johns Hopkins Medicine
Experimenting with mice, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers report that a low-calorie diet prevented asthma symptoms regardless of the diet's fat and sugar content. The researchers also say they found that obesity resulting from a high-calorie diet led to asthma symptoms in the animals by causing lung inflammation, and a drug that blocks inflammation eased those symptoms.
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in children
LifeBridge Health
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, excess buildup of fat in the liver (specifically in people who don't regularly drink or abuse alcohol), doesn't only affect adults. It happens to be the leading cause of chronic liver disease in children.
What you eat could impact your brain and memory
Iowa State University
High levels could decrease a person's likelihood of developing Alzheimer's disease. For individuals who have higher levels of the hormone, their chance of having mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer's disease decreased by 65 percent.
Computer program aids food safety experts with pathogen testing
Cornell University
Cornell University scientists have developed a computer program, Environmental Monitoring With an Agent-Based Model of Listeria (EnABLe), to simulate the most likely locations in a processing facility where the deadly food-borne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes might be found. Food safety managers may then test those areas for the bacteria's presence, adding an important tool to prevent food contamination and human exposure to the pathogen through tainted food.
Research shows intermittent fasting provides health benefits
Texas State University
time-restricted feeding (TRF) and has been shown to provide potential benefits cardiometabolic health including improvements in body composition, reduces inflammation and improvements in blood lipids.
Study Shows Low-Sugar Diet Effective in Boys with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
University of California San Diego Health
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine found that a diet low in free sugars (those added to foods and beverages and occurring naturally in fruit juices) resulted in significant improvement in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) in adolescent boys.
Purple Reigns
Washington University in St. Louis
Purple rice is a whole grain with high levels of antioxidants -- and high levels of genetic diversity, thanks to traditional farming practices, according to new research from Washington University in St. Louis.
Can Drinking Oolong Tea Help Prevent Breast Cancer?
Saint Louis University Medical Center
SLU scientists and their colleagues have found that oolong tea can damage breast cancer cells and inhibit the growth and progression of tumors in the lab, potentially offering a non-toxic strategy to prevent breast cancer.
UNLV Startup Uses Genes to Create Personalized Diets
University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV)
Food Genes and Me is a site and software that lets users figure out health risks and how to solve them within minutes.
UTHealth drives forward programs to stop childhood obesity
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Two grants totaling nearly $3.7 million will support the efforts of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) to combat obesity and help Texas children achieve healthy lifestyles through the mission of the Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living.
Metabolite produced by gut microbiota from pomegranates reduces inflammatory bowel disease
University of Louisville
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Scientists at the University of Louisville have shown that a microbial metabolite, Urolithin A, derived from a compound found in berries and pomegranates, can reduce and protect against inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Millions of people worldwide suffer from IBD in the form of either ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease, and few effective long-term treatments are available.
Stuck on the couch? Good exercise habits derailed by common food additive
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Inorganic phosphate, a food additive and preservative used in up to 70 percent of food in the American diet, may be contributing to couch potato behavior.
Dietetics major helps improve college wellness programming
South Dakota State University
Analysis of students' insight and suggestions regarding how to encourage their peers to develop healthy lifestyle, including stress management, is helping improve college wellness programming.
We Don't Diet: We Lose Weight!
Health People
The South Bronx is notorious for its high obesity and diabetes rates---the highest in New York State. But a group of community health educators, is fighting this trend with new success. Peer leaders are helping other diabetics in the South Bronx neighborhood lose weight and better manage their disease.
Foods for Healthy Aging
LifeBridge Health
Eating healthy, less of a priority for many in their youthful years, becomes all the more necessary as the risk for heart disease, high blood pressure, Alzheimer's and other age-related conditions increases as you get older.
Keys to Intra-Workout Nutrition
LifeBridge Health
Intra-workout nutrition doesn't only apply to what you're putting into your body while you are exercising. Rather, it encompasses what you eat or drink before, during and after a workout.
Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Pattern Linked to Higher Kidney Disease Risk
American Society of Nephrology (ASN)
* In a study of African-American men and women with normal kidney function, a pattern of higher collective consumption of soda, sweetened fruit drinks, and water was associated with a higher risk of developing kidney disease.
Whole30-style diets: The good, the bad and the healthy
Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
Restrictive, whole-foods diets like Whole30 are popular choices for those looking to reset their food choices, especially as New Year's resolutions. It's important, though, to recognize that highly restrictive diets can have more risks than benefits - and healthy compromises do exist.
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center Co-Hosts Gene Editing Symposium
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, in partnership with other local St. Louis business and organizations, hosted a gene editing symposium to explore how cutting-edge gene editing technology will improve human health, grow the food we need with fewer resources, manage environmental changes titled, "Gene Editing: Innovation and Impact in Missouri."
