Positive Health Online

Issue 186

ARNAUD and COLLEAGUES,  INSERM, U884, F-38000 Grenoble, France. JArnaud@chu-grenoble.fr studied the effects of fibrates and statins on plasma selenium levels in elderly dyslipidaemic (abnormal amount1

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Issue 183

SIMILA and COLLEAGUES, Department of Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention, National Public Health Institute, Mannerheimintie 166, Helsinki FI-00300, Finland. minna.simila@ktl.fi compiled a GI datab1

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Issue 180

ESTAQUIO and COLLEAGUES, Department of Nutritional Epidemiology, French Institute of Health and Medical Research, Bobigny, France set out to develop a score based on adherence to dietary and physical activity recommendations and estimated its associ1

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Issue 178

HERMSDORFF and COLLEAGUES,  Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Physiology and Toxicology, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain assessed the inflammatory marker retinol-binding protein-4 to assess its possible relationship with dietary in1

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Issue 177

FREISLING and COLLEAGUES,  Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. heinz.freisling@univie.ac at conducted a study to develop a food frequency index (FFI) and to test1

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Issue 173

CHOI and COLLEAGUES,  Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Arthritis Research Centre of Canada, Vancouver General Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. hchoius@bu.edu research1

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Issue 170

BURNETT-HARTMAN and COLLEAGUES, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. anbh@u.washington.edu evaluated, within the Multi-Ethnic Stud1

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Issue 168

MADRUGA and COLLEAGUES,  Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health, University of Sao Paulo, Avenida Dr Arnaldo 715, Sao Paulo-SP, CEP-01246-904, Brazil. andmo@usp.br evaluated plasma concentrations of asco1

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Issue 164

CHIZZOLA and COLLEAGUES,  Institute for Applied Botany and Pharmacognosy, Department of Veterinary Public Health, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria. Remigius.Chizzola@vu-wien.ac.at1

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Issue 163

HARRINGTON, Wayne State University School of Nursing, Detroit, MI, USA reviewed [52 refs] the relationship between the increase soft drink consumption and adolescent obesity in the USA.

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Issue 162

ADDOLORATO and COLLEAGUES, Institutes of Internal Medicine, Catholic University of Rome, L.go A. Gemelli 8, I-00168, Rome, Italy. g.addolorato@rm.unicatt.it studied the effects of moderate amounts of diff1

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Issue 162

CROWE and COLLEAGUES, Department of Human Nutrition, University of Otago, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand conducted a double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized clinical trial was to determine whether homocysteine lowering with a B vitamin supplement affec1

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Issue 159

Bartali B and colleagues,  Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA. benedetta.bartali@yale.edu  studied whether a low serum concentration of micronutrients is1

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Issue 158

LANHAM-NEW, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, Surrey, UK. s.lanham-new@surrey.ac.uk  has reviewed (40 references) optimal diets for healthy bones.

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Issue 157

FLAGG, The University Hospital, Cincinnati, OH, USA reviewed [45 refs] dietary guidelines for kidney stones (urolithiasis).

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Issue 142

SANCHEZ-MORENO and others, Nutrition and Neurocognition Laboratory, Jean Mayer USDA-Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, Boston, MA 02111, USA, csanchezm@if.csic.es, have studied the be1

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Issue 140

GALAN and colleagues, Departement de Biologie Integree, CHU de Grenoble, 75003 Paris, France, JArnaud@chu-grenoble.fr, have investigated the determinants of selenium levels in blood.

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Issue 138

RIVLIN, Strang Cancer Research Laboratory and Department of Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY 10021, USA, rivlinr@yahoo.com, has discussed the question whether garlic is an altern1

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Issue 134

RAY and co-authors, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD, USA, have found that low selenium levels and low carotenoid levels predict deaths amongst older women.

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Issue 120

LIYANA-PATHIRANA and SHAHIDI, Departments of Biology and Biochemistry, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL, A1B 3X9, Canada, have studied the antioxidant activities of soft and hard wheat and the way they are affected by stomach acid.

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