weight management
13 Sep 2024
--- Nutrition has the capacity to either facilitate or hamper a person’s physical recovery. A new study looking into the nutrition-related risk factors among postsurgical youth athletes found that many don’t consult...
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Beyond The Headlines: Growing US dietary herbal supplement market, US adult obesity rates exceed 40%
13 Sep 2024
--- This week in nutrition news, the American Botanical Council (ABC) published its latest report on the US herbal dietary supplements market. Meanwhile, Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) revealed that the adult obesity...
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13 Sep 2024
--- By collaborating with ModifyHealth, people across the US can order medically tailored meals prescribed by Nourish’s registered dietitians directly through the company’s food as medicine platform. The companies...
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13 Sep 2024
--- UK NGO Obesity Health Alliance (OHA), alongside 88 other stakeholders, has shared an open letter with the nation’s newly elected prime minister Keir Starmer, asking him to act upon his proposed planning system reforms...
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12 Sep 2024
--- With vegetarians and flexitarians looking for ways to optimize their protein intake, innovation to make the macronutrient accessible, nutritious and enjoyable is fiercely advancing. Food Ingredients First sits down with...
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12 Sep 2024
--- Researchers reveal that the food environment, specifically digital food ordering in restaurants and free food samples in retail stores, significantly impacts the healthiness of people’s food choices. Ordering food...
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12 Sep 2024
--- Consumer and customer concerns over animal rights and welfare, sustainability, climate and health are driving growth in the plant-based supplements and nutraceuticals spaces. Meanwhile, industry professionals highlight that...
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11 Sep 2024
--- A new report by the Access to Nutrition Initiative (ATNI) investigates three Nutrient Profile Models (NPMs) — the Health Star Rating (HSR) used in Australia and New Zealand, the Nutri-Score used in some EU countries...
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11 Sep 2024
--- A well-constructed low-carbohydrate diet can meet and even exceed people’s nutrient needs, according to a new modeling study. As these eating patterns are growing popular to support overall health and manage or reverse...
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10 Sep 2024
--- Danone subsidiary Nutricia reveals it has reformulated its core medical nutrition tube-feeding range, Nutrison, with a higher plant-based protein content at the 46 annual European Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition...
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09 Sep 2024
--- Coordination and appropriate technical and programming support are vital to humanitarian organizations’ response to global emergencies. The Global Nutrition Cluster (GNC) aims to overcome these critical needs by...
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09 Sep 2024
--- As food insecurity among US households grows, organizations and anti-hunger activists urge to strengthen nutrition programs and expand access to all families in need. At the time of a food security survey, almost 42% of all...
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06 Sep 2024
--- Industry experts predict that consumer interest in natural ingredients is here to stay. Lycored, Pharmactive, CarobWay and Ayana Bio tell us that a growing understanding of ingredients’ efficacy and their impact on the...
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05 Sep 2024
--- Diet-tracking applications using Artificial Intelligence (AI) are gaining popularity, but experts warn of persistent information logging concerns. We continue our conversation on this topic with Dr. Juliana Chen, dietitian,...
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05 Sep 2024
--- Ultima Health Products, a manufacturer of sugar-free electrolyte hydration powders, and Nutrition21, an Everwell Health company, are partnering to formulate and launch a new hydration beverage, Crave Killer. It is a tropical...
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05 Sep 2024
--- Increased consumption of cruciferous vegetables lowers blood pressure better than root and squash vegetables, according to a crossover trial. After two weeks of consuming around 300 g daily of these vegetables (e.g.,...
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05 Sep 2024
--- South Korea-based food and ingredients producer Daesang touts the health benefits, sweetness and its company’s production capacity for its Sweevero Allulose sugar reduction solution. Daesang reveals that the ingredient...
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04 Sep 2024
--- Precision fermentation player, 21st.Bio, obtains self-affirmed generally recognized as safe (GRAS) status for its animal-free beta-lactoglobulin ingredient, BLG Essential+. The company’s customers can now enter into...
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03 Sep 2024
--- Nutrition-tracking smartphone applications developed through artificial intelligence (AI) require improvements in accuracy, finds a new study conducted at the University of Sydney, Australia. Some persistent concerns include...
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03 Sep 2024
--- Researchers suggest making it mandatory for businesses to provide calorie-free menus alongside menus with calories to accommodate people with eating disorders who may find seeing calorie information on menus challenging. The...
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