Category Archives: Nutrition
Symposia: Soap, health and the environment; and bugs, babies and breastmilk
The potential downsides of fragrances in personal care products, and microbes, milk and the infant gut, and will be the topics of two student-run symposia at UC Davis in September. Both events, including nationally-recognized experts, are the outcomes of year-long …
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Study reinforces obesity/high-fat diet/heart disease link
A team of UC Davis biomedical engineers, led by Assistant Professor Anthony Passerini, has established a link between inflammation of the arterial lining, waist size, and triglyceride levels in the blood after eating a high-fat, fast food meal. The study …
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NYT: Breast milk, bacteria and babies
Much of human breast milk is indigestible to babies and goes instead to feed bacteria in their tiny guts, writes New York Times science correspondent Nicholas Wade in today’s Science Times. In what science blogger Charlie Petit calls a “nifty” …
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GM goats for Brazil
Brazilian and UC Davis scientists James Murray and Elizabeth Maga are teaming up to develop a herd of genetically modified dairy goats, whose milk could protect against diarrhea, a major killer of the children around the world. The goats will …
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