Cinnamon May Aid Learning Ability You probably go to your kitchen to prepare a snack or a meal, slightly aware, but not thinking really about how the food you eat effects your health. While most in the west still haven’t tried a blend of healthy foods together including Turmeric, Amalaki, Haritaki, Gymnema, Green Tea, Guggul, Cocoa,…
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Elementary Introduction to EFAs
“Now the scientists, brought together by the Cherab Foundation, a major nonprofit group for children with speech disorders, are calling for a large-scale clinical trial to validate these initial findings.The panel of experts who reviewed the study included scientists from the NIH, Johns Hopkins University, Kennedy Krieger Institute, University of Kansas, and Oxford University, England….
Organic Oreos With Organic Water
The original definition of the word organic from the 18th century is: “the condition of being ordered as a living being.” While a blow drier, a fork, and a toenail clipper are not organic, yet, we now have organic Oreos, organic water, and organic Kraft mac and cheese. Manufacturers know that consumers see the word organic…
Study Finds Entertainers Mainly Endorse Junk Food
Bubble Gum Music Music may be food for the soul, but the food and beverages that pop singers endorse these days may be more like food for diabetes, and obesity according to a new study published June 2016 in Pediatrics. This is believed to be the first study to use a rigorous nutritional analysis to evaluate healthfulness…
Metabolomics: You Are What You Eat
“Diet definitely impacts a person’s metabolites. They can see which foods cause what kinds of metabolic changes and how that evolves over time. It will be very informative to see how what you eat determines what you are chemically.” NASA’s Human Research Program released the video “Metabolomics: You Are What You Eat” to highlight its Twins Study…
Good Nutrition=Good Social Development
Study finds good nutrition will enhance cognitive function and promote good social behavior, which is essential to brain development and intelligence. The main finding of a new study from two University of Pennsylvania researchers has found proper nutrition during childhood can positively affect a child’s social behaviors and development. The results are published in the journal Maternal and…
Half of U.S. Kids Don’t Drink Enough Water, Study Says
A quarter said they drank no plain water at all A new study shows that more than half of children and adolescents in the United States are not drinking enough water. —Boys were 76% more likely to be dehydrated than girls, and non-Hispanic blacks were 34% more likely to be dehydrated than non-Hispanic whites. “The…
Eating Clean To Protect The Brain
“So you recommend that pregnant women eat organic produce?” I asked Grandjean, a Danish-born researcher who travels around the world studying delayed effects of chemical exposure on children. “That’s what I advise people who ask me, yes. It’s the best way of preventing exposure to pesticides.” Grandjean estimates that there are about 45 organophosphate pesticides…
Food Changes Gut Bacteria As Quick As A Day
“The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.” ~Thomas Edison WE’RE 90% MICROBIAL AND ONLY 10% HUMAN “Now there is hard evidence linking conditions such as autism and depression to the gut’s microbial residents, known as the microbiome. And neuroscientists are taking…
Nutrition Cognition Research Articles
“Food For Thought” “How food affects IQ “A diet, high in fats, sugars, and processed foods in early childhood is associated with a lower IQ at the age of 8, while a diet packed full of vitamins and nutrients may do the opposite, suggests research just published online in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community…
