Lack of adequate food is ongoing health risk to US children
WASHINGTON, DC – For the first time, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is recommending that pediatricians screen all children for food insecurity. In a new policy statement identifying the...
View ArticleMillions of women severely undernourished in low- and middle-income countries
More than 18 million women in low- and middle-income countries around the world are severely undernourished, according to the first global estimate published online today in JAMA. These women tend to...
View Article5 Ways You Can Help the Hungry on Thanksgiving
For many families in the U.S., Thanksgiving means striking up the stove, cooking a turkey for hours on end, and setting the table for a day’s worth of plentiful feasting. But for one in seven...
View ArticleHow tasty forest foods can help solve the global hunger crisis
Dr Bhaskar Vira (Department of Geography, University of Cambridge) is co-editor of the open access book Forests and Food: Addressing Hunger and Nutrition Across Sustainable Landscapes, which will be...
View ArticleIn Syria, severe malnutrition confirmed, 32 deaths reported in month: UN
The U.N. children’s fund UNICEF on Friday confirmed cases of severe malnutrition among children in the besieged Syrian town of Madaya, where local relief workers reported 32 deaths of starvation in...
View ArticleThe eNutrition Academy: Supporting Malnutrition Education Globally
doi: 10.3945/an.115.010728 Adv Nutr January 2016 Adv Nutr vol. 7: 190-198, 2016 The eNutrition Academy: Supporting a New Generation of Nutritional Scientists around the World 1,2 Catherine Geissler3,...
View ArticleNutrition supplement HMB is associated with lower death rate in malnourished...
ABBOTT PARK, Ill. Jan. 18, 2016 -Results from a new clinical trial show that a specialized oral nutrition supplement was associated with a 50 percent lower death rate in older malnourished patients...
View ArticleImproving food intake in persons living with dementia
Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2016 Jan 15. doi: 10.1111/nyas.12997. [Epub ahead of print] Improving food intake in persons living with dementia. Keller HH1. Author information 1Schlegel-University of Waterloo...
View ArticleNearly half of American children living near poverty line: Columbia U study
March 2, 2016 (NEW YORK CITY) — Nearly half of children in the United States live dangerously close to the poverty line, according to new research from the National Center for Children in Poverty...
View ArticleMalnutrition is becoming a first world problem
SYDNEY, MONDAY 18 JULY, 2016: Australian researchers have discovered that a bad diet has consequences on your immune system even before you notice an increase in body weight. Scientists from the...
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