Amazing Collection of Nutrition

Skin Wrinkling: Can Food Make a Difference?

Martalena br Purba, BSc, MCN, Antigone Kouris-Blazos, PhD, Naiyana Wattanapenpaiboon, PhD, Widjaja Lukito, MD, PhD, Elizabet M Rothenberg, PhD, Bertil C. Steen, MD, PhD, and Mark L. Wahlqvist, MD, FACN

International Health and Development Unit, Faculty of Medicine Nursing and Health Sciences and Asia Pacific Health and Nutrition Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, AUSTRALIA (M.b.P., A.K.-B., N.W., M.L.W.), SEAMEO-TROPMED Regional Center for Community Nutrition, University of Indonesia, Jakarta, INDONESIA (W.L.), Department of Geriatric Medicine, Vasa Hospital, Goteborg University, SWEDEN (E.M.R., B.C.S.) [mark.wahlqvist@med.monash.edu.au]

Objectives: This study addressed whether food and nutrient intakes were correlated with skin wrinkling in a sun-exposed site. Continue reading →

Effect of Alcohol on Postprandial Lipemia with and without Preprandial Exercise

Paolo M. Suter, MD, MS, FACN, Margreta Gerritsen-Zehnder, MD, Erik Häsler, MD, Magdalen Gürtler, MD, Wilhelm Vetter, MD, and Edgar Hänseler, PhD

Medical Policlinic, Department of Internal Medicine(P.M.S., M.G.-Z., E.H., M.G., W.V.) and the Institute of Clinical Chemistry(E.H.), University Hospital, Zürich, SWITZERLAND [polpms@usz.unizh.ch]

Objective: Different factors such as exercise habits and alcohol consumption may modulate postprandial lipid metabolism. What are the effects of alcohol on postprandial metabolism in untrained and trained individuals? Continue reading →

Types of Dietary Fat and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease:A Critical Review

Frank B. Hu, MD, PhD, JoAnn E. Manson, MD, DrPh, and Walter C. Willett, MD, DrPh

Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts [Frank.hu@channing.harvard.edu]

During the past several decades, reduction in fat intake has been the main focus of national dietary recommendations to decrease risk of coronary heart disease (CHD). Several lines of evidence, however, have indicated that types of fat have a more important role in determining risk of CHD than total amount of fat in the diet. Continue reading →