Category: Scientific/Technical Items
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Collaborating with Industry to Address Obesity Is a Mistake, Says Kelly Brownell
Yale University Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity’s Kelly Brownell has provided a “Perspective” article for PLoS Medicine’s ongoing series about “Big Food.” Titled “Thinking Forward: The Quicksand of Appeasing the Food Industry,” the July 3, 2012, article contends that public-health efforts to collaborate with the food industry to address obesity are a mistake.…
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New Study Claims BPA Exposure Lasts for Generations
A recent study has reportedly claimed that the first generation of mouse offspring exposed to bisphenol A (BPA) before birth “displayed fewer social interactions as compared with control mice, whereas in later generations… the effect of BPA was to increase these social interactions.” Jennifer Wolstenholme, et al., “Gestational Exposure to Bisphenol A Produces Transgenerational Changes…
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Low-Glycemic, Low-Carb Diets Allegedly Burn More Calories Than Low-Fat Regimes
A recent study analyzing the effects of three weight-loss maintenance diets has purportedly concluded that subjects who adhered to either a low-glycemic or very low-carbohydrate diet burned more calories than those on low-fat diets. Cara Ebbeling, et al., “Effects of Dietary Composition on Energy Expenditure During Weight-Loss Maintenance,” Journal of the American Medical Association, June 2012.…
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PLoS Medicine Continues “Big Food” Series
This week’s issue of PLoS Medicine includes an article in its “Big Food” series titled “Manufacturing Epidemics: The Role of Global Producers in Increased Consumption of Unhealthy Commodities Including Processed Foods, Alcohol, and Tobacco.” According to the authors, “market data on commodity sales from EuroMonitor Passport Global Market Information database 2011 edition” show a “significant…
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British Report Claims Obesity a Burden on Environmental Sustainability
A recent report by researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) has claimed that rising obesity rates “could have the same implications for world food energy demands as an extra half billion people living on earth.” Sarah Walpole, “The weight of nations: an estimation of adult human biomass,” BMC Public Health,…
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Scientists Engineer Cows to Produce Low Lactose, Omega-3 Milk
Two groups of scientists at Inner Mongolia University in Huhhot, China, have reportedly created two genetically modified (GM) calves capable of producing either low-lactose milk or milk high in omega-3 fatty acids. According to media sources, the group involved with low-lactose milk production hopes to create herds of GM cows that would supply a range…
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Sodium Intake Linked to Hypertension Risk in New Study
A recent study has reportedly concluded that a diet high in sodium is associated “with increases in biomarkers of endothelial dysfunction, specifically serum uric acid (SUA) and urine albumin excretion (UAE),” leading to hypertension. John Forman, et al., “Association between Sodium Intake and Change in Uric Acid, Urine Albumin Excretion, and the Risk of Developing…
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PLoS Medicine Kicks Off Series on “Big Food,” Calls for Investigation
The journal PLoS Medicine has published two articles and an editorial in a “major new series” on “Big Food” in this week’s issue, and will publish five additional related articles over the next two weeks. The editorial notes that the articles, focusing on “the role in health of Big Food, which we define as the…