Sahlgrenska.gu.se - A thesis from the University of Gothenburg (Sweden) is the first in Scandinavia to study the occurrence of low bone mineral density in children and teenagers with inflammatory bowel disease. Half of the patients in the study showed signs of low bone mineral density. The results emphasize the importance of treating the underlying [...]

UIUC.edu - Has your toddler eaten fish today? A University of Illinois food science professor has two important reasons for including seafood in your young child’s diet, reasons that have motivated her work in helping to develop a tasty, nutritious salmon baby food for toddlers.
“First, babies need a lot of the omega-3 fatty acids found [...]

Berkeley.edu - Children who were exposed to common, organophosphate pesticides while still in their mother’s womb were more likely to develop attention-deficit disorders years later, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley. The study raises the public health issue of whether organic produce might be a better choice for [...]

JHSPH.edu - Overweight American children and adolescents have become fatter over the last decade, according to researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and National Institute on Aging (NIA).  They examined adiposity shifts across socio-demographic groups over time and found U.S. children and adolescents had significantly increased adiposity measures such as body [...]

UMich.edu - In one of the first human studies of its kind, researchers have found that urinary concentrations of the controversial chemical Bisphenol A, or BPA, may be related to decreased sperm quality and sperm concentration.
However, the researchers are quick to point out that these results are preliminary and more study is needed. Several studies [...]

ABSMB.org - Chronic dietary excess of linoleic acid (omega-6 fatty acid), coupled with a deficiency in alpha-linoleic acid (omega-3 fatty acid), can increase obesity down the generations.  Researchers writing in the Journal of Lipid Research exposed several generations of male and female adult and young mice to a “Western-like” diet of this type, and then [...]