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Nutrition

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Health+Nutrition

One size doesn't fit all: An AI approach to creating healthy personalized diets

Published Nov 17, 2022

A Johns Hopkins systems engineer's new method will allow patients to determine an achievable diet to improve their health and better manage negative symptoms

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Public Health

Food insecurity amid the COVID-19 pandemic

Published July 8, 2022

The pandemic has exacerbated food insecurity concerns while also interrupting critical data gathering efforts to assess food insecurity in vulnerable populations

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Pregnancy

Higher selenium and manganese levels during pregnancy may protect babies from future high blood pressure

Published June 29, 2021

Manganese may also protect against the hypertensive effect of the heavy metal cadmium

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Many U.S. consumers eating less meat

Published Sept 12, 2018

Survey respondents cite health concerns, cost as reasons for reducing meat consumption

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No more cheat days

Published Fall 2018

Clinical trials of nutrition and diets are often complicated by the simple fact that study participants might not adhere to the rules of the study. What if there were a way to change that? / Johns Hopkins Magazine

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Nutrition

Cheating on your diet? This blood test can tell

Published Sept 4, 2018

Blood metabolites differed strongly between treatment and control groups in clinical trial of popular DASH diet

Nutrition and mental health

Processed meats linked with manic episodes

Published July 24, 2018

In analysis of people with and without psychiatric disorders, nitrates found in jerky, hot dogs, salami, and other meats found to contribute to mania

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Behavioral science

Overeating after dark

Published Jan 16, 2018

Chances of overeating increase in evening as hunger hormone levels rise, study suggests

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Nutrition

Lung benefits seen from apples, tomatoes

Published Dec 21, 2017

Study finds decline in lung function among ex-smokers slower for those who ate tomatoes or fruit each day for a decade

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Junk food science

Published Oct 26, 2017

Food has the power to sneak in and grab our attention—especially junk food, study finds