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18 April 2016 - Food Navigator - Excess sugar consumption ‘similar to cocaine addiction', says study

15 April 2016 - Nutraingredients - Magnesium right on time as role in body rhythms is recognised

14 April 2016 - Questioning Answers - #Breadgate and nutritional psychiatry

The review paper by Paola Bressan & Peter Kramer titled: 'Bread and Other Edible Agents of Mental Disease' has been getting a few people a little hot under the collar recently. With it's own Twitter hashtag #breadgate it looks like the idea that certain foods might have something of a bearing on "human behaviour and mental health" has not been received particularly well.

13 April 2016 - Foodnavigator - Switching from saturated fat to vegetable oil cuts cholesterol but increases heart attack risk: Review

12 April 2016 - Nutraingredients - Mind the fibre gap: The case of the vanishing gut microbiome

Increasing dietary fibre intake may be the best way to regain the microbial biodiversity that has been impaired by the western diet, according to researchers.

6 April 2016 - Nutraingredients - “Exciting results”: Tufts/Harvard meta-analysis supports omega-3s for child brain development

04 April 2016 - Nutraingredients - Increased exposure to aluminium harmful to gut homeostasis, review warns

29 March 2016 - Nutraingredients - UK MP to lobby for folic acid fortification

29 March 2016 - Nutraingredients - EFSA vitamin D intakes are too low and 'missing data': Industry group

24 March 2016 - Nutraingredients - The omega-3 pioneer

22 March 2016 - Nutraingredients - Omega-3 neglected in malnutrition product formulations: Researchers

22 March 2016 - The Conversation - What the world can learn from Mexico’s tax on sugar-sweetened drinks

22 March 2016 - Nutraingredients - Typical vegan diet lacks key nutrients; supplements can help: Study

21 March 2016 - The Conversation - Sugar: it’s not just the calories that are bad for you

18 March 2016 - PRNewswire - New Study Supports Link between Omega-3 Supplementation and Reduction in Depression

16 March 2016 - The Conversation - Why risk of schizophrenia is three times higher in refugees

14 March 2016 - The Conversation - Epigenetics: Can stress really change your genes?

We often talk about our genetic make-up and “how good” or “how healthy” our genes are. We also know “bad genes” can lead to us having a higher chance of developing a particular disease if our parents are carriers. But while scientists can look for those faulty or changed genes, over the last decade we have learned this is not the whole story.

07 March 2016 - U.S. News - Low Prenatal Vitamin D Linked to Later MS in Offspring

Children of mothers with too little vitamin D during their pregnancy may have a higher risk of developing multiple sclerosis when they reach adulthood, a new study suggests.

06 March 2016 - Nutraingredients - Caffeine opinion not measuring effect of 5 Red Bulls and a bottle of vodka: EFSA

Accounting for the lifestyle choice of excessive consumption of energy drinks and alcohol was not the point of EFSA's risk assessment on caffeine, the authority has said at a Brussels stakeholder meeting on the draft yesterday.

02 March 2016 - Nature - Brain food: Clever eating