Nutrition Reviews: Conversations with the Authors

In North American countries, synthetic folic acid (FA) is overconsumed by pregnant women, and uncertainty exists about its potential unintended health effects. Because the metabolism of FA is different than that of other folate forms, it may modulate disease risk differently. In this episode, Dr. Taren speaks with Dr. Emanuela Pannia and Dr. Rola Hammoud, authors from this month's featured article...

This episode, Dr. Taren speaks with Dr. Maiara Cristina Lima and Dr. Débora Kurrle Venske from University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil. Their article is a systematic review on the effects of the ketogenic diet (KD) in children and adults with pharmacoresistant epilepsy on cognitive function. Join us for this conversation.

Dietary carotenoid intake is associated with vitamin A status and healthy visual and cognitive function in early life. To date, however, only limited population-level data on the concentrations of carotenoids in human milk or infant blood have been available to assess the dietary exposure of infants to carotenoids. This episode, Nutrition Reviews Editor in Chief, Dr. Douglas Taren, speaks with Dr....

Despite producing sufficient food for the global population, the growing prevalence of food insecurity in developed countries is cause for concern. The millions of metric tons of food wasted each year could be used instead to drastically lower rates of food insecurity and address food sustainability. This episode, we speak with Amanda Grech from the School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The U...

Previous epidemiological studies have shown an association between racial discrimination and health outcomes in specific populations, such as Black, Asian, and Indigenous individuals living in the United States, Australia, and Canada as well as in Latin American and European countries. Most of these studies have a focus on interpersonal racial discrimination, which is mainly investigated by measur...

Diet influences the aetiology of 7 of the 10 most globally prevalent Non-Communicable Diseases. Most individuals do not have a diet that adheres to guidelines for the prevention of disease. Nutrition care has been shown to be an effective way of reducing biomarkers of diabetes, cardiovascular disease (CVD), and excess body weight. However, the cost-effectiveness of nutrition care within primary ca...

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) manifests with systemic inflammation, oxidative stress, and gut dysbiosis, resulting in metabolic disorders and elevated rates of cardiovascular disease–associated death. The root vegetable beetroot (Beta vulgaris rubra) deserves special attention because it is a source of several bioactive compounds, such as nitrate, betaine, and betalain, and has shown beneficial eff...

Herbs and spices are recommended to increase flavor and displace salt in the diet. Accumulating evidence suggests herbs and spices may improve risk factors for cardiometabolic diseases. In this episode we speak with Kristina Petersen, who co-authored this paper on a review of human clinical trials and studies on the effect of herbs and spices on risk factors for cardiometabolic diseases.

Children in care (CiC) have often experienced trauma and, as a result, are at high risk for poor health outcomes. It is imperative that human-service stakeholders provide trauma-informed health services and interventions. However, little is known about how health promotion is addressed in the standards and guidelines for CiC. Join us this episode where we speak with Rachael Green, co-author of thi...

This episode we speak with Jamie Baum, PhD the Director for the Center for Human Nutrition within University System Division of Agriculture and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Food Science. She, with co-author Sam Walker, wrote a narrative review on eggs as an affordable source of nutrients for adults and children living in food-insecure environment.  Food insecurity affects an...

This episode we speak with Sarah Costello at Société des Produits Nestlé S.A, Nestlé Research, Lausanne, Switzerland. She, with co-authors, Eveline Geiser, and Nora Schneider published a review on nutrients for executive function development and related brain connectivity in school-aged children. Among other factors, their research highlights the influential effect of nutrition and diet on these n...

This episode we speak with Dr. Jasmine F. Millman at Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Hematology, Rheumatology, Graduate School of Medicine, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa. She, with co-authors, Shiki Okamoto, Taiki Teruya, Tsugumi Uema, Shinya Ikematsu, Michio Shimabukuro, and Hiroaki Masuzaki published a review examining findings from recent studies regarding the impa...

