Nancy Turner, PhD
Nancy Turner is a Professor of Nutrition at Michigan State University. Her research focus is on the role of diet on colon cancer and inflammatory bowel disease. She is the author of many papers on this topic, as well as the co-editor of a book, and co-author of a textbook.Tomato or lycopene intake has modest impact on early gene expression in the TRAMP model of prostate cancer
Human prostate cancer incidence is lower in populations with higher lycopene or tomato intakes, and consumption of lycopene or tomatoes
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Quinones with varying sidechain lengths are precursors to tissue menaquinone-4 in mice
Vitamin K is a term used to represent multiple compounds derived from plants (phylloquinone, PK) and bacteria (menaquinones, MKn). Menaquinone-4
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Iron deficiency during pregnancy can be treated with an oral ferritin-core analog
Iron deficiency remains a global problem that is even more problematic during pregnancy, as it contributes to many health challenges
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Diet diversity unveils relationships between fiber intake and gut microbiota composition
Diet is known to influence composition of the gut microbiota, however, our understanding of the specific changes in microbial composition
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Ascorbic acid enhances iron bioavailability from fortified infant cereals containing whole grain and pulses
Combatting iron deficiency anemia during early childhood typically involves using fortified cereal-based complementary foods. Because of the nutrients (vitamins, minerals,
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Iron fortification of salt may benefit those in regions with high rates of anemia
Low compliance among the people of India has caused iron supplementation approaches there to not be effective in reducing anemia.
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Commercial devices provide reasonable estimates of energy expenditure but not energy storage
Mathematical models have been formulated that allow energy intake (EI) to be estimated by solving the equation energy storage (ES)
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Understanding how obesity contributes to diseases requires an appreciation of how fat mass and lean mass correlate with metabolic biomarkers
Many diseases are associated with obesity, and multiple studies have documented associations between body mass index (BMI), a surrogate measure
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Free amino acids are more readily available than intact protein but do not induce a differential effect on muscle protein synthesis rates
Muscle protein synthesis is dependent upon an adequate supply of all proteinogenic amino acids, which are normally supplied by food
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