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Even healthy foods can contain trace amounts of elements such as lead, mercury, cadmium, and arsenic. These “heavy metals” are part of the earth’s crust and can enter the food supply naturally through soil and water. Industrial activities—like mining, burning fossil fuels, and the manufacturing of batteries, paints, and fertilizers—can add more of these elements
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Only 47 percent of U.S. adults age 18 and older get the recommended 150 minutes a week of moderate (or 75 minutes of vigorous) aerobic physical activity. Add the recommendations for muscle-strengthening activity and that level falls to 24 percent. One of the key reasons people say they don’t exercise is lack of time. Emerging
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Growing, processing, packaging, transporting, and wasting food has a significant environmental impact, contributing to climate change, water scarcity, biodiversity loss, and pollution. Current diet patterns in much of the world are high in foods that are both unhealthy and environmentally harmful. To continue reading this article or issue you must be a paid subscriber. Sign
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Happy New Year! Are you among the 76 percent who have tried to lose weight at some point in your life? Losing excess body weight is difficult…and keeping it off can be even harder. That’s why, unless you are underweight, it’s important to avoid gaining. To continue reading this article or issue you must be
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Nutrients, Vol. 18, Pages 45: Machine Learning-Driven Precision Nutrition: A Paradigm Evolution in Dietary Assessment and Intervention Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu18010045 Authors: Wenbin Quan Jingbo Zhou Juan Wang Jihong Huang Liping Du The rising global burden of chronic diseases highlights the limitations of traditional dietary guidelines. Precision Nutrition (PN) aims to deliver personalized dietary advice to
Nutrients, Vol. 18, Pages 44: Unqualified Advice and Product Promotions: Analysis of Health and Nutrition Content on Social Media Consumed by Young Adults Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu18010044 Authors: Sophie Evans Kelly Lambert Adrian Dinale Myah Quinn Denelle Cosier Background/Objectives: This study investigated the relationship between time spent on social media and eating behaviours among young Australian
Nutrients, Vol. 18, Pages 43: Application of the China Diet Balance Index (DBI-2022) in a Region with a High-Quality Dietary Pattern and Its Association with Hypertension: A Cross-Sectional Study in the Lingnan Population Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu18010043 Authors: Weihua Dong Jian Wen Xiaona Zhang Weiyi Gong Ping Gan Panpan Huang Jiaqi Li Rongzhen Li Pengkun Song
Nutrients, Vol. 18, Pages 42: Agrimonia pilosa Extract Alleviates CDAHFD-Induced Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis and Fibrosis in Mice Nutrients doi: 10.3390/nu18010042 Authors: Min-Jeong Jo Sun Jin Hwang Myung-Gi Seo Jun-Ho Lee Jae Woo Lee Yoon Hee Kim Yongduk Kim Sang-Joon Park Background: Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) lacks approved pharmacotherapies despite affecting approximately 25% of the global population. Agrimonia
