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Soy and wheat proteins helpful for building aging muscles, but not as potent as animal protein

07/07/2020

The Physiological Society The number of vegans in the UK has quadrupled since 2006, meaning that there are around 600,000 vegans in Great Britain. While we know plant-based diets are beneficial for the environment, we don't actually know how healthy these diets are for keeping muscles...

Maternal choline and respiratory coronavirus effects on fetal brain development

12/06/2020

Freedman, R., Hunter, Sharon.K., Law, Amanda.K., Introduction The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) anticipate that maternal COVID-19 infection will affect fetal development like other respiratory coronaviruses (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2020). COVID-19 is not usually...

Induction of sustained unresponsiveness after egg oral immunotherapy compared to baked egg therapy in egg-allergic children

19/05/2020

Authors: Kim EH, Perry TT, Wood RA, Leung DY, et al. Background While desensitization and sustained unresponsiveness (SU) have been shown with egg oral immunotherapy (OIT), the benefits of baked egg (BE) therapy for egg allergy have not been well studied. Objective To evaluate the safety...

Induction of sustained unresponsiveness after egg oral immunotherapy compared to baked egg therapy in egg-allergic children

19/05/2020

Kim EH, Perry TT, Wood RA, Leung DY, et al. Background While desensitization and sustained unresponsiveness (SU) have been shown with egg oral immunotherapy (OIT), the benefits of baked egg (BE) therapy for egg allergy have not been well studied. Objective To evaluate the safety and...

Extra choline may help pregnant women decrease negative effects of COVID-19 on their newborns

01/06/2020

Milzer, J. Pregnant women who take extra choline supplements may mitigate the negative impact that viral respiratory infections, including COVID-19, can have on their babies, according to a new study from researchers in the Departments of Psychiatry and Obstetrics and Gynecology at the...

Association of dietary vitamin K and risk of coronary heart disease in middle-age adults: the Hordaland Health Study Cohort

21/05/2020

Haugsgjerd, T.R., Egeland, G.M., Nygard, O.T., et al. Introduction Vitamin K is a fat-soluble vitamin including vitamin K1 (K1; phylloquinone) from green leafy vegetables and vegetable oils as the main dietary sources, and vitamin K2 (K2; menaquinones) from dairy products, meat and egg...

Vitamin-D and COVID-19: do deficient risk a poorer outcome

20/05/2020

Fiona Mitchell Despite difficulties in comparing data across nations, mortality from COVID-19 is clearly higher in some countries than in others. Many factors could have a role in this disparity, including differences in proportion of elderly people in a population, general health...

Is a vitamin D fortification strategy needed?

18/05/2020

J. L. Buttriss S. A. Lanham‐New Almost one in five adults aged 19–65 years in the UK has a low serum vitamin D concentration (below 25 nmol/l) according to the National Diet and Nutrition Survey (NDNS) (Roberts et al. 2018), which puts them at increased risk of the manifestations of...

Association between regional selenium status and reported outcome of COVID-19 cases in China

28/04/2020

Zhan J, Taylor E.W, Bennett K. et al. Potentially relevant to the recent appearance of COVID-19 in China is the fact that there is a belt of selenium deficiency running from northeast to southwest in the country and, indeed, China has populations that have both the lowest and the highest...

Vitamin D and SARS-CoV-2 virus/COVID-19 disease

14/05/2020

Lanham-New S, Webb A, Cashman K. et al. Background and aim The spread of novel SARS-CoV-2 virus, and the disease COVID-19 that is caused by SARS-CoV-2, continues apace. Saving lives and slowing the worldwide pandemic remain of utmost importance to everyone: the public, healthcare...