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New approach allows analysis of human and microbial metabolism using a single unit of measure
Chemical oxygen demand (COD) measures the mass of oxygen required to completely oxidize organic carbon by microbiota, a term used
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EB 2015 Preview: Nutrition and Inflammation
By Sheela Sinharoy The EB 2015 program is online! A highlight for me will be the symposium Approaches to Account
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Is Self-Reported Diet Data Good Enough for Nutrition Science?
By Colby Vorland Southwest Airlines is consistently rated as serving good food on their flights, yet they don’t serve food
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A healthy diet can mean a healthier liver
A new study published in The Journal of Nutrition demonstrated associations of higher diet quality scores with favorable hepatic fat
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ASN’s Themed Collection: Biomarkers of Food Intake
All articles are freely available until September 30, 2021 The Editors of the four American Society for Nutrition (ASN) journals
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Moving Beyond BMI – An Evaluation of an Alternative Adiposity Index and Mortality Risk
By Caitlin Dow, Student Blogger Body Mass Index. BMI, for short. Those three words tend to conjure up some intense
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Direct measurement of food insecurity in children and adolescents
Food insecurity is a common stressor for many children around the world, and it contributes to behavioral problems, impaired school
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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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Does weight loss surgery change food preferences?
Difficulties in measuring habitual food intake following gastric bypass surgery has severely undermined efforts to address key questions regarding subsequent
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Does iron supplementation improve exercise performance in the absence of anemia?
Iron deficiency anemia and iron deficiency without anemia are the most common diet-related micronutrient deficiency disorders in the world. These
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