Experienced Agricultural Engineer Joins UF Indian River Region Scientists to Restore Grapefruit Industry
University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences
Sandra Guzman will lead the center's irrigation and hydrology program.
How to Avoid Food Allergy Traps at Holiday Gatherings
Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
Eating is a cultural part of our holiday traditions but, for more and more Americans, a simple holiday gathering could lead to a medical emergency with a bite of the wrong food.
Researchers Zero in on Potential Therapeutic Target for Diabetes, Associated Diseases
Texas A&M AgriLife
A recent study led by researchers in Texas A&M University's department of nutrition and food science shows how a novel regulatory mechanism serves as an important biomarker for the development of diabetes, as well as a potential therapeutic target for its prevention.
Malnutrition Common in Children with Crohn's Disease Increases Risk For Post-Operative Complications
Johns Hopkins Medicine
Results of a medical records study of children with Crohn's disease by Johns Hopkins researchers have added substantial evidence for a strong and direct link between malnutrition and increased risk of surgical complications and poor outcomes.
New RNA sequencing strategy provides insight into microbiomes
University of Chicago Medical Center
In a new study published in Nature Communications, a team of scientists from UChicago demonstrated the application of tRNA sequencing to gut microbiome samples from mice that were fed either a low-fat or high-fat diet.
UTHealth experts spill beans on festive party food preferences
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
With the holiday party season in full swing, deciding what to wear can be the biggest headache. But paying attention to what you eat at such occasions might reveal it's your diet more in need of a makeover. The good news is experts at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) can help.
Large Restaurant Portions a Global Problem, Study Finds
Tufts University
A multi-country study finds that large portion sizes in fast food and full service restaurants is not a problem unique to the U.S. The researchers found that 94 percent of full service meals and 72 percent of fast food meals studied in five countries contained 600 calories or more.
Revolutionary testing for food-supply safety and illicit drug use
Oregon State University, College of Engineering
Oregon State University College of Engineering researchers are developing novel lab-on-a-chip biosensors for testing food quality and safety as well as illicit drug use.
Super Healthy Kefir Made From Sonicated Milk
South Ural State University
A research team at South Ural State University (SUSU) (Chelyabinsk, Russia), in cooperation with their colleagues from the Russian State Agrarian University and the National Institute of Technology Warangal (India), have significantly enhanced the health properties of fermented milk products (kefir in particular) thanks to ultrasonic treatment.
Anti-GMO sentiment has repercussions for developing world
Iowa State University
Anti-GMO sentiment may be holding back the progress of farmers in some African countries, but an Iowa State University agronomist hopes a new study upholding the safety of Bt corn may help policymakers in Africa implement the technology to fight an emergent pest. The review included a risk assessment that found delaying the adoption of genetically modified crops such as Bt corn in the developing world presents risks to both humans and the environment.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder may offer protection from obesity
Texas State University
A new study led by Amitai Abramovitch, assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at Texas State University, shows that individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) are significantly less likely to become overweight or obese.
Summer undergraduate researcher increases knowledge, confidence
South Dakota State University
"You can learn a lot here in a small amount of time," said Oglala Lakota college student Dillon Nelson of his summer research experience at South Dakota State. That knowledge was both scientific and personal.
ACI Welcomes New FDA Rulemaking for Food Handler Antiseptic Products
American Cleaning Institute
The American Cleaning Institute (ACI) welcomed a proposal by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to create a separate regulatory category for antiseptic products used in food handler settings.
Cage-free unit added to Mississippi State poultry department
Mississippi State University
A new poultry research facility at Mississippi State University is addressing the growing consumer and corporate demands for cage-free eggs.
Can rice filter water from ag fields?
American Society of Agronomy (ASA), Crop Science Society of America (CSSA), Soil Science Society of America (SSSA)
While it's an important part of our diets, new research shows that rice plants can be used in a different way, too: to clean runoff from farms before it gets into rivers, lakes, and streams.
BIDMC Research & Health News Digest: November 2018
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
A monthly roundup of research briefs showcasing recent scientific advances led by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center faculty.
Small Changes to Cafeteria Design Can Get Kids to Eat Healthier, New Assessment Tool Finds
University of Notre Dame
New research from the University of Notre Dame suggests ways to approach this problem in elementary school cafeterias, especially for high-risk and underserved student populations.
UF/IFAS Event Combines Latest Citrus Varieties with New Breeding Research
University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences
Not only can growers learn the newest information, they'll find out about approaches to commercializing new citrus varieties.