This episode we speak with Kalliopi Gkouskou and Aristides Eliopoulos from the Department of Biology, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.  They published, with co-authors, Maria Grammatikopoulou, Ioannis Vlastos, and Despina Sanoudou, a review focused on published evidence linking genetic variants to the responses associated with some of the mos...

This episode we speak with Lesley Andrade from the School of Public Health and Health Systems at the University of Waterloo in Canada.  She published along with her co-authors, Kirsten Lee, Allison Sylvetsky, and Sharon Kirkpatrick a rapid review on Low-calorie sweeteners and human health. We will be able to dive deeper into why this was the situation and what motivated them to work this port...

This episode we speak with Chessa Lutter from RTI International and Laurence Grummer-Strawn from the World Health Organization Department of Food Safety and Nutrition about their paper in the August 2021 issue of Nutrition Reviews. Their paper is review about the complementary feeding with infants and young children 6 to 23 months of age. Their review identified 12 topics relevant for updating glo...

This episode we speak with Selina Cox and Kevin Whelan from the Department of Nutritional Sciences at King's College London about their paper in the June 2021 issue of Nutrition Reviews. Their paper is review on the role of food additive emulsifiers and critical assessment of the current estimations of exposure to emulsifiers. Join us for this conversation.

This episode we speak with Bo Ekstrand from Chalmers University of Technology about their paper in the June 2021 issue of Nutrition Reviews. This narrative review provides an overview of the role of diet in 5 key areas of brain function related to mental health and performance, including: (1) brain development, (2) signaling networks and neurotransmitters in the brain, (3) cognition and memory, (4...

This episode we speak with Anne Lehner and Dr. Nicole Bender about their paper in the May 2021 issue of Nutrition Reviews . Their paper was a systematic review and meta-analysis on the impact of omega-3 fatty acid DHA and EPA supplementation in pregnant or breast-feeding women on cognitive performance of children. Join us for this conversation.

This month we go to The Netherlands and speak with Anouk Willems from the Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences (GELIFES) – Neurobiology, University of Groningen and the Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences, Applied Research Centre Food & Dairy, Leeuwarden and Dr. Gertjan van Dijk who is also form the University of Groningen to discuss their paper on the Effects of m...

This episode provides the backstory for the development of the Comprehensive Nutrition Gap Analysis (CONGA) developed by the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) and UNICEF to better measure the number of children who are not meeting their nutritional needs.  The development and use of CONGA are presented in a special supplement issue of Nutrition Reviews.    Dr. Ty Be...

This episode is our first to highlight a Nutrition Review’s supplement.  Dr. Teruo Miyazawa was the special guest editor for the proceeding of the 8th International Conference on Nutrition and Aging. Dr. Miyazawa is a Professor at Tohoku University and he provides how advances in nutritional sciences are helping extend healthy lifespans.  The conference supported by ILSI Japan also provi...

This month we have the pleasure of speaking with Drs. Conrad Zach from William and Mary and Dr. Nicole Blackstone from Tufts University about how food waste effects not only the environment but also nutritional status and food security. Their insightful review provides not only evidence for people to reduce food waste but also in the podcast they provide practical examples for how to do it.

This episode is a discussion with Dr. James Dorling who is at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.  He along with co-authors from Pennington, Tufts University, Duke University and Washington University in Saint Louise provided a review on the effects of caloric restriction on human physiological, psychological, and behavioral outcomes with a special focus on re...

This episode we speak with article authors Dr. Rosemary Dall, Dr. Deeptha Sukumar, and Dr. Deborah Clegg about their article "The implications of vitamin D deficiency on COVID-19 for at-risk populations" to determine the current knowledge about the risk of COVID-19 development for populations at risk for vitamin D deficiency, including individuals living with overweight and obesity, those of older...

This episode we speak with Sarah Shaw, Senior Research Assistant and PhD student, and Dr. Christina Vogel, Principal Research Fellow, at the MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit,  University of Southampton. Their paper is a systematic review aimed to determine how product placement strategies, availability, and positioning, in physical retail food stores located in high-income countries, influenc...